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Nexus X HumectressFor close to 7 years, Yemen has been entangled in a devastating civil war that’s left more than 5 million citizens on the brink of starvation. In 2015, the Saudi’s instituted a blockade, which has only exacerbated the conditions and have prevented much needed resources from reaching the […]
This commentary is surprisingly sensible. Lawrence O’Donnell must be planning on retiring soon. Lawrence O’Donnell says no one knows how to run the American evacuation from Afghanistan without the same chaos and dishonor we experienced in Vietnam.
Rick Scott, the Republican senator from Florida who ran a company that committed the largest Medicare fraud in American history, suggested on Monday that the senate should consider using the 25th Amendment to remove President Joe Biden from office. This was Scott’s response to the situation unfolding in […]
–Marjorie Taylor Greene goes on Steve Bannon’s show and says she’s working on articles of impeachment against Joe Biden for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan
By Branko Marcetic The Jacobin In Afghanistan, as in Vietnam and Iraq, US elites sold us a vision of the world in which the United States alone has not just the power but the duty to forcibly reshape the world how it sees fit. They have again proven […]
A reader writes: “Keith, have you noticed how American sentiments around the war in Afghanistan seem to cut across all political affiliations? It reminds me of how Brexit cut across party lines in the UK. Against the war are the majority of the public (at least, that’s my […]
Congress has a 25% approval rating. Who cares what they have to say? Most of them supported this war and have been wrong about almost everything.
It’s crazy to have everything and still want everything while fighting like hell to make sure everyone else has nothing
This is why American needs to stay out of Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, Somalia and all other countries.
Team Rising discusses CNN’s Clarissa Ward coverage of the Taliban on the ground in Afghanistan and the backlash she’s faced.
Lucas Kunce, national security expert and Missouri Senate candidate, explains why Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban was inevitable.
Kim Iversen examines the increase in fire arms sales over the past year.
Alyssa Farah breaks down the eight biggest mistruths of President Biden’s defense of his Afghanistan withdrawal strategy.
Ryan Grim analyzes why the Taliban was able to take over Afghanistan so quickly.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to President Biden’s speech on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 46 percent of voters approve of Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House while 42 percent disapprove, and 12 percent said neither. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farrah, and Kim Iversen discuss. This survey was conducted online within the […]
“I know my decision will be criticized. But I would rather take all that criticism than pass this decision on to another president of the United States, yet another one, a fifth one.” Joseph Biden. That’s about the most presidential thing I’ve heard in a good long time.
Krystal and Saagar talk with the author of the Afghanistan papers about the lies that were told in the years leading up to the fall of Kabul
Saagar looks back at the fall of Saigon to counter the media and show what the real lesson is from the Vietnam war is now that Afghanistan has fallen
Krystal reminds the liberals who glorified George W. Bush what his real legacy is and she looks at the fresh consequences of revisionist history
Krystal and Saagar react to the shocking new poll that shows Governor Gavin Newsom could potentially be recalled by California voters
Krystal and Saagar discuss the latest vaccine updates, including the news that the Biden admin plans on making booster shots widespread
Krystal and Saagar respond to the shameless flip flopping in MAGA world after Biden followed through on Trump’s promise to end the war in Afghanistan
Krystal and Saagar look at Joe Biden’s withdrawal speech and dismantle the media’s lies about the war in Afghanistan.
By Keith Preston Because I am a frequent and often strident critic of the Left, I am often mistaken for a conservative. In fact, I have had right-wing readers of my books and essays express surprise that I am not nearly as far to the right as they […]
Krystal and Saagar analyze President Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal speech, how MAGA world is reacting, the covid vaccination updates, California’s recall election, George W. Bush’s legacy, lessons from Saigon, an untold history of the Afghanistan war, and more! Timestamps: Biden: 0:00 – 21:33 MAGA: 21:34 – 37:45 Vaccines: 37:46 […]
Leave it to Bill Lind, the world’s leading expert on fourth-generation warfare, to succinctly describe what happened in Afghanistan. The only thing I disagree with Bill on is that the decision to leave Afghanistan wasn’t Biden’s or Trump’s alone. It was based on the prevailing consensus among ruling […]
More of the usual dumbshittery from FOX (Neocon Central). If the neocons and the overlords of the military-industrial complex had their way, the US would be in Afghanistan forever, just like the US has never left Germany or South Korea. Fox New senior strategic analyst Gen. Jack Keane […]
From Australian television. Sky News host Catherine McGregor says in Afghanistan the state has “collapsed precipitously” and “sadly” that is outside the scope of a middle power like Australia to extract those allied personnel who are now at “some risk” from the Taliban. “Shooting your way into KIA […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals Afghanistan has fallen. The U.S. government’s nearly two-decade-long, multi-trillion-dollar “nation-building” effort in the troubled, tribal country may now have nothing to show for itself. “President Joe Biden and other top U.S. officials have been stunned by the pace of the […]
I consider the anti-Vietnam War movement to be one of the most important if not the most important of any movements in US history. If there had been no American Revolution, today the US would be more or less like other similar countries that eventually got their independence […]
By Jorge Fitz-Gibbon New York Post A prominent Afghan filmmaker recorded her dramatic flight from Kabul as Taliban forces moved in on Sunday — and begged for help on social media, saying the militants were “coming to kill us.” “The Taliban entered Kabul, unfortunately, and we were detained,” […]
It’s a chilling image – dozens of people so desperate to escape Afghanistan that they cling to a US plane as it moves along the runway.
Disturbing video shows large crowds of Afghans trying to escape and forcing the Kabul airport to shut down. At least seven people have been reportedly killed during the airport chaos.
CNN’s Clarissa Ward is in Afghanistan after the government collapsed and the Taliban took over the country.
Former Navy Seal Erik Prince discusses the US evacuation of Kabul embassy on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.’
The good news for liberals is that the US is becoming more diverse ethnically and otherwise. The good news for conservatives is that many Hispanics are becoming the “new white ethnics,” comparable to the descendants of Southern and Eastern Europeans who started moving rightward in the aftermath of […]
US involvement in Afghanistan actually began with Jimmy Carter, not George W. Bush. Under the tutelage and influence of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the US began arming the mujahideen who flocked to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets, and who then conquered the country falling the Soviet withdrawal and the subsequent […]
Alyssa Farah reacts to President Biden’s lack of involvement in the crisis at the U.S southern border.
Kim Ives, English language editor for Haiti Liberté, explains the resignation of the judge leading the investigation into the assassination of Haitan President Jovenel Moïse.
Kim Iversen makes the case for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Hill Correspondent, Reid Wilson, breaks down the biggest takeaways from the first data from the 2020 U.S. census.
Wendell Potter, president at Center for Health and Democracy, discusses the United States healthcare ranking compared to that of other wealthy countries.
Ryan Grim breaks down the state department’s hypocritical support of international press freedom while attempting to prosecute Julian Assange.
Team Rising discusses White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s growing celebrity status and fan base.
A haunting photo of 640 Afghan refugees who ran onto a US military plane, desperate to escape. The plane’s capacity is only 150. The military kept the refugees on the plane & took them to Qatar. The capacity of this jet is beyond what is safe, the pilot […]
The US puppet government had a US-trained army that outnumbered the Taliban 4 to 1, and simply walked off the job as soon as the US retreated. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss the situation in Afghanistan as U.S. troops withdraw and the Taliban takes over.
Excellent. These are the kinds of protests we need more of. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to the protests outside Raytheon, a defense contractor that makes weapons, in Rhode Island.
Krystal and Saagar go through the new census data that outlines demographic trends and the failures of Democrats across the board
Krystal examines a shocking and revealing segment on Fox News that shows exactly how the wealthy elite views American workers
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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