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Nexus X HumectressAfghanistan. After al-Qaeda terrorists attacked us on 9/11, brave warriors, special forces quickly deployed to defeat al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. They accomplished their mission rapidly and effectively. THAT is when they should have returned home. But the elite wanted to nation-build, getting us into a 20-year war with no […]
There are brain drains, and there are skin-in-the-game drains.
If the post-United States lacks a federal government altogether, we will probably end up looking something like ancient Greece.
If the post-United States maintains any kind of federal or confederal system, it will likely resemble something like the Holy Roman Empire.
There is a good number of threads on Quora discussing this idea. It is clear that pan-secessionist ideas are increasingly working their way into the mainstream and being discussed more seriously by a greater number of people from many different points on the political and cultural spectrum. Over […]
As the DOJ releases new video showing the horrific attack on the Capitol by MAGA supporters, the widow of a Capitol Police officer who died by suicide after the insurrection is now suing his alleged attacker. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber is joined by NYU law professor […]
While I have no doubt that Donald Trump would have no problem with becoming an Erdogan-like president for life if he could, even more dangerous are the right-wing plutocratic flunkies in the Republican Party like Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and others who want a […]
My main priority as far as US politics is concerned is to keep the Bush-era neocons and their allies or descendants from ever returning to power. Right now, we have three de facto political parties: the neo-Rockefeller Republicans (centrist Democrats), neo-Know Nothings (Trumpists/American Le Penists), and neo-Ted Kennedy […]
Kermit Warren is a hardworking grandfather and the head deacon of his church in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. After losing his home to Hurricane Katrina, Kermit managed to rebuild his life. Thanks to a dogged work ethic, frugal lifestyle, diligent saving, and a small inheritance, […]
By Lisa Beilfuss Barron’s New census data paint a picture of an older and more diverse U.S. where population growth is slowing, changes that have major economic and political upshots. The country’s population grew 7.4% over the past decade, according to 2020 census data released last week. That […]
By Ben Norton The leftist governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Bolivia have found a key strategic ally in Iran, the heart of the Axis of Resistance. Revolutionary socialist movements in Latin America are developing closer relations with anti-imperialist resistance forces in West Asia, building a united front […]
By Michael Puttré Discourse It was ‘mission accomplished’ by 2002, but then the U.S. embarked on a much bigger, and impossible, mission. The 20-year American-led experiment to turn a rogue state into a Western-style democracy has come crashing to the ground. There will be plenty of recriminations, and […]
For 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 […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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