Not since The Berlin Airlift (1948–1949) of humanitarian aid into West Berlin has the U.S. military undertaken an airlift on the magnitude of the withdrawal of U.S. citizens, third-country citizens, and Afghan allies out of Kabul after the collapse of the U.S. puppet government in Afghanistan. The Kabul airlift is already the most successful withdrawal … Read more
Above: Aboard an evacuation flight from Kabul. MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell continues his excellent commentary taking the pro-war media, who were complicit in lying us into the “forever wars” in Afghanistan and Iraq and keeping us there for 20 years, for misrepresenting the American evacuation from Kabul and arguing that the U.S. needs to stay. O’Donnell … Read more
The media to a large extent has been a complete failure in covering the Taliban victory in Afghanistan after twenty years of Donald Rumsfeld’s “Forever Wars.” The cable jockeys have actually trotted out the Neocon war monger architects of the Forever Wars from the Project For a New American Century (PNAC), the George W. Bush … Read more
After spending a day attacking President Joe Biden for the chaotic scenes in Kabul of Afghans desperate to leave the country, conservative opinion leaders who were quick to condemn President Joe Biden for failing to evacuate Afghan allies are now insisting that those Afghan refugees cannot be brought to the United States. This should not … Read more
Above: Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo with Taliban Political Deputy Mullah Beradar welcoming the launch of Afghan peace negotiations – without the government of Afghanistan. Damn, did this fool and his boss ever get played by the Taliban. Tom Boggioni reports, RNC busted for deleting campaign page touting Trump’s ‘historic peace agreement’ after Afghanistan … Read more