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
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
So I watched an interview on MSNBC in which the talking head asked Malcolm Nance, a US Intelligence expert on terrorist strategy, tactics, and ideology, if the fall of Kabul was an intelligence failure. Nance explained “No, it is not an intelligence failure.” (video not yet available). Nance posted on Twitter a shorter version of his … Read more
Watching the news this past week has been a flashback to April 1975, and the rapid advance of the North Vietnamese Army and their Viet Cong insurgency allies in South Vietnam on the capitol of Saigon. The South Vietnamese Army (ARVN) collapsed in the face of this lightening assault, and Saigon fell on April 30, … Read more