Afghanistan

By VT September l 6, 2021 U.S. Department of StateTo the Honorable Antony John Blinken, Secretary of State2201 C Street NWWashington DC 20520 Dear Secretary Blinken: On behalf of the Afghan villagers, I thank you for your courage to end America’s longest unwinnable war. This was a task that took much courage when considering the significant pushback and roadblocks placed by the various defense contractors, lobbyists and other war profiteers who have profited handsomely off the past twenty years and have spent billions on lobbying and influence to push their false pro-war narrative. It is quite clear that ending the war was in the best interests of both U.S. taxpayers and Afghan civilians. However, the United States needs to now make sure that the innocent Afghan civili...

Republicans are baying for Biden's impeachment or resignation as the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle turns lethal By STEPHEN BRYEN US President Joe Biden pauses while listening to a question from a reporter about the situation in Afghanistan in the East Room of the White House on August 26, 2021. At least 13 American service members were killed on Thursday by suicide bomb attacks near the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo: AFP / Drew Angerer / Getty ImagesAs this is written, at least 13 US troops including Marines and a Navy Medic have been killed in suicide bombings in and around the Kabul airport in Afghanistan attributed to an offshoot of the Islamic State. It may get worse, especially as many Americans will be left behind and tens of thousands of...

Biden's efforts to revive multilateral support for the US empire have been fumbled on many fronts By CHARLES XU On May 26, President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence agencies to produce “analysis of the origins of Covid-19” within 90 days. This move followed weeks of speculation surrounding the claim that the virus had escaped from a Chinese laboratory, usually identified as the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Having rightly rejected this claim for more than a year as a Trumpian conspiracy theory, centrist and liberal commentators in the West have breathed new life into the “lab leak” hypothesis, taking cues from allegations and claims made by US state leaders and corporate media. Meanwhile, Facebook and other social-media giants reversed their ...