“Despite the pressure from the hawks, Biden actually appears to be ending this war.” JAKE JOHNSON President Joe Biden reportedly intends to stick with his self-imposed August 31 deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: The U.S. Army – CC BY 2.0 America’s 20-year misadventure in Afghanistan is finally over. The original purpose of our use of force, to destroy al-Qaeda after September 11, was legitimate. Our […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Michael Evans – Public Domain In 2001 the Taliban blew up the giant 1,500-year-old Buddhist statues in Bamiyan, central Afghanistan to show their defiance of the world and their contempt for all religious beliefs aside […]
BY PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Sgt. Isaiah Campbell – Public Domain The humiliating defeat of the American Empire in Afghanistan – replete with “near identical images” of frantic evacuation helicopters atop a US Embassy as in […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The victory of the Taliban in Afghanistan is looking unstoppable as they capture the big provincial cities of Kandahar, Herat and Ghazni without meeting effective resistance from Afghan government forces. Afghan […]
BY MICHAEL HUDSON President Biden put a popular flag-waving wrapping on America’s forced withdrawal from Afghanistan in his 4 PM speech on Monday. It was as if all this was following Biden’s own intentions, not a […]
BYMarjorie Cohn, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES Human Rights and Global Wrongs It’s true that the Trump administration signed a “peace deal” with the Taliban — something that eluded both George W. Bush and Barack Obama […]
BYChris Walker, Truthout President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Wednesday the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, bringing to an end almost 20 years of U.S. occupation in the country, albeit with some potential […]
https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2021/8/16/us_war_in_afghanistan_taliban_takeover BY: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! As the Taliban says it will soon declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after seizing control of the country, we discuss their history with award-winning journalist Ahmed Rashid, author of […]
BYSharon Zhang, Truthout Progressive lawmakers are calling on the U.S. to accept Afghan refugees as the Taliban has taken over the country, forcing at least thousands of residents to attempt to flee. After the Afghanistan government […]