GUESTS Bilal Sarwary Afghan journalist based in Kabul. We go to Kabul for an update as the Taliban moves to secure control of Afghanistan. The group said Tuesday former government officials will not face retribution […]
GUESTS Matthew Hohsenior fellow with the Center for International Policy, disabled combat veteran and former State Department official. “The only thing more tragic than what’s happened to the Afghan people is that in a few […]
GUEST We speak with Washington Post investigative reporter Craig Whitlock, author of the new book “The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War,” which reveals how multiple U.S. presidents deceived the public about progress […]
GUEST Mariam Safifounding executive director of the Organization for Policy Research and Development Studies (DROPS) and the co-director of the Afghanistan Mechanism for Inclusive Peace. Zahra NaderPh.D. student in gender and women’s studies at York […]
BY RON JACOBS Photograph Source: U.S. Secretary of Defense – CC BY 2.0 Speculation abounds. The end of US-managed rule in the nation called Afghanistan has fueled a flood of warnings, blame, and just plain guessing about […]
Hundreds of people gather near a US Air Force C-17 transport plane at a perimeter at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, August 16th, 2021. Photo: AP/Shekib Rahmani Dear Readers, The rapid fall of Kabul […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: bluuurgh – Public Domain On August 15, the Taliban arrived in Kabul. The Taliban’s leadership entered the presidential palace, which Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had vacated when he fled into exile abroad hours […]
https://www.democracynow.org/embed/story/2021/8/17/afghanistan_azmat_khan BY: Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Investigative journalist Azmat Khan, who has reported extensively in Afghanistan, says President Joe Biden has not yet addressed the chaos unleashed by the collapse of the Afghan government. In remarks […]
BYJake Johnson, Common Dreams As the Biden administration faces criticism for not doing enough to assist those fleeing Afghanistan, an analysis released Monday showed that the roughly $19 billion the Pentagon budgeted for the U.S. occupation of the country […]
BYStephen Zunes, Truthout We must not allow the tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan to be used to rewrite history and teach the wrong lessons. The rapid fall of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan and the takeover of […]