Foreign Service officer Anne Smedinghoff was sent to the country to show how we were “winning.” She never came home. By Peter Van Buren Global Research, It’s common this time of year to write summary articles […]
By South Front In the year 2019 the world was marked with a number of emerging and developing crises. The threat of terrorism, conflicts in the Middle East, expanding instability in South America, never-ending military, political […]
Precious few today have ever heard of America’s Moro War fought from 1899 to 1913By Michael Chester -December 18, 20192908 4 Mike’s Notes: It has been said that those who don’t learn from history, are doomed to repeat it. […]
Officials repeatedly told the public “progress” was being made, but new documents show they knew that wasn’t true. by: Andrea Germanos, “The metrics were always manipulated for the duration of the war,” one unnamed National […]
by VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Jayel Aheram – CC BY 2.0 Noam Chomsky recently celebrated his 91st birthday. As an homage to Noam, I spent the day with one of his lesser-known books—The Backroom Boys (1973). The book […]
Nineteen years into America’s longest war, Afghanistan is in a worse state than at any time since the U.S. military invasion. by: Danny Sjursen I can’t help but surmise that the original sin of America’s […]
by: TED RALL Photograph Source: Jayel Aheram – CC BY 2.0 “In ten years or so, we’ll leak the truth,” the Dead Kennedys sang. “But by then it’s only so much paper.” But it might just […]
By Joshua Cho The Washington Post’s publication of the “Afghanistan Papers” (12/9/19) unveiled over 2,000 pages of unpublished notes of interviews with US officials involved in the Afghanistan War, from a project led by the Office […]
The current hearing will examine allegations that US troops and intelligence operatives tortured, raped and abused Afghan prisoners between 2003 and 2004. by: Brett Wilkins By 2006, at least 100 prisoners had died in US […]
By Tho Bishop Global Research, Today the Washington Post published a bombshell report titled “The Afghanistan Papers,” highlighting the degree to which the American government lied to the public about the ongoing status of the war in […]