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 RICHARD D. WOLFF Photograph Source: urban-museum – CC BY 2.0 Now that so many people have realized that the capitalist system is riddled with problems, they want a clear explanation about the functioning of the system. […]
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 […]
Book Review By Jim Miles (In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power. Alfred W. McCoy. Haymarket Books, Chicago. 2017) Reading “In the Shadows of the American Century” is […]
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 […]
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 […]
Health justice advocates gathered outside Pfizer Worldwide Headquarters in Manhattan on March 11, 2021, where they called on the pharmaceutical giant to share Covid-19 vaccine formulas and transfer technology to boost the global manufacturing of doses in […]