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 […]
Iconic filmmaker and long-time supporter of the Palestinian people Ken Loach has been expelled by the UK Labour Party. The veteran director announced his expulsion on his Twitter account on Saturday to the shock and […]
Nazi occupation forces killed four Palestinian young men during a raid in Jenin at the dawn of Monday, Quds News Network reported. Local sources told QNN that Nazi undercover units raided Jenin in the early […]
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 […]
BY: Common Dreams Staff, Common Dreams More than 700 people were confirmed dead Sunday and many thousands more injured and left homeless due to the large earthquake which struck Haiti on Saturday. The Haitian government has declared […]