Tag Archives: Afghanistan
Now that the War Is Over: A Man-Made Crisis, The Afghan People Face Freezing and Starvation, I Am Livid, Dominik Stillhart
“It’s so infuriating because this suffering is man-made. Economic sanctions meant to punish those in power in Kabul are instead freezing millions of people across Afghanistan out of the basics they need to survive. The international community is turning its back as the country teeters on the precipice of man-made catastrophe.”
How Corporations Won the War on Terror, by William Hartung
“To put such a figure in perspective, the $75 billion in Pentagon contracts awarded to Lockheed Martin that year was significantly more than one and one-half times the entire 2020 budget for the State Department and the Agency for International Development, which together totaled $44 billion.”
Rep. Barbara Lee, Who Cast Sole Vote After 9/11 Against “Forever Wars,” on Need for Afghan War Inquiry
“Let us not become the evil we deplore.” And with those words, Oakland Congressmember Barbara Lee rocked the House, the Capitol, this country, the world, the lone voice of more than 400 congressmembers.
DN! Afghanistan Faces Future Under Taliban as U.S. Withdraws and Drone Strikes Continue to Kill Civilians
As the last U.S. forces leave Afghanistan, ending the longest war in U.S. history, we go to Kabul to speak with Danish Afghan journalist Nagieb Khaja, who was once kidnapped by the Taliban and later embedded with them on a reporting assignment. He has been investigating Sunday’s U.S. drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians, […]
Updates: Afghanistan, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, by Women Against Military Madness
“Unless something changes, military skirmishes will continue between Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Hamas in Palestine on the one hand, and the U.S. and its allied client-partners on the other, and may develop into a devastating new war in the Middle East.”
Hedges: The Collective Suicide Machine and the Fall of Kabul
The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable.
Chris Hedges: What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
“The publication of classified documents is not yet a crime in the United States. If Assange is extradited and convicted, it will become one.”
The Wounds of War, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan with Kathy Kelly
Kathy Kelly speaks on The Wounds of War, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan with Kathy Kelly Kathy Kelly will also be speaking at the East Side Freedom Library on Friday, January 21: Tim Arango, The New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad from 2010 to 2017 noted that many people he had spoken with in Iraq said […]
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The Generals’ Long Con on Afghanistan, by Maj. Danny Sjursen
“I, for one, doubt that I’ll ever again trust the assertions and promises of most generals. And I’m not in bad company.”
The Enemy Within, by Chris Hedges
“The impeachment of Trump, despite the enthusiasm of the liberal elite, is mostly cosmetic. The entire political and governmental system is corrupt.”
Military Service: Homeland Security or Empire Building? talk by Ann Wright, Peacestock 2019
Is what we are doing outside the United States really protecting us?
How America’s Wars End (Messily), by Danny Sjursen
Count on this: the end of the American military mission in Afghanistan will be unfulfilling and likely tragic.
An American Tragedy: Empire at Home and Abroad, by Maj. Danny Sjursen
As a child myself, educated in public schools that peddled the dangerous myth of American exceptionalism, I never imagined a day when my government would separate refugee children from their parents…
A Veterans’ Anti-War Movement Takes Root at Peacestock, by Danny Sjursen
Social media activism has got to be replaced with holding signs, and standing in the rain [in Minnesota in the snow and cold, and both have been done by these vets]; joining Facebook groups replaced by joining Veterans for Peace and About Face (both).
Majorities of U.S. veterans, public say the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, Pew Research
Among veterans, 64% say the war in Iraq was not worth fighting considering the costs versus the benefits to the United States, while 33% say it was.
No War on Venezuela; MPAC on Syria
Troops Home Now – Out of Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and Off the Borders!
Minnesota Peace Action Coalition Statement on Trump’s Troop Withdrawal Plans
It’s clear the question is not “how” the troops will be brought home, but whether they will be brought home at all.
Minneapolis Protests: NO TO WAR
Created by CircleVision, a video from 2010 that is also true today.
Chris Hedges: The Soldier’s Tale
“Pat Tillman showed me I could resist the indoctrination”
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