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From Russia, with (Taliban) Love
Post Date: 2021-10-22 08:56:29 by Ada
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An Afghan bombshell in Moscow today: 'the country's reconstruction must be paid for by its military occupiers of 20 years.' Facing high expectations, a five-man band Taliban finally played in Moscow. Yet the star of the show, predictably, was the Mick Jagger of geopolitics: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Right from the start, Lavrov set the tone for the Moscow format consultations, which boast the merit of “uniting Afghanistan with all neighboring countries.” Without skipping a beat, he addressed the US elephant in the room – or lack thereof: “Our American colleagues chose not to participate,” actually “for the second time, evading an ...
Greenwald: Civil Liberties Are Being Trampled By Exploiting "Insurrection" Fears
Post Date: 2021-10-18 12:42:57 by Ada
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When a population is placed in a state of sufficiently grave fear and anger regarding a perceived threat, concerns about the constitutionality, legality and morality of measures adopted in the name of punishing the enemy typically disappear. The first priority, indeed the sole priority, is to crush the threat. Questions about the legality of actions ostensibly undertaken against the guilty parties are brushed aside as trivial annoyances at best, or, worse, castigated as efforts to sympathize with and protect those responsible for the danger. When a population is subsumed with pulsating fear and rage, there is little patience for seemingly abstract quibbles about legality or ethics. The ...
‘Everyone here hated the Americans’: Rural Afghans live with the Taliban and a painful U.S. legacy
Post Date: 2021-10-06 09:15:51 by Ada
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SINZAI, Afghanistan — The white flags flutter in the apple orchards of this serene hamlet ringed by oatmeal-colored mountains. They mark the precise spots where U.S. airstrikes killed Afghans. In the village center lies the destroyed shell of a building that once housed shops; down the road is a mangled, rusted car. There are white flags there, too. Together, they’re reminders of the legacy the United States has left in many rural areas across Afghanistan. “Everyone here hated the Americans,” said Zabiullah Haideri, 30. His shop was shattered by an airstrike in 2019 that killed 12 villagers. “They murdered civilians and committed atrocities.” In Kabul and ...
The 2001 Anthrax Deception
Post Date: 2021-10-04 08:19:30 by Ada
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An Overview of the Book by Graeme MacQueen If the notion that, ‘truth always lies 180 degrees opposite to the direction pointed by the corporate media’ is not yet a modern maxim, it should be. A useful corollary might be added to the effect that, ‘the depth to which an event is consigned to the establishment memory hole is inversely related to its actual significance’. Such an event is the occasion of the October, 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States, for coming close upon the heels of those of 9/11, the anthrax attacks of early October seemed to stamp with the imprimatur of destiny itself the coming of a new age, a new ‘clash of civilizations’, and, of ...
Pakistani Eyewitnesses Say Operation to Take Out Bin Laden in 2011 'Staged'
Post Date: 2021-09-30 09:56:30 by Ada
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ABBOTTABAD, Pakistan (Sputnik) - Almost 11 years since Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda*, was killed in the Operation Neptune Spear, eyewitnesses and Pakistani journalists that investigated the events told Sputnik they still doubt whether the whole raid was staged as there is no confirmation bin Laden was at the compound that day. One of the Pakistani journalists who covered the operation on the ground, Suhail Abbasi, told Sputnik that he believes what happened in Abbottabad in May 2011 was nothing more than a performance to save Washington's face in front of the global community and American citizens. "We are all sure that bin Laden was not in the building. But his family ...
Why Are We So Afraid to Punish the Generals?
Post Date: 2021-09-28 08:38:18 by Ada
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WIESBADEN, Germany -- Gen. Mark Milley, then Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, speaks with participants of the 23rd annual Conference of European Armies held in Wiesbaden, Germany. The conference was hosted by Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of U.S. Army Europe, and focused on the current security environment, how to win in a complex world and freedom of movement throughout Europe. Since the early post-9/11 days when a frightened America looked to the military to calm their fears, we have lionized any who wore the uniform as heroes, none more than general officers. Now 20 years on, the ugly, unintended consequences of such blind faith are starting to emerge in ways that pose an increasing ...
The Elites are Building the the GARDEN OF BIDEN (PRISON).
Post Date: 2021-09-27 08:48:58 by noone222
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Poster Comment:Fuck Biden, Fuck Harris, Fuck Fauci, Fuck Milley, Pelosi, Schumer, ABC, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, (excluding Tucker and Laura), and every so called authority worldwide that has lied to us for our entire lives !
Will US military failures touch off a ‘revolution from below’?
Post Date: 2021-09-23 08:07:15 by Ada
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The civ-mil divide and the health of our volunteer forces are of urgent concern right now, with blame pointed at the top. The month of August was a roller coaster of emotion for the war-weary American public and her beloved all volunteer military. As Afghanistan reverted to rule under the Taliban, emotions like disgust, frustration and disappointment, sadness, and anger were common among veterans who served and survived America’s longest war. Historically speaking these perspectives are not unique. Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, who served as an artillery officer in the army, documented his nation’s defeat in the Crimean War in the mid-1800s in his Sevastopol Sketches. And while ...
Pompeo: Biden admin seems 'deeply desirous' of making Afghan crisis go away
Post Date: 2021-09-19 21:37:01 by BTP Holdings
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argues the Biden administration's credibility was 'damaged deeply' by their handling of the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Judge Jeanine: This is how terrorists are made
Post Date: 2021-09-19 11:44:38 by BTP Holdings
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'Justice with Judge Jeanine' host slams Joe Biden as the 'Liar in Chief' and the 'real threat' to America #FoxNews #JudgeJeanine
Mark of the Bill Gates Beast !
Post Date: 2021-09-19 06:29:23 by noone222
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Poster Comment:The outrageous number of 6's associated with the va666ines can make one dizzy ! Don't take it. There should be a bounty on Bill Gates and the other embarrassment that is beyond my ability to even say his name without placing "fuck" before it.
Where Was All The Investigative Journalism On US Airstrikes The Last 20 Years?
Post Date: 2021-09-18 10:22:21 by Ada
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The Pentagon has finally admitted to the long-obvious fact that it killed ten Afghan civilians, including seven children, in an airstrike in Kabul last month. In an article with the obscenely propagandistic title “Pentagon acknowledges Aug. 29 drone strike in Afghanistan was a tragic mistake that killed 10 civilians,” the New York Times pats itself on the back for its investigative journalism showing that the so-called “ISIS-K facilitator” targeted in the strike was in fact an innocent aid worker named Zemari Ahmadi: “The general acknowledged that a New York Times investigation of video evidence helped investigators determine that they had struck a wrong target. ...
Day of reckoning for the media handmaidens of war
Post Date: 2021-09-13 09:55:14 by Ada
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It’s clear now that the invasion of Iraq and the 20-year GWOT couldn’t have happened without the Fourth Estate’s complicity. In this installment of our special series, “9/11 at 20: A week of reflection,” we take a look at the mainstream media’s hive-like mentality in the wake of the attacks and how this made them willing tools for the Bush Administration and the military in the run-up to the Iraq War and beyond. In December 2011, a decade after the 9/11 attacks, elite journalists David Ignatius and Diane Rehm had an extremely brief, on-air mea culpa moment. President Obama had just announced the official end of combat operations in Iraq (that wouldn’t ...
Al Qaeda leader, believed dead, appears in video on 9/11 anniversary
Post Date: 2021-09-12 18:42:54 by Ada
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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri appeared in a video released Saturday — the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks — raising questions over his rumored death. The US-based SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks jihadist groups online, tweeted about the existence of the video, saying Zawahiri made comments about events that occurred after speculation first emerged that he’d died. ”Amid rumours of his death, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri shown in a new 60-minute video, this time offering some evidence that he is not dead – particularly, reference to events after December when rumors of death surfaced,” SITE ...
Chris Hedges: We Americans kill with an inchoate fury. The evil we do is the evil we get
Post Date: 2021-09-12 11:49:31 by Ada
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and host of RT’s On Contact, a weekly interview series on US foreign policy, economic realities and civil liberties in American society. He’s the author of 14 books, including several New York Times best-sellers. The hijackers who carried out the attacks on 9/11, like all radical jihadist groups in the Middle East, spoke to us in the murderous language we taught them. I was in Times Square in New York City shortly after the second plane banked and plowed into the South Tower. The crowd looking up at the Jumbotron gasped in dismay at the billowing black smoke and the fireball that erupted from the tower. There was no question ...
Who Won the War on Terror?
Post Date: 2021-09-12 02:39:49 by BTP Holdings
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Who Won the War on Terror? PAOLO PELLEGRIN / MAGNUM PHOTOS September/October 2021 Since 9/11, the “war on terror” has been central to U.S. policy. September/October 2021 “This battle will take time and resolve,” President George W. Bush declared on September 12, 2001. “But make no mistake about it: we will win.” For much of the next two decades, pursuing victory in the “war on terror” would serve as the central fixation of American foreign policy. Yet even as the United States invaded two countries and launched drone strikes in others, as governments around the world erected vast security structures and attackers plotted with mixed success to ...
9/9 and 9/11, 20 Years Later
Post Date: 2021-09-10 08:33:59 by Ada
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It’s impossible not to start with the latest tremor in a series of stunning geopolitical earthquakes. Exactly 20 years after 9/11 and the subsequent onset of the Global War on Terror (GWOT), the Taliban will hold a ceremony in Kabul to celebrate their victory in that misguided Forever War. Four key exponents of Eurasia integration – China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan – as well as Turkey and Qatar, will be officially represented, witnessing the official return of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. As blowbacks go, this one is nothing short of intergalactic. The plot thickens when we have Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid firmly stressing “there is no proof” ...
America Forced to Rely on Qatar to Get Citizens Out
Post Date: 2021-09-10 07:15:10 by BTP Holdings
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America Forced to Rely on Qatar to Get Citizens Out More Westerners escaped Afghanistan on Thursday, as Qatar worked to allow them to leave the country after the US military’s departure. Meanwhile, the White House recognizes Qatar’s important part in getting Westerners out of the nation. Qatar Airways Will Conduct the Airlift According to the Press Association, about 100 to 150 Westerners will board a Qatar Airways aircraft from Kabul International Airport. Qatar is a vital ally in the campaign to get the surviving Americans out, according to White House press secretary Jen Psaki. According to the Associated Press, some Americans flew out of Kabul on a jetliner on Thursday. ...
White House blames paperwork for delay in flights leaving Afghanistan
Post Date: 2021-09-07 13:32:40 by Ada
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White House press secretary Jen Psaki blamed incorrect paperwork for holding up flights from Afghanistan. White House press secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged that about 100 American citizens are still in Afghanistan but wouldn’t say whether the State Department or the Taliban were responsible for holding up flights at Mazar-i-Sharif airport — blaming incorrect paperwork instead. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One as President Biden and administration officials traveled on Tuesday to view storm damage in New York and New Jersey, Psaki was asked if reports that 100 Americans remain in Afghanistan were accurate. “It’s just under that. I think the State Department has ...
Soldiers Are Losing Faith in Their Commanders
Post Date: 2021-09-06 08:32:02 by Ada
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During the founding of the United States, Pennsylvania earned the nickname “keystone” for its essential role—geographic, economic, and political—in winning American independence. Two and a half centuries later, Pennsylvania maintained its Keystone State status in the now concluded war in Afghanistan. In 2013, after the peak of the insurgency, state Adjutant Gen. Wesley Craig said that Pennsylvania endured “by far” the most National Guard deaths of any state. In the past two decades, according to tracker icasualties.org, the state has seen 93 U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan in addition to Guardsmen, along with more than 400 wounded. What do these ...
Trump Published a Video Montage of Biden’s Failure
Post Date: 2021-09-05 19:32:11 by BTP Holdings
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Trump Published a Video Montage of Biden’s Failure Last week, former President Trump published an ad entitled “Failure.” This ad showed a video montage criticizing the Biden administration over the hasty withdrawal of U.S. forces and the swift takeover of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Republicans: Biden is not up for the presidency and now people are seeing the consequences This weekend, in a fundraising email, Republicans emphasized they told the public that Biden was not up for the presidency. Now, the people are observing the disastrous consequences of Biden’s incompetence. Since Trump left the White House seven and a half months ago, the former president has been ...
Proof the Government Lied to You Over Afghanistan
Post Date: 2021-09-05 10:14:04 by BTP Holdings
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Proof the Government Lied to You Over Afghanistan After coming back from Afghanistan, a House member on the Intelligence Committee claimed that President Biden has death on his hands. This House member also stated the Democrat-led administration has indeed been deceiving the people of the United States. Throughout a discussion on Fox’s News Segment with Bret Baier, GOP Rep. Markwayne Mullin discussed his international trip. The Administration and Army are Lying Mullin told reporters the American government and Army were falsifying information about the circumstances American citizens in Kabul have been suffering. He also says they lied about the seeming simplicity of how ...
‘To this day I can’t sleep’: Moazzam Begg, tortured in Bagram and Gitmo, talks to RT after 20-year US war in Afghanistan ends
Post Date: 2021-09-03 10:45:43 by Ada
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Tortured by the US in Afghanistan’s Bagram prison and Guantanamo Bay, British-Pakistani author Moazzam Begg told RT of his ordeal and the vindictive, futile US ‘War on Terror’ that he says “destroyed” American soldiers too. Begg spoke with RT for the ‘Ghosts of War,’ a special project looking at the fallout of the US invasion and 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, which officially ended on Monday. I was begging to go to Guantanamo because what I had seen and witnessed in Bagram was so destructive, to this day I can’t sleep. Born in the UK to Pakistani parents, Begg had moved to Taliban-run Afghanistan with his family in July 2001. After the US ...
Conservatives Give Bush and Trump a Free Pass on Afghanistan
Post Date: 2021-09-03 09:13:51 by Ada
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The debacle in Afghanistan is all the fault of President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Barack Obama, says James Jay Carafano at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. It is not the role or purpose of the U.S. government or the U.S. military to intervene in another country under any circumstance. [Click to Tweet] Carafano is “a leading expert in national security and foreign policy challenges” and is Heritage’s “vice president for foreign and defense policy studies, E. W. Richardson fellow, and director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies.” In an article that originally appeared at 1945, where Carafano is a ...
Hundreds Evacuated Via Secret CIA Mission in Afghanistan
Post Date: 2021-09-03 07:36:51 by BTP Holdings
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Hundreds Evacuated Via Secret CIA Mission in Afghanistan As the Biden government hurried to organize a huge withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S. officials silently sent a message to U.S. citizens and at-risk Afghans (such as Afghan special forces). The message was to report to a secret CIA outpost outside Kabul to guarantee safe travel to the United States; this comes amid heightened threats of a terror incident on Kabul’s city airport. Many Afghan Special Forces Units Escaped Via the Base Hundreds of Americans and endangered Afghans, notable members of the Afghan special operations forces and their families, were successfully evacuated during the secret operation; this occurred ...
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