Tag Archives: Afghanistan

US trained and armed Afghan security forces are joining ISIS-K, which makes the US ‘withdrawal’ from Afghanistan look more like an [...]

Afghanistan: Between Pipelines and ISIS-K, the Americans Are Still in Play
November 11, 2021
By M. K. Bhadrakumar Global Research, October 24, 2021Indian Punchline 22 October 2021 The Moscow meeting of ten regional states and the [...]

Taliban Is the Winner at Moscow Conference
October 24, 2021
By M. K. Bhadrakumar Global Research, October 20, 2021Indian Punchline 19 October 2021 The United States regretted its [...]

Afghanistan: Moscow Meeting Is a Landmark Event
October 20, 2021
The time and money it took to give Kabul to the Taliban could have been used to help struggling Americans. By Tom Engelhardt October 17, 2021 [...]

The $8 Trillion Cost of Failure
October 17, 2021

The agency prioritized the evacuation of Zero unit members and their families even as many vulnerable U.S. employees and human rights activists [...]

The CIA’s Afghan Proxies, Accused of War Crimes, Will Get a Fresh Start in the US
October 10, 2021
Washington has sized up the seamless potentials of the emergent situation to plot its return to the centrestage by exploiting the impasse in [...]

Taliban Back in the American Swing Chair
October 10, 2021
By Michael Welch, Prof Michel Chossudovsky, Prof. John Ryan, and Prof Rodrigue Tremblay Global Research, October 08, 2021 “But again, the [...]

Defeat or Victory? The War on Afghanistan (2001-2021)
October 8, 2021
By Shane Quinn Global Research, October 07, 2021 Two decades ago on 7 October 2001 the United States, backed by its close allies [...]

Twenty Years Ago: US Invasion of Afghanistan
October 7, 2021

By M. K. Bhadrakumar Global Research, October 06, 2021Indian Punchline 5 October 2021 While India’s External Affairs Minister S. [...]

“Humanitarian Aid” for Afghanistan: UK Fires the First Shot in the New Great Game
October 6, 2021
The media’s latest ahistorical freak-out over Afghanistan is further evidence of its de facto merger with the U.S. national security state [...]

Corporate Media Stirred Global Terror Hysteria to Push Postwar Hostility Toward New Afghan Government
October 4, 2021
By Eric Margolis Global Research, September 28, 2021EricMargolis.com 27 September 2021 Afghanistan’s US-run government was the world’s [...]

Afghanistan: Where’s the Cash?
September 28, 2021
By Matthew Ehret-Kump Global Research, September 27, 2021Matthew Ehret’s Insights 23 September 2021 With the recent pledge by [...]

The Great Chessboard: Will a Renewed U.S. ‘Operation Cyclone’ Threaten Afghanistan’s New Silk Road Future?
September 27, 2021

By Kelly Denton-Borhaug Global Research, September 24, 2021TomDispatch 23 September 2021 As a religious studies professor, I know a parable [...]

A Parable of (All-American) Violence
September 24, 2021
By Edward Curtin Global Research, September 20, 2021 In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the 20th anniversary of the [...]

9/11 and Afghanistan Post-Mortems: Lessons in Safe Logic
September 20, 2021
By Dr. Zlatko Hadžidedić Global Research, September 15, 2021Modern Diplomacy The fall of Kabul to the Taliban, pre-negotiated with the US [...]

Why the Taliban Had to Change. “Regime Change” Pre-negotiated with Washington?
September 15, 2021
By Patrick Martin Global Research, September 13, 2021World Socialist Web Site *** A New York Times analysis of the August 29 US drone strike in [...]

Kabul Drone Strike Was CIA-Military Murder
September 13, 2021

We may never know how many innocent people US forces killed during the War on Terror – and that’s intentional By Josh Marcus September 12, [...]

Forgotten victims of 9/11: The overall civilian death toll could very well exceed 1 million people
September 13, 2021
By Dan Cohen Global Research, September 11, 2021MintPress News 7 September 2021 *** Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen explains a little known [...]

How the US Trained the Afghan Mujahideen to Produce War Propaganda
September 11, 2021
We may never know the full contours of the whole riddle inside an enigma when it comes to 9/11 and related issues By Pepe Escobar Global [...]

9/9 and 9/11, 20 Years Later
September 10, 2021
By M. K. Bhadrakumar Global Research, September 09, 2021Indian Punchline 8 September 2021 All Global Research articles can be read in 51 [...]

Taliban Get a Government!
September 9, 2021

What the U.S. did to Afghanistan and its people is not a series of mistakes or good intentions gone awry, but crimes. And there’s still no [...]

No, ‘The Longest War’ in US History Is Not Over
September 9, 2021
A wiser, better-traveled and social media-savvy Taliban will strive to avoid the many dire mistakes of its 1996-2001 rule By Pepe Escobar [...]

What to expect from Taliban 2.0
September 9, 2021
By John Pilger The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 should be called what it was – an imperialist war launched under the guise of a fight [...]

US Military a Killing Machine! & How The Taliban Went From Ally to Enemy
September 9, 2021
It actually appears to be the rule, not the exception, that presidents attach political strings to the military aid that they provide to their [...]

The Biden-Ghani Call Might be More Damning than the Trump-Zelensky One
September 8, 2021

A monumental defeat of imperialism in Central Asia will have a long-term impact on Washington and its NATO allies. By Abayomi Azikiwe Global [...]

Afghanistan, Corporate Media and the Declining Image of the United States
September 7, 2021
By M. K. Bhadrakumar Global Research, September 06, 2021Indian Punchline 4 September 2021 *** At the daily foreign ministry briefing in Beijing [...]

Who Controls Afghanistan? The Panjshir Revolt “Becomes Footnote”. The US, China, Russia, Iran, Turkey Powerplay
September 6, 2021
MSNBC rails against the “fantastically corrupt elite” on the ground that ruined the Afghan mission, but the real corruption was our [...]

We Failed Afghanistan, Not the Other Way Around
September 6, 2021
The US military knew there was going to be an attack at the Kabul Airport last week. By Jim Hoft Global Research, September 06, 2021Gateway [...]

New Text Messages Reveal 2nd Battalion 1st Marines Were Given “a Countdown” before Kabul Airport Bombing – It Started About Two Hours Out – They Are Now Being Silenced
September 6, 2021

By Pepe Escobar September 06, 2021 — “Information Clearing House – It looked like everything was set for the Taliban [...]

Why the Taliban still can’t form a government
September 6, 2021
By Moazzam Begg September 06, 2021 — “Information Clearing House – In the summer of 2001, I moved with my [...]

I witnessed US war crimes in Afghanistan – for all its victims justice is due
September 6, 2021
By John Pilger September 06, 2021 — “Information Clearing House“ – As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western [...]

John Pilger: The Great Game of Smashing Nations
September 6, 2021
By Steven Sahiounie Global Research, September 05, 2021 After the chaotic exit from Afghanistan, many experts predict the withdrawal of US [...]

Packing Up: US to Leave Iraq and Syria?
September 5, 2021

By M. K. Bhadrakumar Global Research, September 03, 2021Indian Punchline *** At the weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday by the Foreign [...]

Afghanistan: To Recognise, or Not to Recognise, that’s the Question
September 3, 2021
By Scott Ritter Global Research, September 03, 2021RT Op-Ed 29 August 2021 All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by [...]

US Reputation Is in Tatters, It’s Time to Bring Those Responsible for Afghanistan Disaster to Account
September 3, 2021
To recover politically Biden and his team must do something kinetic that will be cheered on by the public, which means risky or particularly [...]

Afghanistan Recessional: Will It Lead to a War with Iran?
September 3, 2021
By Junaid S. Ahmad Global Research, September 02, 2021 *** “Democracy” seems to be under threat again, this time in Kabul. We are told that [...]

The Fall of Kabul, “The Fall of Democracy”. Hubris of Western Plutocracies
September 2, 2021

By Prof. Marjorie Cohn Global Research, September 02, 2021 *** President Joe Biden’s decision to end the Afghan war – one that should never [...]

As Biden Threatens More War, Don’t Forget the Afghanistan Invasion Was Illegal
September 2, 2021
By Shane Quinn Global Research, September 02, 2021 *** The retired American General Stanley McChrystal, who previously oversaw US-NATO [...]

US Covert Operations in Afghanistan, Support for Extremists
September 2, 2021
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark Global Research, September 01, 2021 *** No more profoundly disturbing statement was needed. In the dying days of the [...]

Droning Disasters: A US Strike on Kabul
September 1, 2021
The 2001 US invasion was bound to devastate the country and the Afghan people. By Clive Stafford Smith Global Research, September 01, 2021Al [...]

What Did the US Get Wrong About Afghanistan?
September 1, 2021

By Rep. Ron Paul Global Research, August 31, 2021The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity *** Sunday’s news reports that the Biden [...]

Afghanistan: A Tragically Stupid War Comes to a Tragic End
August 31, 2021
By Peter Koenig Global Research, August 31, 2021 *** All flags are on half-mast in the US of A. The cause are the 13 American soldiers killed in [...]

Kabul Is Not Saigon. Afghanistan: Drug Trade and Belt and Road
August 31, 2021
By Chris Cole Global Research, August 31, 2021Drone Wars UK All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the [...]

UK Planning for Strikes Against ISIS in Afghanistan Says Head of Royal Air Force
August 31, 2021
What CACI reveals about the feedback loop between military contractors and think tanks. By Sarah Lazare Global Research, August 30, 2021In These [...]

Military Contractor CACI Says Afghanistan Withdrawal Is Hurting Its Profits. It’s Funding a Pro-War Think Tank.
August 30, 2021

By Zero Hedge Global Research, August 30, 2021Zero Hedge 29 August 2021 All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by [...]

Viral Infographic Reveals the Shocking Amount of Military Hardware Biden Handed to the Taliban
August 30, 2021
By Alan MacLeod Global Research, August 27, 2021MintPress News 25 August 2021 *** “Holy cow, I was living like Scarface…I was paying out [...]

“I Was Living Like Scarface”: The Ludicrous Costs of the War in Afghanistan Revealed in New Documents, Testimonies
August 27, 2021
By Michael Jansen Global Research, August 27, 2021The Jordan Times 26 August 2021 *** The political future of both US President Joe [...]

Political Future of Biden, Taliban Depends on What Happens to Afghans
August 27, 2021
By South Front Global Research, August 27, 2021South Front 26 August 2021 *** The Taliban are finally beginning to consolidate power in [...]

Video: Taliban Forming Government, Steadily Consolidating Power
August 27, 2021

By Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Global Research, August 26, 2021Brown University *** Since invading Afghanistan in [...]

U.S. Costs to Date for the War in Afghanistan, in $ Billions FY2001-FY2022
August 26, 2021
The Afghan militants promised Tehran the Shia will be protected. If they break that promise, Iraqi paramilitaries vow to defend their fellow Shia [...]

Afghanistan: How Iran and Its Allies Are Relying on Soleimani’s Deals with the Taliban
August 26, 2021
By Patrick Martin Global Research, August 26, 2021World Socialist Web Site 19 August 2021 All Global Research articles can be read in 51 [...]

And So It Begins Again: The Media Recycles Afghanistan War Lies
August 26, 2021
I find it difficult to put my horror and outrage into words By Dr. Rudolf Hänsel Global Research, August 25, 2021 *** When I read the great [...]

Afghanistan Then – The Whole World Today
August 25, 2021

There still remain several variables that could continue to destabilize the country in the coming future. By Andrew Korybko Global Research, [...]

The Top Five Conflict Variables in Afghanistan
August 24, 2021