Ray McGovern: War Criminals Welcome at Fordham Law?
August 24, 2021
John Rizzo, the CIA’s top lawyer, who gave the green light for torture, is dead. My former CIA colleague, John Kiriakou, who knew him well, has written a fitting “encomium.” Kiriakou knew Rizzo well and describes him as “the unapologetic godfather of the CIA’s torture program, a monstrous crime against humanity that he defended unabashedly […]
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Max Blumenthal interviews Scott Horton: Why We Should Blame Bush, Obama and Their Generals for Afghanistan’s Catastrophe
August 24, 2021
From The Grayzone: Scott Horton, author of Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, joins Max Blumenthal on his weekly Foreign Agents livestream to explain how Bush, Obama and Gen’s Petraeus and McChrystal destroyed Afghanistan while lying to the US public about their boneheaded and brutal strategies. Support The Grayzone at Patreon
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‘Reassuring’ Allies and Clients Breeds Dependency
August 23, 2021
There is a lot of chatter from the usual suspects about how Biden will need to “reassure” allies and clients following the withdrawal from Afghanistan, but that seems like a serious mistake. First, it’s not at all obvious that allies and clients genuinely need any reassuring, and when the US has made the mistake of […]
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CSPAN’s Book TV Interviews Scott Horton About Enough Already
August 22, 2021
Antiwar.com Editorial Director Scott Horton talks to Peter Slen of C-SPAN 2’s Book TV about his book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism at Freedom Fest in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Danny Sjursen and Matthew Hoh on Pushback with Aaron Maté
August 22, 2021
The great antiwar veterans and whistleblowers Danny Sjursen and Matthew Hoh joined Aaron Maté on Pushback to talk about the end of America’s war in Afghanistan.
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Ray McGovern on Exit From Afghanistan: An Intelligence Failure?
August 20, 2021
During a 7-minute interview today I was asked whether a lack of good intelligence accounts for the surprisingly rapid Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. I used the opportunity to ring some intelligence-related changes on what Aeschylus wrote so long ago: "In war, truth is the first casualty." When U.S. forces are engaged in war independent intelligence […]
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The Forever War Goes to Congo
August 20, 2021
The forever war has now apparently expanded to the Congo: US special operations forces have arrived in the east of the DR Congo to help in the fight against a feared jihadist militia enjoying “sanctuary” in the region’s nature parks, US and Congolese sources said Wednesday. The fight is against an insurgent group called the […]
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Conflicts of Interest: Hawks’ Boast of Obsessive Anti-China Paranoia as Basis for Policy
August 20, 2021
On COI #151, Kyle Anzalone explains how Biden’s China policy is being formed by officials who boast about being Sino-paranoid. Biden’s new Air Force Secretary said he was “obsessed” with China and was hoping to “scare” the CCP. The delusions of key Biden officials is creating an increasingly anti-American bond between Russia and China. The […]
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Scott Horton on the Afghan Withdrawal: Fox Business Channel
August 19, 2021
Antiwar.com Editorial Director Scott Horton was a guest on Kennedy Nation of Fox Business Channel discussing American withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Guess Who’s The Taliban’s Biggest Weapons Supplier?
August 19, 2021
The lightening-fast Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has left billions of dollars of US weapons scattered around the country for the taking. And this doesn’t just mean rifles or handguns. After 20 years of fighting them, the US has turned into the Taliban’s biggest weapons supplier. But the US arms merchants got paid… Reprinted from The […]
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