US foreign policy
Our 20-year Reign of Terror, full circle
In new book, Spencer Ackerman shows how the post-9/11 Global War on Terror gave us neither the peace or stability it promised
By Daniel Larison
August...
Peter Bergen is Mistaken About Bin Laden’s Strategy
His plan was always to provoke an overreaction
by Scott Horton *
Posted on August 22, 2021
Famous journalist and terrorism expert Peter Bergen is making a...
Biden Is Right to End the War in Afghanistan
Now our obligation is to those Afghans living with the consequences of our four decades of intervention.
By Peter Certo
August 18, 2021
Photo: Shutterstock
The scenes from...
What’s going on in the Washington establishment with Biden?
By Themistoklis Tzimas (*)
Something strange - or not so much - is happening in Washington, from what we see.
CNN hammers President Biden every...
Biden’s Afghanistan Policy Counts on War-Weariness of Americans
While the media is going after Biden for the withdrawal, polls show most Americans don't think the war was worth fighting
Posted on August 20,...
A ‘Strategic Apocalypse’ in Afghanistan: A Seismic Shift, Years in the...
By Alastair Crooke
Aug. 20, 2021
A huge geo-political event has just occurred in Afghanistan: The implosion of a key western strategy for managing what Mackinder,...
Trump the great friend of Russia
American missiles & choppers abandoned to Taliban by troops in Afghanistan could fall into Russia’s hands, ex-president Trump says
Aug 18, 2021
High-tech American hardware left...
Afghanistan: Drawing the lessons
By Herman Michiel
17 August 2021
We saw Taliban troops parade in the presidential palace in Kabul, from which President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad. The largely...
Afghan president flees the country as Taliban move on Kabul
By AHMAD SEIR, RAHIM FAIEZ,
TAMEEM AKHGAR and JON GAMBRELL
Aug. 15, 2021
AP Photo/Rahmat Gul
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday,...
Stop the War Coalition: Statement on Afghanistan
The disaster now unfolding in Afghanistan is the consequence of a twenty-year long failed military intervention. The responsibility rests with the US, British and other...