Trump against empire: is that why they hate him?
Trump was ideologically incoherent and crassly transactional. But the threat he posed to American empire and thus the... Read More
Afghanistan
A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?
US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight... Read More
How elite US institutions created Afghanistan’s neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million from his country
Before he stole $169 million and fled his failed state in disgrace, Afghanistan’s puppet President Ashraf Ghani was... Read More
Afghanistan collapse reveals Beltway media’s loyalty to permanent war state
Biden’s popular and long overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan triggered a big media meltdown that exposed its de facto... Read More
Propaganda Today: How US created Taliban & al-Qaeda, and behind Afghanistan war profiteering
The Grayzone’s Ben Norton launches his show Propaganda Today discussing US war profiteering in Afghanistan and how the... Read More
Anti-war veterans explain how US lost Afghanistan while leaders lied, profited
Anti-war veterans Matthew Hoh and Danny Sjursen on the reality of the war in Afghanistan that was kept... Read More
Inside US Afghanistan pullout, CIA opium ratline, pipeline conflict, new cold war
Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal·
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton of the Moderate Rebels podcast discuss the US military pullout from Afghanistan with... Read More
How US meddling arm Creative Associates International destabilizes Washington’s adversaries
With nearly $2 billion in US government contracts, Creative Associates International is a key instrument for Washington’s meddling... Read More
Biden isn’t ending the Afghanistan War, he’s privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain
Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller... Read More
How the US military subverted the Afghan peace agreement to prolong an unpopular war
Appointed in the final days of Trump’s presidency to remove all US troops from Afghanistan, Douglas Macgregor tells... Read More
VIDEO: Top Biden advisors Flournoy and Blinken promise smarter, more secretive permanent war policy
Biden’s likely pick for Secretary of Defense, Michele Flournoy, and his top foreign policy advisor, Tony Blinken, have... Read More
Calling out NYT “unprofessional” reporting on ‘Bountygate’
Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with investigative journalist Gareth Porter about his latest report “How the Pentagon... Read More
