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How elite US institutions created Afghanistan’s neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million from his country

Ben Norton·September 2, 2021

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

Gareth Porter·August 30, 2021

Biden’s popular and long overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan triggered a big media meltdown that exposed its de facto... Read More

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Propaganda Today: How US created Taliban & al-Qaeda, and behind Afghanistan war profiteering

Ben Norton·August 24, 2021

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

Aaron Maté·August 22, 2021

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·August 21, 2021

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton of the Moderate Rebels podcast discuss the US military pullout from Afghanistan with... Read More

Biden isn’t ending the Afghanistan War, he’s privatizing it: Special Forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain

Jeremy Kuzmarov·April 16, 2021

Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller... Read More

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How the US military subverted the Afghan peace agreement to prolong an unpopular war

Gareth Porter·March 16, 2021

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

Dan Cohen·November 20, 2020

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’

Anya Parampil·July 11, 2020

Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with investigative journalist Gareth Porter about his latest report “How the Pentagon... Read More

How the Pentagon failed to sell Afghan government’s bunk ‘Bountygate’ story to US intelligence agencies

Gareth Porter·July 7, 2020

Another New York Times Russiagate bombshell turns out to be a dud, as dodgy stories spun out by... Read More

US claim of ‘Russian Bounty’ plot in Afghanistan is dubious and dangerous

Aaron Maté·June 30, 2020

Max Blumenthal breaks down the “Russian bounty” story’s flaws and how it aims to prolong the war in... Read More

Washington’s tall tale of Iranian-Al Qaeda alliance based on questionably sourced book ‘The Exile’

Gareth Porter·May 19, 2020

A disinformation campaign aimed to justify the assassination of Qassem Soleimani by painting him and Iran as willing... Read More

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La contrarrevolución cultural cubana: raperos y artistas apoyados por el gobierno de EE.UU. ganan fama como “catalizadores de las protestas”

Cómo medios financiados por EEUU incitaron un golpe de estado en Nicaragua

Cómo USAID, fachada de la CIA, creó el aparato mediático anti-sandinista en Nicaragua

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