Final US soldiers pack up and prepare to leave Bagram Air Base after defending it for 20 years as Taliban sweep across Afghanistan where 2,312 American died and US military spent $816bn
Inflation is here and with it the possibility of an agricultural commodities supercycle. We've all seen inflation at the gas pump and the grocery stores, and heaven help you if you need to build something right now.
Even if "won," endless wars like our 20 year assault on Afghanistan would not benefit our actual national interest in the slightest. So why do these wars continue endlessly?
When interventionists and national security deep state hawks need to prolong what's already the longest war in in US history, who're they gonna call?...
Not willing to allow the world to witness another Vietnam-style emergency helicopter departure of American diplomats from an embassy under fire, the State Department on Tuesday ordered...
Interventionists are saying that U.S. forces need to stay in Afghanistan because otherwise that country will, once again, become a "haven" for anti-American terrorists.
A massive blaze broke out at a hospital in southeastern Baghdad, Iraq that was treating COVID-19 patients on Saturday, which left at least 82 people dead and 110 injured.
Interventionists are saying that U.S. forces need to stay in Afghanistan because otherwise that country will, once again, become a "haven" for anti-American terrorists.
Last week President Biden announced a "full" US withdrawal from Afghanistan – the longest war in US history – by the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the United States.
I first met Adrian Bonenberger in 2014, after he completed two tours in Afghanistan. He'd published Afghan Post, a painful epistolary memoir about his experiences.
President Biden has announced that 2,500 U.S. troops and another 7,000 from NATO will start returning home from Afghanistan in May, with the full withdrawal set to be completed in time for the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
If you could mash-up all that is disgusting, evil, hypocritical, and idiotic in the US Congress, the resulting conglomeration would look a lot like House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD).
In December 2019, the Washington Post published an article detailing many of the lies that U.S. officials have issued throughout their entire war on Afghanistan.
For those who are tempted to praise President Biden for supposedly standing up to the Pentagon and the CIA by announcing a pull-out of the remaining U.S. troops in Afghanistan, resist those temptations.
Since President Biden is breaking the US-Taliban peace deal by pushing back the May 1st withdrawal deadline to September 11th, the Taliban said it is ready to attack US troops again and turn the final months of Washington's almost twenty-year-old w