Tag: Afghanistan
We Can Now Stop Worrying About Our Kids Inheriting Bush’s War
It was the end of period three, the last of three classes in a row before I had a break.
The teaching assistant assigned to...
Here Are the 16 Republicans Who Voted to Block Afghan Refugees
Predictably, republicans and the corporate for-profit media pandering to them are tripping over themselves in piling on critiques of President Joe Biden's handling of...
White House Officials Say Trump Went Full Racist About Immigrants (TWEETS/VIDEO)
Donald Trump began his bid to buy the presidency with blatant dog whistling about immigrants. In the two-plus years since then, dog whistling has...
Rex Tillerson Accused Of Violating Child Soldiers Prevention Act (Video)
There was a time in the not-so-distant past when President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly was considered the sane one in Trump's...
Bowe Bergdahl Avoids Jail, Trump And His Minions’ Heads Explode (TWEETS/VIDEO)
Back in 2009, Army Private First Class Bowe Bergdahl was captured by the Taliban after walking off his post. He stayed in the Taliban's...
WATCH: Trump’s Afghanistan Speech Is Abysmally Lower In Ratings Compared To...
President Donald Trump failed in at least one aspect of his speech on troop increases in Afghanistan — he failed to garner more ratings...
Critics Decry Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy As ‘Wishful Thinking’ (TWEETS)
President Donald Trump laid out his strategy for a path to victory in Afghanistan, including a plan to increase U.S. troop presence in the...
On Afghanistan: Trump Will Ask For ‘Trust’ From A Citizenry That...
President Donald Trump plans to ask for the American people's trust when it comes to his new policy in Afghanistan, CNN reported on Sunday...
Trump Drops Mother of All Bombs On Afghanistan – ‘ISIS Is...
The Trump administration has taken another dangerous step toward igniting the entire Middle East into full scale war.
CNN reports that earlier today the U.S....
Army Nixes Expulsion Of Green Beret Who Beat Afghan Authority For...
Confirmed as of Friday by NBC News, Sgt. 1st Class Charles Martland has been taken off of the Army's "removal list" for beating up...
SICKENING! Teenage Girl Brutalized For “Adultery” (VIDEO)
Today a young teenager died for adultery (also known as premarital sex). Her name was Rokhshana and she was stoned to death by her...
U.N. Accuses U.S. Of Potential War Crime
Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, Human Rights Chief for the United Nations, has called a suspected U.S.-led hospital bombing "inexcusable," and stated it may be...
Stoned BBC Reporter Too High To Report On Burning Pile Of...
While reporting on the drug situation in Afghanistan, BBC correspondent Quentin Sommerville accidentally got blitzed on the drugs which were burning behind him.
Sommerville ended...
A Fallen Soldier’s Heroic Parents Made Rachel Maddow Cry On Air...
If you watch The Rachel Maddow show most nights as I do, you may have seen her November 21 show in which she spoke...
Want The U.S. To Be Like Iran? Let The Radical Christian...
The words ?Iran? and ?Afghanistan? are synonymous with suppression of human rights, extreme suppression of religious freedom and extreme (* infinity) suppression of women....
Obama Sums Up The Depressing State Of The World In One...
He covered four different subjects in his 10-minute address, but President Barack Obama got his July 16 message across with this one sentence:
"We live...
Bergdahl ‘Outrage’ From The Right Is Proof Of Hypocrisy
The release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has exploded into what some are...
The Nature of War
Twenty-two years of mental tears
Cries a suicidal Vietnam vet
Who fought a losing war on a foreign shore
To find his country didn't...
Max Boot And The Imperial Mindset
Max Boot, one of the nation's leading chickenhawks, and someone who wrote in 2011, rather straightforwardly, that the United States should maintain its presence...
