Despite Afghan withdrawal pledge, US may find new ways to extend the war – Aaron Matè
Thought and Conduct – Beto Renteria
Biden’s Plan to Withdraw from Afghanistan and US Escalation with Russia – The Liam McCollum Show
TheAnarchast – Patrick Smith
Thanks to Everyone’s Orphan for the list.
Enough Already & Uighurs – Why Libertarian
Osama Bin Laden’s Strategy to Take Down the US – Bob Murphy
Conflicts of Interest #100 – Scott Horton Dismantles the War Party Narrative
Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Terrorism – Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
“With few exceptions, the tribe of academic scientists and hospital doctors which now controls our government has literally never heard such arguments [the unplanned order of thee market process]. Their worldview is a top-down one: they assume things happen because somebody ordains that things happen. Spontaneous order is a foreign concept to them. This is surprising, given that it is the essence of evolution, but when it comes to society they are in thrall to intelligent-design theories. They are political creationists.”
–Matt Ridley, “Britain Is in Danger of Repeating Its Post-War Mistakes”
Washington Post – The propaganda arm for the Defense industry quietly let’s us know who is behind the opposition to Biden’s Afghanistan troop withdrawal. Of course she is a professor at Harvard.
“Last week, the Washington Post ran an op-ed opposing President Joe Biden’s commitment to withdraw U.S. military forces from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021, by Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass and Meghan O’Sullivan, “professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, and the North American chair of the Trilateral Commission,” according to the Post. That bio, as originally published on Friday, omitted a crucial, and highly lucrative, position held by O’Sullivan: board member at Raytheon Corp, one of the top five arms makers in the world.
Raytheon, which has a $145 million contract to train Afghan Air Force pilots, is a major supplier of weapons to the U.S. military. In other words, weapons of war is Raytheon’s business and the end of America’s longest war almost certainly poses a threat to the company’s bottom-line.
O’Sullivan and the Post failed to note her role in the weapons business for which she was paid $940,000 in cash and stock between 2017 and 2019.”
WaPo quietly acknowledges op-ed author’s defense industry ties
I’m doing two events this Saturday: WRMEA and IRmep‘s End Support for Apartheid Israel Conference at 1:00 PM Eastern and a speech to the Washington LP later that afternoon in Seattle with Peter R. Quinones, Matt Kibbe, Angela McArdle and others.
Glenn Greenwald on the role the media played in propagating CIA disinformation to stop Trump from removing troops in Afghanistan.
More here
The Biden administration has gone back on its word to cease construction of Donald Trump’s border wall and the associated eminent-domain actions for property that stands in the way of that wall. Although candidate Biden promised to stop the wall and end the land-seizure lawsuits, President Biden seems to have forgotten. We know this because a federal judge has ordered a Texas landowner to surrender land at the border.
Reason magazine reports that during the campaign Biden told NPR, “There will not be another foot of wall constructed in my administration.” About eminent domain Biden further said, “End, end, end, stop, done, over. Not gonna do it. Withdraw the lawsuits. We’re out.”
Had he kept his word, he would have withdrawn the federal suit and prevented the judge’s ruling.
As a result, the landowner, Baudilia Cavazos, who rents some of his land, will be deprived of anticipated retirement income. He fought with the Trump administration over an earlier attempt to take his land for the wall.
The quick hoped-for improvements over the Trump years, even in matters of immigration, are not happening. Will they ever?
I started the old Weekend Interview Show on Radio KAOS 95.9 FM in Austin, Texas on April 12, 2003, three days after the fall of Baghdad. First up was Antiwar.com’s heroic Alan Bock.
Number 5,500 was of course with the Great Gareth Porter.
Full archives here and at YouTube.
