News in Exile (WBAI): Paul DeRienzo and Laurie Calhoun consider the al Zawahiri drone strike report. Discussion begins at 14:30 and lasts five minutes....
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Muslim Network News: The al Zawahiri Drone Strike and “We Kill Because We Can”
Imam Abdul Malik Mujahid and Laurie Calhoun discuss the Zawahiri drone strike and "We Kill Because We Can" on Muslim Network News - August 2, 2022. Drone discussion begins at 15:36 and lasts 15 minutes. https://youtu.be/sh1ZEQYuhIA
U.S. Hypocrisy on War Crimes
U.S. hypocrisy on war crimes is discussed by Laurie Calhoun from minutes 12 to 16:30 of this report on WBAI News with Paul DeRienzo....
12/30/21 Basir Bita on the Economic Crisis in Afghanistan
Scott interviews activist Basir Bita about the economic calamity that’s hit Afghanistan since the U.S. withdrawal this past summer. With the U.S. and IMF freezing Afghan government funds as well as widespread market corrections after the fall of the previous regime,...
The Graveyard of Empires ft. Conflicts of Interest Ep. 179
https://youtu.be/A5kCC6xTIYU The hosts of Conflicts of Interest, Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter join me to discuss the unfolding events in Afghanistan. We discuss myriad topics, including what a Taliban government might look like, why Afghanistan fell so quickly, what...
That Is Just Sad
Ghani and Abdullah both swear themselves in as president of Afghanistan and the "National Unity Government" in Kabul is dead. What's next, full scale war between the Tajiks and the Uzbeks? What a damned disaster.
Trump Says Willing to Leave Afghanistan
If a peace deal can be reached. And it's a peace deal with very few conditions: keep AQ and ISIS out and talk to Kabul about the future at some point. All carrot and no stick, essentially. Fine with me.
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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War
From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...
Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...