Tag: Afghanistan
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Are False Stories About Russia/Afghanistan Pushing for War?
The Doomsday Clock is now at 100 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to midnight since its inception in 1947. The people of the world are trapped in-between the 6,000 active and armed nuclear weapons of the United States and Russia, and further surrounded by climate change, pandemic, and exploitative neo-liberal economic…
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Inconvenient Facts: U.S. Killed Russians in Syria and Afghanistan
Afghan rebels were killing Soviet soldiers, downing Soviet helicopter gunships, and inflicting deep wounds on the Soviet self-image. The CIA had done what it set out to do: to give the Soviets their Vietnam.
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Shutdown Government, Expand Military: * Afghan War After 12 years * Africa Attacks * U.S. Global Bases
Similarly, in Libya and Somalia, again violence and military force is proving not to be a solution to terrorism. We have to understand the root causes. And many times these root causes are local and regional issues we have a poor grasp of — and sometimes those root causes are grievances against U.S. policies. In…