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Slavoj Zizek: The real reason why the Taliban has retaken Afghanistan so quickly, which Western liberal media avoids mentioning

The Western media tell us there can be several explanations for that. The first one is blatantly racist: the Afghan…

3 years ago

US may seize Afghanistan’s national reserves, but its threat to isolate Taliban is, indeed, ‘unmoored from reality’

As Taliban forces were on their final push to take the Afghan capital, the West was issuing threats of reprisals,…

3 years ago

Pay Taliban reparations? UK anti-war fruitcakes’ plan is an insult to the thousands of Afghans and Allies killed by Islamist thugs

There have been some poor decisions made about Afghanistan during the 20-year-long war but nowhere, no-how at no time has…

3 years ago

CNN reporter in Kabul mocked for clip saying Taliban fighters ‘seem friendly’ after some shout ‘death to America!’

Reporting live on-air from outside of the United States’ abandoned embassy in Kabul, CNN recorded a group of armed men…

3 years ago

WATCH: Taliban fighters fire warning shots outside Kabul airport as crowds of Afghans try to enter facility

Kabul airport, which saw chaotic scenes overnight and throughout Monday amid the hasty evacuation of foreign troops, diplomats and their…

3 years ago

Biden blames Taliban’s success & last-minute evacuation from Afghanistan on failures of Ghani’s government

Biden came back to the White House from the presidential retreat at Camp David on Monday, for a special televised…

3 years ago

Banning American conservatives from social media and not the Taliban proves we don’t know who the bad guys are any more

In the years since 9/11 a political divide emerged within America that widened through the Obama years, continued to expand…

3 years ago

Will the Taliban seize or squander its moment now that it’s back in control of Afghanistan?

As its triumphant leaders swaggered into the presidential palace in Kabul, shocked Afghans and foreigners alike wondered, warily: ‘what kind…

3 years ago

‘World has gone Covid-mad’: Afghans fleeing Taliban need negative PCR test to board now-suspended commercial flights out of Kabul

Soon after the Taliban seized the Afghan capital on Sunday, hundreds of civilians began to pour into Kabul’s international airport…

3 years ago

US ‘failure’ in Afghanistan handed country to Taliban, Moscow says, claims American ‘hegemony’ declining as Russia & China on rise

President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy on the troubled Central Asian nation, Zamir Kabulov, told the Echo of Moscow radio station…

3 years ago