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Liz Cheney lied about her role in spreading the discredited CIA "Russian bounty" story
May 17, 2021 15:16US Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) played the key role in forming an alliance with pro-war Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee to repeatedly defeat the bipartisan anti-war minority to prevent any meaningful changes promised by former US President Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign to put an end to the U.S. posture of Endless War.
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Biden isn’t ending Afghanistan war, he’s privatizing it: Special forces, Pentagon contractors, intelligence operatives will remain
May 13, 2021 09:25Over 18,000 Pentagon contractors remain in Afghanistan, while official troops number 2,500. Joe Biden will withdraw this smaller group of soldiers while leaving behind US Special Forces, mercenaries, and intelligence operatives — privatizing and downscaling the war, but not ending it.
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Washington war party creates another organization to promote endless wars
May 11, 2021 18:52After 20 years of U.S. deaths and destruction in Afghanistan, the US administration ordered a withdrawal. Most Americans backed the decision to stop at least one endless war, but the bipartisan War Party in Washington is horrified.
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End of an era? Afghanistan is now graveyard of contractors, too
May 09, 2021 12:58With the withdrawal of the remaining 3,600 troops in Afghanistan by September, attention is also on the nearly 17,000 contractors on the U.S. payroll there, 6,147 of whom are American citizens.
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Dishonesty of Biden’s Afghanistan pullout vow
Apr 27, 2021 08:13US President Joe Biden, in announcing an ostensible end to the US war in Afghanistan, continued to pay eloquent lip service to progressive causes while maintaining the implied status quo.
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Biden's drone wars
Apr 21, 2021 16:57Talk of peace in Afghanistan, Yemen, the streets of the U.S., is not coherent while waging wars with drones.
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As Biden plans withdrawal, analysis shows Afghan war cost at least 241,000 lives and $2.26 trillion
Apr 18, 2021 16:57What Biden did not admit is that the United States and its allies, with all their money and firepower, were unable to vanquish the Taliban, who currently control about half of Afghanistan and are positioned to control even more in the coming months without a ceasefire.
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Biden to withdraw all combat troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11
Apr 14, 2021 16:31US President Joe Biden will withdraw American combat troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, declaring an end to the nation’s longest war and overruling warnings from his military advisers that the departure could prompt a resurgence of the same terrorist threats that sent hundreds of thousands of troops into combat over the past 20 years.
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Get out of Afghanistan
Apr 13, 2021 16:50US political and military leaders are allergic to admitting failure no matter how overwhelming the evidence of that failure may be. An entire generation of politicians and officers has been involved in selling the war with misleading and false claims of progress.
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Biden plans Afghanistan train wreck
Apr 06, 2021 14:30Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both increased the number of American personnel in Afghanistan before reducing them. Moreover, Biden, despite joining his predecessor in criticizing “endless wars,” never committed to implementing the peace accord. Withdrawing quickly would be the only proper response, ending American involvement in Afghanistan’s endless war.