TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
15 years later, the US and its NATO allies still have troops in Afghanistan with no plans on leaving. We were told this was about 9/11 and Osama Bin Laden, but these were lies. So why are the troops still there? What was the war in Afghanistan really about? Michel Chossudovsky of the Centre for Read More…
New York cops have a person of interest they believe is responsive for the Chelsea dumpster bombing. His name is Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized citizen from Afghanistan. At this point very little is known about Rahami beyond his last known address in Elizabeth City, New Jersey. New Jersey State Police said he is wanted Read More…
Over half of 1.4 million guns U.S. shipped into Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11 are unaccounted for in DoD’s own records, watchdog discovers. The U.S. government has shipped over 1.4 million guns to Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11, according a new analysis by the U.K.-based watchdog Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), but the Pentagon is only Read More…
Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland said mission would be ‘temporary,’ but would not say how long it would last, citing ‘security reasons.’ More than a hundred U.S. troops were sent to Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan on Monday to continue fighting the Taliban, in the first deployment of forces to the area since the drawdown in 2014—offering another Read More…
Only weeks after the September 11, attacks, the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom and deployed troops in Afghanistan — starting a perpetual quagmire that would lay waste to the lives of Americans and Afghans alike. More than 2,300 troops dead, tens of thousands more mangled and traumatized, more than 11,000 innocent women and children turned Read More…
’15 years later, lives lost, billions spent…’ Despite a vow to withdraw thousands of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by 2017, President Barack Obama this week veered the opposite direction, widening the U.S. military’s role in the entrenched, 15-years-long conflict. The Washington Post reported on Thursday evening that the Obama administration’s new measures “authorize U.S. troops, Read More…