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US troops return to Afghanistan as regime disintegrates
US troops return to Afghanistan as regime disintegrates

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The War in Afghanistan: The real “Crime of the Century” behind the Opioid Crisis
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Documents reveal CIA support for anti-Iranian propaganda film Argo
By Tom Secker | Press TV | June 22, 2021
The 2012 spy comedy-drama Argo was a massive critical and commercial success, and while the CIA’s support for the film was an open secret, until now the details on how and why the Agency helped to make Argo were hard to come by. In response to a FOIA request made in 2012, the CIA recently released over 200 pages of documents about their role in the making of Argo, providing a glimpse behind the curtain of why the CIA is working with Hollywood.
Documents reveal CIA support for anti-Iranian propaganda film Argo
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The NATO Summit: Front for Democracy or Return to the Cold War?
The NATO Summit: Front for Democracy or Return to the Cold War?
To drive home this point, Biden stressed during a press conference after the summit that article 5 of the North-Atlantic Treaty remains “rock-solid” and “sacred” 72 years after its adoption. Article 5 obliges all thirty member states to consider an attack on one of the allies as an attack on all of them. Yet, NATO invoked it only once in its history, and this in support of the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
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The final communiqué of the present NATO summit underscored that article 5 can now also be invoked as a reaction to aggression in space and cyberspace.
Dear President Biden: End Your Co-Belligerent Backing of Israeli War Crimes, by Ralph Nader
Bought-And-Paid-For: Biden’s Long History Pandering to the Israeli Lobby
While Democrats accused Donald Trump of being a Russian agent, they don’t seem to care that Biden is a bought-and-paid-for agent of the Israeli lobby.
Biden’s Long History Pandering to the Israeli Lobby
In 2018 the US Was at War With Uyghur Terrorists. Now It Claims They Don’t Even Exist
In 2018 the US Was at War With Uyghur Terrorists. Now It Claims They Don’t Even Exist
Dumbrill seemed to agree, noting that many Uyghurs in Xinjiang see the extremist jihadists as their primary worry, not government forces, of whom some Uyghurs speak fondly. “The police presence aside, people lead fairly ordinary lives here with the same kinds of hopes and dreams that people anywhere else would have as well,” he told MintPress, criticizing the foreign coverage.
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In order to make U.S. support for the Afghan forces less obvious, Saudi Arabia was utilized as a middle man. A wealthy Saudi construction firm heir named Osama bin Laden became a key organizer of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan, quietly taking U.S. money and weapons while loudly denouncing the “decadence” of Western society and calling for a return to Salafist Islamic society.
Caleb T. Maupin, Mintpress News.
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