Tag: Afghanistan

Joachim Hagopian, HOSPITALIZED SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LLOYD AUSTIN’S HEAD MAY ROLL

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Joachim Hagopian [Editor’s note: Russians Claim: Austin Dead In Ukraine. Report https://realrawnews.com/2024/01/russian-claim-austin-dead-in-ukraine/] US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization on January 1st resulting from a post-surgery complication from an elective medical procedure was kept quiet to even senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress. Not even Austin’s boss President Biden knew he was in the hospital. On Friday January 5th, Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Gen. Pat Ryder was forced to admit that the Pentagon was unaware its chief has been a patient all week long at Walter Reed National Military Center. Though unsure of…

William de Berg, Roll Over, Rocky!

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William de Berg “The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.” – David Rockefeller, Memoirs, 2003, p. 405. It was September 1991, the moment of President George H Bush’s address to the United Nations proclaiming a “New World Order”.[1]    The Western globalist elites were basking in the belief they had finally achieved their dream of conquering the world.   The Soviet Union, the postwar archenemy of the U.S., was in the process of dissolution, brought on by its…

Joe Olson, P.E., The ASHRAE Cargo Cult

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Joe Olson In his recent FewTube video, anthropologist Robert Sepehr describes the reaction of ignorant tribal societies when confronted by foreign, advanced technologies. While most pronounced in the tribes in Micronesia, by the arrival of allied forces, then overtaken by Japanese forces and finally recaptured by allies, and then abandoned.  Confused, the tribal societies then asserted their creation of these advanced technologies, claimed that they had created these products of civilization and that foreigners had stolen these gifts from their gods. The modern parallels are striking. The Cargo Cult Phenomena,…

Joachim Hagopian, A Retrospective Look at US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III

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Joachim Hagopian My freshman roommates at West Point, John Abizaid and Karl Eikenberry, ended up commanding generals in charge of losing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, then rewarded with membership to the notorious Council on Foreign Relations and US ambassadorships in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan respectively. Our alma mater, the famous brass factory on the Hudson since 1802, in recent decades is notorious for churning out cookie-cutter, rotten to the “Corps” leadership, disgracefully losing every American war since World War II by diabolical elite design. I’ve written extensively about all these leaders in…

Jeffrey Sachs and Philip Giraldi: The Ukraine War Is Yet Another Neocon War

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Jeffrey Sachs and Philip Giraldi Edited by Kevin MacDonald Jeffrey Sachs in Tikkun (a liberal-left Jewish publication): The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden Administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the US wars of choice in Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and who did so much to provoke Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The neocon track record is one of unmitigated disaster, yet Biden has staffed his team with neocons. As a result, Biden is…

U.S. invaded Afghanistan to loot its mineral wealth: philosopher

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Tehran Times TEHRAN – A retired professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota says the U.S. war on Afghanistan was intended to loot the country’s mineral wealth.  “Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with 9/11,” James Fetzer notes. “The U.S. invaded Afghanistan in order to loot its vast mineral wealth – including the largest lithium deposit outside of Bolivia, where lithium is used for components in computers, triggers for nuclear devices, and electric car batteries – and to resurrect the poppy fields,” Fetzer tells the Tehran Times. After…

Opinion: Biden has no business setting foot at Ground Zero on the anniversary of 9/11

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Opinion by  Marc A. Thiessen [Editor’s note: Marc Thiessen has it right but some of his reasons are wrong. The 19 alleged “suicide hijackers” and Osama bin Laden had nothing to do with the atrocities of 9/11: they were patsies, like Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan in relation to JFK and Bobby, as I explain in my “Dark Outpost” presentation (below). But the calamitous fashion in which the Afghanistan withdrawal took place and the disrespectful way he has behaved with grieving families more than justifies keeping him far away.] …

Majority of Americans do not believe Biden is competent, most also opposed to his handling of Afghanistan fiasco

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Natural News  (Natural News) Majority of Americans no longer believe that President Joe Biden is capable of governing the country. This is according to a poll conducted by mainstream media outlet CBS News. The survey was conducted with the help of public opinion company YouGov. It interviewed 2,142 adult residents of the United States between Aug. 18 to 20. It found that 51 percent of the respondents believe Biden is no longer competent as a president. Fifty-two percent believe he is no longer focused, and 53 percent said he is no longer effective at governing…

Stephen Eric Bronner, Afghanistan’s Footprint

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By Stephen Eric Bronner In Memory of Stanley Aronowitz ormer secretary of state Colin Powell’s “pottery barn rule” applies: “You break it, you own it!” Perhaps: but then you can always throw “it” away. That’s what occurred in Afghanistan, known as “the graveyard of empires” because it has historically been difficult to govern and more difficult to conquer. The United States sent in a raiding party to capture Osama bin Laden following 9/11/2001 and then, like “the man who came to dinner,” remained for 20 years – just long enough…

What America failed to understand about its war in Afghanistan

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Carter Malkasian As the United States leaves Afghanistan after 20 years of war, there can be little doubt that we lost the war — or to put it more gently, did not attain our objectives. In recent weeks, the Taliban have advanced across the north of the country. Bereft of US support, the Afghan army and police have reportedly lost more than two dozen districts over the course of a month and are now fighting on the outskirts of key cities such as Kandahar and Mazar-e-Sharif. Senior US officials have…