2022-08-27: News Headlines

Nyla Samee (2022-08-27). Stop Using Islamophobic Rhetoric to Condemn Christian Extremism. commondreams.org When liberals call Christian nationalists "the Taliban," they're making Islam the standard for extremism—rather than the Christian far right that threatens our democracy.

_____ (2022-08-25). The US Legacy In Afghanistan. popularresistance.org The mid-point of August is an important moment in history for Afghanistan and the world. It marks the anniversary of the Taliban's ouster of large portions of the U.S. military from Afghanistan, putting a formal end to a two-decade occupation. U.S. forces left Afghanistan just as murderously as they came in. Joe Biden's administration oversaw numerous war crimes during its haphazard "withdrawal" on August 15th 2021. This included a drone strike that killed ten civilians and at least seven children. | The cost of the twenty-year total siege of Afghanistan is well documented. According to Brown University's Cost of…

_____ (2022-08-25). Afghanistan: the Sad Outcome of the Bloody US Aggression. journal-neo.org Major General Christopher Todd Donahue has marked a place for himself in the history books as the last American soldier to secretly escape from hostile Kabul under the cover of night. It happened on August 15, exactly one year since the "brave yankees" fled Afghanistan after two decades of brutal and bloody occupation, leaving the country …

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