Month: September 2021
John Pilger on Afghanistan withdrawal: US military is a killing machine!
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger about the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban. He calls the US military a killing machine and discusses why the Afghanistan war must be viewed through the lens of Western imperialism, the scale of civilian casualties and destruction of Afghanistan by NATO countries, how the US created today’s situation by supporting Afghan jihadist forces against the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War …
BBC admits its error in covering Syria ‘gas attack’ in Douma
The BBC has admitted that its coverage of the alleged Douma gas attack in 2018 contained insinuations that seriously misled its audience and inaccurately characterized the motives of OPCW whistleblower “Alex” as motivated by money and by making unwarranted connections between Russian and Syrian “state views” and the editorial mission of WikiLeaks. RT America’s Alex Mihailovich shares the details. …
How elite US institutions created Afghanistan’s neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million from his country
Before he stole $169 million and fled his failed state in disgrace, Afghanistan’s puppet President Ashraf Ghani was formed in elite American universities, given US citizenship, trained in neoliberal economics by the World Bank, glorified in the media as an “incorruptible” technocrat, coached by powerful DC think tanks like the Atlantic Council, and given awards for his book “Fixing Failed States.” …
