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Reasons behind US-backed military coup in Guinea? Minerals and China

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Ben Norton discusses how the US military trained elite forces that carried out a coup in Guinea, a West African country with many natural resources, including the planet’s largest reserves of bauxite, the main source of aluminum. Western government-funded think tanks boasted that the Guinean coup is a blow to China and its Belt and Road Initiative. Washington’s new cold war has Africa in its crosshairs. … Read More >Reasons behind US-backed military coup in Guinea? Minerals and China

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Day of the Planes: A 9/11 excerpt from ‘The Management of Savagery’

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Two hours’ drive from Kandahar, in the southern Afghan desert city where the Taliban were born and where Osama bin Laden maintained his operational base, a February 2001 wedding ceremony became the stage for bin Laden’s first public appearance in several years … Read More >Day of the Planes: A 9/11 excerpt from ‘The Management of Savagery’

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How elite US institutions created Afghanistan’s neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million from his country

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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.” … Read More >How elite US institutions created Afghanistan’s neoliberal President Ashraf Ghani, who stole $169 million from his country