I am a cynical person. It takes a lot to amaze me. But, twice in the past couple of years I have been utterly and completely astounded by the blatant manipulative nature of the corporate media. I don’t know exactly why this should be so. Years ago, I wrote a book about ideology, the mediaContinue reading “The Leader of Your Party: Afghanistan”
Tag Archives: Withdrawal
I Hope I’m Wrong: Afghanistan and biden
From an interview this morning with Leon Panetta, it seems likely that members of the corporate Democratic Party elite are advising Joe Biden to come out and take responsibility for the decision to precipitously withdraw from Afghanistan, and to admit that it was a mistake. It has been reported that when Joe Biden was ViceContinue reading “I Hope I’m Wrong: Afghanistan and biden”
IMPERIAL LIFE IN THE EMERALD CITY: UNDERSTANDING AFGHANISTAN
If you are interested in understanding how we got into this situation in Afghanistan, this book has been out for years. Warning: It will enrage you.
“it was not the outcome we had anticipated”: afghanistan
During the past few weeks the corporate news media has been studiously ignoring the disastrous military and humanitarian crisis shaping up in Afghanistan. They have been doing so, I think, because the crisis makes Biden look feckless, ruthless, and incompetent. For so long, there was almost nothing on the corporate news, but every day itContinue reading ““it was not the outcome we had anticipated”: afghanistan”