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Washington’s Assassination Bureau
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Washington’s Assassination Bureau
August 16, 2022

The United States and Israel have a formula down pat whereby they can kill anyone anywhere without any due process or rule of law, even if they don’t know who you are as in the cases of the “signature” or “profile” executions by drone in Afghanistan.

The Empire Is Not Done Torturing Afghanistan
July 7, 2022

Hell hath no fury like Empire scorned. As if all the bombing, droning, years of occupation and serial collateral damage was not misery enough, a resentful Washington topped its performance by effectively stealing $7 billion from the Afghan central bank: that is, funds that belong to roughly 40 million battered Afghan citizens.

The Empire Is Not Done Torturing Afghanistan
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Pakistan in the Eye of the Storm
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Pakistan in the Eye of the Storm
February 8, 2022

New trends that have appeared in regional security since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan are highly consequential for regional politics.

Murder by Any Other Name
November 6, 2021

Scott Ritter explains how the murder of Zemari Ahmadi and nine family members by a U.S. drone attack in August was whitewashed by the Pentagon.

Murder by Any Other Name
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From Russia, With (Taliban) Love
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From Russia, With (Taliban) Love
October 26, 2021

Facing high expectations, a five-man band Taliban finally played in Moscow. Yet the star of the show, predictably, was the Mick Jagger of geopolitics: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Watching Taliban-Tajikistan Relations
October 9, 2021

Afghanistan and Tajikistan share a 1,400-kilometer border. Recently, a war of words has erupted between Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon and the Taliban government in Kabul. Rahmon censures the Taliban for the destabilization of Central Asia by the export of militant groups, while the Taliban leadership has accused Tajikistan’s government of interference.

Watching Taliban-Tajikistan Relations
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Pepe Escobar – Forever Wars, Recaptured in Real Time
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Pepe Escobar – Forever Wars, Recaptured in Real Time
October 8, 2021

The majority of the articles, essays and interviews selected for this two-part e-book were written in Afghanistan and in Iraq and/or before and after multiple visits to both countries.

Afghanistan’s Impoverished People Live Amid Enormous Riches
October 1, 2021

There is no public indication from the SCO that it would prevent not only cross-border terrorism, but also cross-border smuggling. The largest quantities of heroin and opium from northern Afghanistan go to Tajikistan; untold sums of money are made in the illegal movement of minerals, gemstones, and metals out of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s Impoverished People Live Amid Enormous Riches
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