Giorno: 19 Agosto 2021

Senate Republicans demand Durham report be made public

Post Content More than 40 GOP senators signed on to a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation be allowed to continue and the report be made public. The letter comes amid questions about whether Durham will have funding to continue his investigation past the end of the government’s […]

Afghanistan withdrawal a ‘stupid plan’ that armed Taliban with US weapons and abandoned allies: Fmr Staff Sgt

Post Content Biden administration officials appear to have been caught flat-footed by the Taliban’s rapid capture of Kabul as the Pentagon and State Department race to evacuate thousands of Americans and Afghan allies from Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the whole world is watching. Staff Sgt. William Bee, who was one of the first Marines to deploy to […]

Taliban says Afghanistan will be guided by Sharia law, ‘no democratic system at all’

Post Content A senior Taliban commander on Wednesday laid out the broad strokes of how Afghanistan will be governed after the stunning fall of Kabul, saying there will be an Islamic government with Sharia law and no democratic system “at all.” Waheedullah Hashimi, the leader, told Reuters that democracy does not have “any base in […]

Haiti quake: Tensions grow over aid as deaths pass 2K

Post Content LES CAYES, Haiti — Tensions have been growing over the slow pace of aid reaching victims of a powerful weekend earthquake that killed more than 2,100 people in Haiti and was trailed by a drenching tropical depression. At the small airport in the southwestern community of Les Cayes, throngs of people gathered outside […]

Exiled Afghan leader Ashraf Ghani claims he ‘would have been hanged’ had he stayed: report

Post Content Ashraf Ghani, the exiled president of Afghanistan, claims he was “expelled” and “would have been hanged” had he remained in the country instead of leaving, according to a report. Ghani addressed his situation – and that of his homeland – in a Facebook video that was uploaded Wednesday, according to a report posted […]

China eyeing power grab off chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan

Post Content Top foreign policy experts warned Wednesday that China is looking to profit from what critics are calling the U.S.’ disorganized and inept withdrawal from Afghanistan. This is an “opportunity to further their bid to destabilize U.S. alliances, not just in the Indo-Pacific but in the Middle East,” Eric Brown, a senior fellow specializing […]

Can Zionists support a binational state? This Israeli writer says yes

Read More Is it time for liberal Zionists, in the name of Zionism, to embrace the end of a sovereign Jewish state in Israel and instead seek the establishment of a binational one? Omri Boehm, an Israeli philosopher and associate professor at the New School for Social Research, believes so – making the case in […]

Chicken producers blame Brexit for staff and supply shortages

Read More Farming Chicken producers blame Brexit for staff and supply shortages Government urged to relax UK immigration rules after one in six jobs left unfilled since EU departure @zoewoodguardian Thu 19 Aug 2021 06.30 EDT Last modified on Thu 19 Aug 2021 07.07 EDT The British Poultry Council has said food producers are facing […]

Former Army Rangers blast Biden for Afghanistan ‘dumpster fire’: Admin ‘did not plan and does not have one’

Post Content Two former U.S. Army rangers who served in Afghanistan are blasting President Biden for having “no plan” for withdrawing from the country and then blaming others for the “dumpster fire” that ensued. Dan Blakeley and Tom Amenta, who recently came out with a photo journal dedicated to veterans titled “The Twenty Year War,” […]

Biden si difende: “Caos in Afghanistan era inevitabile, pronti a restare anche dopo il 31 agosto per evacuare tutti gli americani”

Read More Le truppe americane potrebbero rimanere a Kabul anche al di là della data limite del 31 agosto per evacuare “tutti gli americani”. A dirlo, il presidente Joe Biden rispondendo a una domanda specifica della ABC. “Gli americani devono comprendere che noi dovremo completare l’evacuazione prima della fine del mese”, spiega, aggiungendo però che […]