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  By Thomas L. Friedman, Opinion Columnist As I watch events in Afghanistan unfold, I find myself trying to ignore all the commentary and longing instead to interview three people: President Lyndon Johnson, Chinese President Xi Jinping…

By Zhou Bo . Mr. Zhou was a senior colonel in the People’s Liberation Army from 2003 to 2020 and is an expert on the Chinese Army’s strategic thinking on international security.  The speed and scope of the Taliban’s takeover in Afghanistan…

By Owei Lakemfa, former secretary general of African workers,  human rights activist, journalist and author. AFGHANISTAN is in chaos. There are videos of Afghans clinging to aircraft taking off and dropping to earth. The dominant media…

A new story about an Afghan officer who fought with US forces being rescued from Kabul with a daring mission by US forces was Kicked off by AP News a few hours ago today. Within minutes, the story started spreading like wild fires. It got…

President Joe Biden’s administration is so concerned about weapons that have fallen in Taliban hands that it is considering a number of options to pursue. “launching airstrikes against the larger equipment, such as helicopters, has not been…

Op-Ed by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Written on August 17, 2021, The Day Afghanistan fell to the Taliban. The magnitude of the United States’ failure in Afghanistan is breathtaking. It is not a failure of Democrats or Republicans, but an abiding…

A secret terrorist watchlist with 1.9 million records, including classified “no-fly” records was exposed on the internet. The list was left accessible on an Elasticsearch cluster that had no password on it. Millions of people on no-fly and…

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It’s was less than 48 hours ago when President Biden asked the Taliban to spare the U.S. Embassy in Kabul with threats to cut “Robust Diplomatic Engagement.” The message made many wonder if an “understanding” had existed between the two…

Are U.S. Political Leaders Killing American Pride? Is there need for more proof of how morally bankrupt American political leaders of both sides are? What does it mean when the greatest empire on the planet has to ask the Taliban to spare…