Chris Hedges and Matthew Hoh: Afghanistan War Keeps Going Because the Money Keeps Flowing In

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

RT America on Jul 15, 2017

On this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges takes an in-depth look at the 16-year-old conflict in Afghanistan with Matthew Hoh, a Marine Corps veteran and diplomat who resigned his State Department post in Afghanistan in protest over the war. RT Correspondent Anya Parampil looks at the decades of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan.

from the archives:

David Swanson: House Panel Votes to Debate Post-9/11 Blank Check for War + De-Authorize the Use of Military Force by David Swanson

The Tragedy of Forced Displacement by Graham Peebles

The Losing Warfare State by Ralph Nader

War And The Health Of The State: What Causes War, Part 1 by Arthur D. Robbins

Chris Hedges: Why the Brutalized Become Brutal

Kill Them All – US Strike on Afghan Hospital by Finian Cunningham

Matthew Hoh: Taliban is not a threat to the US, it is a threat to the Karzai Government