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With Will Griffin
Writer, Dandelion Salad
The Peace Report
March 8, 2019
“For all these costs, particularly the bloody expenditure of lives, the war remains the same as it was in 2009: neither side can win and neither side will surrender. US proclamations of military success and “hard won gains” are specious and are just one of the ever present lies of war.” — Matthew Hoh
The Peace Report on Mar 5, 2019
Matthew Hoh is a member of the advisory boards of Expose Facts, Veterans For Peace and World Beyond War. In 2009 he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the Afghan War by the Obama Administration. He previously had been in Iraq with a State Department team and with the U.S. Marines. He is a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy.
Matt’s article: Time for Peace in Afghanistan and an End to the Lies
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From the archives:
William Blum: Be Nice To America. Or We’ll Bring Democracy To Your Country!
17 Years of Getting Afghanistan Completely Wrong by David Swanson
Chris Hedges: A Socialist Soldier’s Tale of Resisting the American Empire
Capitalism Is Always At War by William T. Hathaway
The War of US and NATO Imperialism in Afghanistan by Fazal Rahman, Ph.D.
Matthew Hoh: Trump’s New Afghanistan Strategy: Windfall for the Military-Industrial Complex
Chris Hedges and Matthew Hoh: Afghanistan War Keeps Going Because the Money Keeps Flowing In
Matthew Hoh: Taliban is not a threat to the US, it is a threat to the Karzai Government
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U.S. troops are in Afghanistan protecting poppy fields
Yes, they go into that in the interview, Part 3, I believe.