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with John Pilger
goingundergroundRT on Sep 8, 2021
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger on the takeover of the Taliban in Afghanistan.
He calls the US military a killing machine and discusses why the Afghanistan War must be viewed through the lens of Western imperialism, the scale of civilian casualties and destruction of Afghanistan by NATO countries, how the US created today’s situation by supporting Afghan jihadist forces against the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War, the social progress and progressive reform lost to history with the fall of the Soviet-backed PDPA government in Afghanistan and much more!
John Pilger also discusses the anniversary of the Pinochet coup in Chile and the trial of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.
From the archives:
Abby Martin: Never Forget: Lessons of the Post-9/11 Warpath
Blinken on Damage-Limitation Tour After Afghanistan Fiasco, by Finian Cunningham
A Letter to Americans about Afghanistan, from the Margins of Empire, by Kenn Orphan
What Was The First 9-11? by The Anti-Social Socialist
John Pilger: The Coming War On China (must-see)
John Pilger: The War You Don’t See
John Pilger: Breaking The Silence – Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2006)
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The US and NATO are terror organizations. If someone invades your home and kills your family, they are criminals.
John is a warrior, but he’s MIA on the draconian laws dumped on the working class around the world.
The thin edge of the wedge has blood all over it.