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Friend,
For 20 years, the corporate media were wrong about nearly everything in Afghanistan.
Now, with the U.S. leaving and the Taliban taking over, the same people who were wrong from the start are once again popping up all over cable news.
David Petraeus. Newt Gingrich. Paul Wolfowitz. John Bolton. George W. Bush. Tony Blair.
And what’s their message? The same as always. They want foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan.
If we are ever going to learn the right lessons from Afghanistan, we must stop listening to the people who created this mess in the first place. We need independent, nonprofit media that will listen to those who said all along that the war was a mistake.
That’s what Common Dreams was founded to do: challenge the pro-war corporate media consensus and provide a space for dissenting voices who advocate a foreign policy based on peace, diplomacy, and humanitarian values.
However, as a nonprofit news outlet, we receive no corporate advertising revenue, and we refuse to hide our journalism behind a paywall. Instead, we rely on grassroots donations from readers like you.
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