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** TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
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Imperialism is the single-greatest cause of war, and war is the midwife of new imperialist acquisitions.
– Chalmers Johnson, The Sorrows of Empire ([link removed]) [2004]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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September 2, 2021
Crocodile Tears for Women's Rights in Afghanistan ([link removed])
Interventionist dead-enders are crying crocodile tears over the Taliban’s defeat of the Pentagon and the CIA in Afghanistan because, they say, women’s rights are not likely to be protected by the Taliban. Oh? Well, now let’s see. According to the Watson Institute at Brown University, civilian deaths in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 2001 to date exceed 70,000 people.
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Los Angeles Times
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