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Antiwar.com Original Setting the Record Straight on Operation Cyclone Claims that the al-Qaeda founder worked for the CIA are demonstrably unfounded, but the facts behind the U.S.'s decade-long program to fund and arm the Afghan mujahideen are not much better.by Thomas Resnick Posted on Last month, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Twitter account posted a short article on the FIM-92 Stinger, a surface-to-air missile system that has become a metonym for American assistance to Afghan guerrillas between 1979 and 1989. Some users on the site were quick to flippantly reply with ...

Things to know about all the lies on Xinjiang: How have they come about? China Watch Institute, China Daily | Updated: 2021-04-28 12:45 Share CLOSE A Uygur family in Yuli county, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, April 15, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua] In recent years, manipulated and encouraged by the anti-China forces in the United States, some truth-bending "academic institutions", rumor-mongering "experts and scholars" and "amateur actors" with no moral scruples have created a chain of lies to defame Xinjiang and mislead international pub...

The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen “When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” —Alfred McCoy, author, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia A Soviet “Vietnam” By far the most influe...

Examining underlying issues Obviously, there is no genocide going on in China, but we must conduct our own research into what is happening in Xinjiang, urges Foppe de Haan A couple of weeks ago, Daniel Lazare correctly dismissed allegations of Uyghur ‘genocide’ (‘Uyghurs: why now?’, March 18). We are all aware of how the US will weaponise and even create ‘human rights’ situations in order to further its goals, and that it has engaged in such actions almost constantly since World War II. As such, I obviously agree with him that the capitalist countries are promoting this narrative ...

Comments Like so many of the conflicts around the world today, the ongoing war in Somalia dates back to the proxy wars between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. With the latter now a historical relic, American involvement in the East African nation has continued under the guise of the “war on terror,” in order to maintain a geopolitical edge in the Horn of Africa. In December of 2020, the Trump administration announced the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Somalia, sparking concerns from factions within the Somali military that have grown to rely on Americ...