Red Lines host Anya Parampil speaks with investigative journalist Gareth Porter about his recent article in The Grayzone which analyses the media’s coverage of the Biden Administrations withdrawal from Afghanistan. Porter explains how major outlets from The New York Times to PBS regurgitated talking points from US military without question in order to undermine support for the withdrawal.
U.S. is Waging Domestic War and Preparing for More
AJAMU BARAKA—Domestic colonial containment and imperialist counterrevolutionary policies are costly. But the brunt of the price is paid by the colonized and exploited working classes and peoples of the U.S. that pay for and die in U.S. wars of aggression, and by the peoples and nations that are bombed, subverted politically, sanctioned to death, and destroyed by the U.S. state and its European allies.
On the same day that the National Priorities Project report was issued, Brown University’s Cost of War Project release a report that estimated the war in Iraq and Afghanistan killed almost a million people and cost more than $8 trillion dollars.
