US LAWLESSNESS

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

JEFF J. BROWN—Ms. Meng was apprehended in Vancouver, Canada on 1 December 2018 at the behest of the United States, to be extradited south of the 49th parallel. Since then, she has been battling in court and in the headlines to show that US charges of fraud are unfounded, and that she should be released. Since that time Ms. Meng has been under house arrest in Vancouver for 2.5 years, grinding out endless testimonies>

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.

There has been a recent swell of anti-Syria propaganda, supported by prominent activists on the “left.”  This has included attacks on the majority of the US antiwar movement, which has focused on opposing US and outside aggression against Syria, and which supports the right of Syria to defend its national sovereignty against this outside aggression.   The clear fact is that the US government, along with its allies in NATO, Israel and other reactionary Middle Eastern states is the primary cause of the current devastation of the Syrian people. The US and its allies have facilitated the entry into Syria of tens of thousands of foreign fighters to support their regime change agenda.

T. MEYSSAN—In order to implement the USA Patriot Act, a new department was created, the Homeland Security Department, which brings together various existing agencies. It has a political police force capable of spying on any citizen. According to the Washington Post, which revealed this in 2011, it has hired 835,000 civil servants, 112,000 of whom are secretly employed [9], making the United States the most Orwellian country on the planet. The way this department works was revealed in 2013 by Edward Snowden. Snowden not only provided information about the NSA’s foreign eavesdropping system, but also about domestic mass surveillance in the US. He now lives as a political refugee in Russia. This system, although less documented, is gradually spreading to all Western states, through the ’Five Eyes’ [10]and Nato.