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When The Earth Moves Under Your Feet...
In 1969 I was in Istanbul, living in my VW camper, on my way to India. Istanbul was so exotic and the Sultanahmet district was seedy with...

Howie Klein
May 234 min read
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Where the Road Ended In Nuristan, Humanity Began— The Winter That Changed Me
Strangers, Lack Of Kindness And America’s Most Profound Shame You know that long skinny sliver of land that juts out of northeast...

Howie Klein
May 134 min read
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Trump Doesn't Know Any Better Than To Treat Our Afghan Allies Dishonorably— He's That Kind Of Guy
He's Going To Deport Them Back To The Taliban I was in Afghanistan for extended periods twice. The first time was in 1969, so before the...

Howie Klein
Apr 123 min read
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Is Trump God's Wrath? Is It The Punishment America Deserves For All The Fucked Up Crap We've Done?
Can Things Get Even Worse? If later today, Trump sent out another social media post falsely claiming that the the Trump supporter who...

Howie Klein
Jan 36 min read
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Will Creeping Political Realignment Even Impact Things As Fundamentally Personal As Eating Habits?
Yesterday, Nate Cohn mused about the new American politics that has come in Trump’s wake … which can even feels like it has been turned...

Howie Klein
Dec 26, 20246 min read
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Midnight Meme Of The Day! The True Facts About The Afghanistan Withdrawal
An Antidote For The Usual GOP 'Alternative' Factoids! by Noah Ever since psychopathic Traitor Trump went to Arlington Cemetery the other...

Noah
Sep 4, 20241 min read
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Who's More Corrupt-- Congressmen Who Took Bribes From SBF Or Afs Who Participate In Baksheesh?
Hamid Karzai & Sam Bankman-Fried Last week you may have caught us celebrating when a judge rescinded Sam Bankman Fried’s bail and tossed...

Howie Klein
Aug 16, 202314 min read
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Half A Dozen Things That Have Scared Me-- And Trump Isn't One Of Them
When I was weighing the pros and cons of buying my forever home. the size of the master bedroom on the second floor was a huge plus for...

Howie Klein
Mar 26, 20236 min read
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The Taliban Is Now Denying Education To Women (Again)
I got to Afghanistan for the first time in 1969 and I just fell in love with the country. Driving there was more like traveling back in...

Howie Klein
Dec 20, 20225 min read
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J.R. Majewski Says He Wasn't Inside The Capitol But Was In Afghanistan-- He's Got That Ass Backwards
Northern Ohio’s 9th district, which stretches form the suburbs west and south of Cleveland, along the coast of Lake Erie through Lorian...

Howie Klein
Sep 22, 20227 min read
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I Was A Late Starter When It Came To Cooking... But It All Worked Out
I grew up thinking the kitchen was a foreign, highly specialized place and not meant for me, except when I wanted to sneak in and grab...

Howie Klein
Sep 16, 20226 min read
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Not A Very Happy One Year Anniversary In A Not Very Happy Afghanistan
The first time I got to Afghanistan the piece was relatively peaceful. It was 1969, pre-Russian invasion, pre-Taliban, pre-US invasion....

Howie Klein
Aug 15, 20226 min read
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Who Understands Trump Better, Chris Sununu (R-NH) Or Lisa McClain (R-MI)?
Yesterday, Natalie Andrews and Eliza Collins reported that as Republicans prepare for the midterms they are unified around Señor...

Howie Klein
Apr 4, 20223 min read
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Another "Worst President Ever" Post? Not Exactly
As part of it's extensive Presidents' Day coverage, The Forward published a delightful piece by PJ Grisar-- Who Were The Most (And Least)...

Howie Klein
Feb 21, 20228 min read
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Biden’s Bottomless Cruelty To Afghans
-by Eric Zuesse On February 11th, the New York Times bannered “Spurning Demand by the Taliban, Biden Moves to Split $7 Billion in Frozen...

Howie Klein
Feb 17, 20224 min read
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For Biden's Approval Ratings, Is There Nowhere Else To Go But Up?
New polls released today by Gallup, Morning Consult and YouGov all show Biden's job approval ratings nearly in really miserable...

Howie Klein
Jan 19, 20229 min read
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Everyone On All Sides-- Still Lying About Afghanistan
This morning the Atlantic Council put out a paper, Afghanistan Is About To Collapse. Here's What The US Must Do About It by a dozen...

Howie Klein
Dec 14, 20216 min read
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After Afghanistan-- A Peace Dividend? You Must Be Joking
Who's To Blame? The U.S. finally withdrew from Afghanistan, the smoothest and most successful withdrawal from that country since... I...

Howie Klein
Nov 7, 20219 min read
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Who "Lost" Afghanistan? Zalmay Khalilzad... Even More Than Trump
I spent a lot more time in Holland, France, Turkey, Morocco, Thailand... that I did in Afghanistan but I write more about Afghanistan...

Howie Klein
Oct 25, 20215 min read
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Police Hunting Protesters in Minneapolis from Unmarked Vans ... Resembles What?
Did Afghanistan come home to Minnesota?

Thomas Neuburger
Oct 12, 20215 min read
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