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Not All Racists Are In The South-- Montana Elected One To Congress: Meet Matt Rosendale
Matt Rosendale was born and raised in Maryland where he flunked out of college but still went on to be a successful real estate agent. In...

Howie Klein
Sep 17, 20215 min read
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Randy Bryce: "Let's Welcome Our New Neighbors"
I've been all over the world and, of course, I have a list of favorite places I've visited. Always high up on that list was Afghanistan....

Howie Klein
Sep 16, 20218 min read
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If Only We Had Listened To Barbara Lee Instead Of Dick Cheney!
Garrett Graff is probably best known as the first blogger to receive credentials to cover the White House. He went on to become a...

Howie Klein
Sep 8, 202112 min read
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Afghanistan Didn't Learn Corruption From The U.S.-- Nor Did We Learn It From Them
The headline, Afghanistan's Corruption Was Made In America, at Foreign Affairs is misleading. That the U.S., as the occupying power,...

Howie Klein
Sep 7, 20219 min read
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No One Likes A Collaborator
The American living in Kabul in the ABC News story above, should have left Afghanistan with his family months ago. Why didn't he? In his...

Howie Klein
Sep 6, 20215 min read
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Midterms: If The Democrats Don't Give People A Reason To Vote For Them, They Won't
Every Single Conservative In Congress Exists On Bribery Republicans seem out of their minds and unimaginably impossible to support. In...

Howie Klein
Sep 6, 20215 min read
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The Tragedy Of Afghanistan Is Far From Over
Last night NBC News reported that "Of more than 30,000 evacuees from Afghanistan to the U.S., about 10,000 needed additional screening as...

Howie Klein
Sep 4, 20216 min read
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Trump's Legacy-- The Normalization Of Over-The-Top Political Fabrication
It would be hard to deny that the Trump era was, more than anything else, marked by the normalization of unabashed public lying. Trump is...

Howie Klein
Sep 1, 20215 min read
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What Would We Be Talking About If Afghanistan Hadn't Exploded Into The Headlines?
Maybe the ongoing investigation of Trump's coup (and related crap like this from Congress' one certified Nazi) or the eviction crisis?...

Howie Klein
Aug 31, 20216 min read
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Where Will The Afghan Refugees Settle In The U.S.?
As they often do, ABC News booked congenitally dishonest, silly little closet queen Lindsey Graham as a guest yesterday. He had nothing...

Howie Klein
Aug 30, 20214 min read
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Count On It: Afghanistan Will Be A "Consolidated Authoritarian Regime"-- And Very Homophobic
I'm in the "give the Taliban the benefit of the doubt" camp. I could be very proven wrong very quickly. Now, mind you, I'm not saying...

Howie Klein
Aug 30, 20215 min read
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Europeans Also Have A Perspective On Afghanistan-- Prepare To Be Jolted
Earlier today I was chastising congressional Republicans for being devoid of any semblance of patriotism. But patriotism is an abstract...

Howie Klein
Aug 29, 202111 min read
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Republicans Prioritize Slamming Biden Rather Than Backing American Efforts In Afghanistan
Does Anyone Think Of The GOP As Even Vaguely Patriotic Anymore? Did you get the idea that congressional Republicans have been behaving...

Howie Klein
Aug 29, 20216 min read
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Taliban 2.0-- No One Knows What To Expect-- But Forget About Lady Gaga Or Beyoncé Concerts
A little over 50 years ago, I spent a brutal winter in a tiny hamlet-- two families in two compounds-- in the Hindu Kush in northwest...

Howie Klein
Aug 29, 20215 min read
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Coming Soon: A Taliban, Pentagon Alliance?
I spent a lot of time in Afghanistan but it was pre-Taliban and I can't say I know how a Talib thinks or reasons. That said, I think the...

Howie Klein
Aug 27, 20217 min read
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Military Industrial Complex & Affiliates In The Media & Congress Insist On Reigniting Afghan War
The best thing Biden did since becoming president was something Bush, Obama and Trump were unable-- and unwilling-- to do because of...

Howie Klein
Aug 27, 20219 min read
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Let Me Be A Little Horrible
I heard some Republican goon-- I can't remember which one, maybe Lauren Boebert-- yowling about how Biden wants to bring Afghan refugees...

Howie Klein
Aug 26, 20215 min read
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Afghanistan: No Regrets
After two wonderful stays in Afghanistan starting in 1969, by 1978 I was living in San Francisco, fighting the good fight at home. My...

Howie Klein
Aug 25, 20215 min read
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Wars Always Have Profiteers-- That's Why We Have Wars
An all too typical Military Industrial Complex contractor, Supreme Foodservice owned by crooks in the UAE and Switzerland, pleaded guilty...

Howie Klein
Aug 24, 20216 min read
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The Inside Truth About Afghanistan-- Guest Post By Steven Holden
The past week has been hard on all who fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan. For, to talk of one, you must talk of the other. This story...

Howie Klein
Aug 23, 20214 min read
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