Words of two British #Afghanistan vets on Biden said it better than I could...
"To see their Commander-in-Chief call into question the courage of men I fought with. To claim that they ran... Shameful. Those who have never fought for the colors they fly, should be careful about criticizing those who have.” ~ Tom Tugendhat, MP
"Many of us who served in Afghanistan have a deep bond of affection for the Afghan people. I had the honor of serving alongside them in Helmand. We trained together, fought together and, in some cases, we died together. They were our brothers in arms." ~ Dan Jarvis, MP
"...But I shudder to think where those men are now. Many will be dead, others I know now consider themselves to be dead men walking. Where were we in their hour need? We were no where. And that is shameful.” ~ Dan Jarvis, MP
Biden declared that, "Human rights are at the center of U.S. foreign policy." Should we now laugh or cry? Now that the Taliban are gunning down peaceful protesters…Biden has rewarded them with the best US weapons, which US soldiers abandoned in panic.
The horrid, panicked timing was just a PR stunt, to be out by September 11.
JFK: "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”
Joe: "Faggedaboudit!"
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Chevron set out to destroy @SDonziger, to make an example of a human rights lawyer that dares take on the petroleum pirates. But the oil giant also went after journalists... #FreeDonzigergregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
In one case, filing a complaint against the BBC Television reporter that broke the story that Chevron had destroyed key evidence in the case. I was that reporter — and survived with my job after a year of hearings.
I’ve gone way out of my way to get Chevron/Texaco’s side of the story. I finally chased them down in Ecuador’s capital, Quito. I showed them a study of the epidemic of childhood leukemia centered on where their company dumped oil sludge. chevroninecuador.org/assets/docs/ch…
Biden has called Afghans cowards who "don’t have the will" to fight for their country. 66,000 Afghan soldiers laid down their lives to stop the fascist Taliban. Those Afghan soldiers aren’t as white as you, Joe, but that doesn’t make them cowards. gregpalast.com/afghan-women-f…
Since you carried out Trump’s policy of surrender to the Taliban, it’s not surprising you adopt his racist trope.
Every one of your military experts, from Joint Chiefs Gen. Milley and Defense Sec. Austin, told you not to follow Trump’s idiot path. Suddenly pulling troops in the middle of "fighting season" shows a level of stupid that even Trump backed away from.
Watching the British run to Dunkirk, Ambassador Harriman told FDR that there was no chance that England could prevent a takeover by Hitler, so abandon the UK. gregpalast.com/afghan-women-f…
Taliban rule is not "inevitable." The Taliban took over once before…and in October 2001, they were crushed in minutes. buzzflash.com/articles/greg-…
I don’t shrug my shoulders and say, "Slaughter and enslavement? Not my problem, I’m hunting for bargains on Amazon."
Look at his face. Emergildo Criollo, Chief of the Cofan people of the Amazon in Ecuador. Determined, dignified, in war paint, bare-chested... gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…#FreeDonziger 🧵
It was in 2007, when I found him in his thatched stilt home in the rainforest. Criollo told me his 3-year-old had jumped into a swimming hole, covered with an enticing shine. The shine was oil sludge, illegally dumped. His son came up vomiting blood and died in the Chief’s arms.
I followed Criollo to the courthouse in the dusty roustabout town of Lago Agrio (Bitter Lake) where, with a sheaf of papers, he sought justice for his son. gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
#FreeDonziger: This is the first ever case in which we have a corporation acting as a criminal prosecutor — a prosecution that is blatant retaliation for a successful lawsuit against them. This, by itself, is deeply, deeply, dangerous. gregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
And if you think I take this personally — yeah, you bet! I do because the same corporation tried to get a reporter fired for reporting on their obstruction of justice and their poisoning of the Amazon jungle. That reporter was me.
#StevenDonziger, a US attorney, classmate of Barack Obama at Harvard law, gave up everything — literally everything — to take on Chevron on behalf of the Cofan people of the Amazon in Ecuador. #FreeDonzigergregpalast.com/facing-prison-…
An Ecuadorian court ordered Chevron to pay $9.5 billion, finding that the oil giant's Texaco operation had illegally dumped 16 billion gallons of deadly oil waste. It’s been a decade, and Chevron still hasn’t paid a dime. #BigOil#Pollution#ClimateChangegregpalast.com/facing-prison-…