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Economics Explains the Taliban’s Rapid Advances

Economics Explains the Taliban’s Rapid Advances

Anthony Gill aier.org Anthony Gill is a professor of political economy at the University of Washington and a Distinguished Senior Fellow with Baylor University’s Institute for the Study of Religion. Earning his PhD in political science at UCLA in 1994, Prof. Gill specializes in the economic study of

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Biden’s Catastrophic Afghanistan Project Planning Disaster

Biden’s Catastrophic Afghanistan Project Planning Disaster

Frankly Anyone experienced in project management and risk management disciplines will be thinking the same as me. They will be stunned at Biden’s massive leadership failures in Afghanistan which are shaking the world. No wonder his poll rating has crashed so dramatically. Anyone who knows anything about project and

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Afghan Allies Must Not Be Left behind Following Kabul Terror Attack
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Afghan Allies Must Not Be Left behind Following Kabul Terror Attack

New Zealand must urgently step up plans to evacuate our Afghan allies from Afghanistan following the deadly terror attack at Kabul’s international airport, says Leader of the Opposition Judith Collins. “The Defence Force has ended efforts to evacuate New Zealanders and their families from Afghanistan but there are still

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I Don’t Think They’re Listening, Jacinda

I Don’t Think They’re Listening, Jacinda

As BFD readers will be aware, PM Jacinda Ardern recently implored the Taliban to respect women. Her government also forked out a cool few million in taxpayers’ money to Afghanistan. But it seems that the Taliban are likely to give up their misogynistic cruelty some time after another beneficiary of

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Israel PM’s National Plan to Fight Delta

Israel PM’s National Plan to Fight Delta

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appealed to the public on his Facebook page and detailed in a press release the national plan to fight the Delta wave. Good evening. I would like to share with you our national plan to fight the Delta wave that is engulfing the world. I will

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The Army in Myanmar Is Getting Nervous

The Army in Myanmar Is Getting Nervous

23rd August 2021 The action taken by the PDF and the ethnic armies is beginning to take effect. The junta have instructed all its troops to be combat ready as a direct result of increased ambushes and urban attacks. The regime’s crackdown on its opponents is expected to intensify

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Know Them by the Company They Keep

Know Them by the Company They Keep

Remember when a former Klan leader endorsed Donald Trump for president? The media went ballistic: here was proof positive, they said, that Trump was a racist. After all, why else would the leader of a racist group praise him? (Never mind that a current Klan leader also endorsed Hillary Clinton.

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Israel in Jeopardy: A Consequence of Biden’s Afghan Bungling

Israel in Jeopardy: A Consequence of Biden’s Afghan Bungling

Dave Patterson libertynation.com Dave Patterson is a retired US Air Force pilot and the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller. In addition to Liberty Nation, his articles have also appeared in The Federalist. As the U.S. retreats from Afghanistan, scrambling to get the remnants of American

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How Big Tech Is Helping the Taliban

How Big Tech Is Helping the Taliban

Donald Trump is banned from Twitter — the Taliban is not. Think on that: since a famously “progressive” Big Tech company refuses a platform to an American president, but happily plays host to one of America’s most deadly enemies. A prescribed terrorist organisation notorious for its violently non-“progressive” stance

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The Fall of Afghanistan
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The Fall of Afghanistan

New Conservative New Conservative agrees that what the world has witnessed in Afghanistan is a tragedy. Twenty years of Western investment – time, money and most significantly life – has been undone in just three weeks.  The ability of the Taliban to regain control of the whole country so quickly appears to

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Walter Duranty Lives! (In China’s Pocket)

Walter Duranty Lives! (In China’s Pocket)

Walter Duranty is one of the most infamous names in the history of fake news. Duranty’s notoriety primarily stems from his incessant praise of the Soviet Union, and Stalin in particular, in the 1930s. Most notoriously, Duranty emphatically denied the widespread famine in the Soviet Union, even as some

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