Richard Medhurst
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About Richard Medhurst: #RichardMedhurst is an independent journalist and commentator. Regular live streams and interviews with popular guests from the Left such as Glenn Greenwald, Mike Figueredo (Humanist Report) and Max Blumenthal (Grayzone). Fluent in English, Arabic, French, German, and having grown up across several continents, Medhurst’s show aims to provide a critical analysis of electoral politics and international affairs from an anti-imperialist viewpoint.
The 80's film Rambo 2 is "dedicated to the brave fighters of the Mujahideen".
It is all about green. To protect THE MANs investment. Read Smedley Butler.
The "Martha's Vineyard Birthday boy" and his "private jet friend Kerry" was willing to turn Syria into an ISIS Caliphate, so how much can imperialists really care about women's rights……
Here's a long excerpt worth reading: "Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahiddin began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the reality, closely guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into the war and looked for a way to provoke it?
B: It wasn’t quite like that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q : When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against secret US involvement in Afghanistan, nobody believed them. However, there was an element of truth in this. You don’t regret any of this today?
B: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter, essentially: “We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war." Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war that was unsustainable for the regime, a conflict that bought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported Islamic fundamentalism, which has given arms and advice to future terrorists?
B : What is more important in world history? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some agitated Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q : “Some agitated Moslems”? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today…
B: Nonsense! It is said that the West has a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid: There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner, without demagoguery or emotionalism. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among fundamentalist Saudi Arabia , moderate Morocco, militarist Pakistan, pro-Western Egypt, or secularist Central Asia? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries…"
https://dgibbs.faculty.arizona.edu/brzezinski_interview
Excellent analysis and context on this subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOZxjqSIHPM
Dear Richard, with the continual mass media lie coming up around"9/11", do invite Christopher Bollyn to chat with you and your viewers. The consequences include among all the last 20 years the horrific events . Other great researchers, Rebecca Roth and her books about the airplane fairy tales re the Towers on that day…and Laurent
Guyyenot whose article in the September 2018 Unz Review, " 9/11 was an Isreali Job"…….would be most enlightening.
The US public has been suckered for a very long time on the myth of simplistic moral exceptionalism promoted by totally cynical administrations to cover the global money grab by the military- industrial complex which, of course, then funds the very same crocodile afldministrations.The devil always has the last laugh I'm afraid.
"Corruption soils Afghanistan's bright blue" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36424018 treasure
Amazing you are young and educated on world affairs. It took me 50yrs to learn what you know.
I aplaud you in everyway and wish you a long and prosperous life
Richard your journalism is the best, much respect for your work.
The military industrial complex creates opportunities all over the world as does any good multinational. The only difference is that the body count is higher & profit comes via TAX revenue diversification. Thank the Sucka’s!
Clinton says all this about the Mujahedeen and then promotes the distruction of Libya, which led to the murder of Gaddafi and Libya now has slave trading in the streets. Needless to say I didn't vote for her in 2016.
Hillary Clinton was horrible person
"We give more money to Al Qaeda than we do to our own citizens for healthcare." … BINGO !!!
Don't forget Israel's role in 911.
I think that Egyptian Dr was killed. The one who blew up the school. Al zswahiri
CIA created Frankensteins and let them loose and we end up with their monstrous problems
ISI… can we say Awan brothers?
Can you say see eye aaa
Monopolistic hegemonic corporatist tyranny any questions?
Petro dollar. Always a fun time.
After 9/11 all private flights wer cancelled as far as I remember. Except the flight of the bin Laden family. Why?
Dear Mr. Medhurst, the war against terror is a perfect business model! A perpetual motion machine. Cynical, disgusting but successful! Work is never done.
Your right! Before the West invaded Afghanistan, it covered only 5% of the world's opium demand, after which it rose to about 95%. Coincidence?!
we need to add all of this information to ProleWiki https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan
2 trillion dollar grift
The Double-tap is a terrorist tactic that the CIA use in it's terror-drone attacks.
War Is a Racket – Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps Major General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient.
I suppose I’m bias because I’m going to school for a career in emergency services but whenever I hear about secondary bombs or doubling back to target medical personnel or first responders it leaves such a pit in my stomach. Evil is the only word for it.
Great job as always! I finally downloaded Rokfin now. Found you there 🤙🏻 PS: I hope you get Pepe Escobar on about Central Asia 💪🏻
Boy, you don't know what you are talking about and you haven't lived through these events to remember what happened, so I advise you to at least study that topic thoroughly. There are very few muricans who understand the complexity of the Middle East and that includes all those kids sent there, offered in sacrifice to Moloch, feeding the military industrial complex. Basically the US is responsible for reigniting the world jihad that was a thing of the past since the British campaigns in Sudan.
Another excellent presentation giving great insight to the War Machine. Thank you.
Richard, America Doesn't Take Care Of Women and Black People In America
America has done more to spread Islam than Mohammed himself
Green Day – American !d!0+
All those in power just like Hillary know whats going on, they just choose to profit in the end.
Moms Everywhere 🌈🌎🙏🏾😘🤔😤🤜🏽🤜🏽😈🤑💩👺
Finally a good journalist who has the courage to recall history as it was.
Brother Richard US is going to pay dearly for its wars from 1945 to 2021 one day mark my words,with major Earth quakes, hurricanes,famine,pandemics,there will be constant hunger,painful illness,homelessness high unemployment and the wrath of God.it must come whether they like it or not.
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Yes, it's socialism for the war machine. Socialism is evil when it's for the people.. but for the war profiteers.. it's not!
Thank you for this. I learned a lot.
The Afghans have always been a collection of tribes, the Pashtuns in the south (and in Pakistan and even parts of India) being the biggest and generally dominant. Three different (now former) Soviet countries Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan form Afghanistan's north border, and these peoples also have tribal associations in Northern Afghanistan. Afghanistan was a secular, Westernized Soviet-like country in the 60's and '70s under a monarch, then a socialist government.
The CIA overthrew the country by bringing in the religious Wahhabi extremists, mostly from Saudi Arabia (like Osama bin Laden) and funding Afghan extremists (like Hekmatyar) to goad the Soviets in 1979. The mujahideen used Pakistan for their bases much of the time (the Soviets did not cross that line) and eventually the Soviets withdrew (the government they supported only lasted three years after). The Americans (CIA) got what they wanted, a fundamentalist anti-women Sunni Sharia Law bulwark against neighboring Soviet countries and crazed religious terrorists to foment discord throughout the Mid East. The Taliban took over in 1994; Afghans, they had internalized much of the Wahhabi draconian doctrine, but hopefully have moderated. The US will not tolerate a secular Afghanistan (like Turkey), so expect them to intervene again if Afghanistan drifts in that direction.
What about the Women, Children and innocent men Indian Occupied Kashmir, Palestine since about 70 years? How about women, children and innocent men of the minorities? How about Muslim women, children and men not allowed to dress the way the way they like and can't practice their religion in mosque!
Hillary is the epitome of evil. Look at those dead eyes, like a dolls eyes… Jaws Ref.
Even in that clip Hillary does not tell the whole truth.. the Soviets did not invade Afghanistan.. rather they were invited into Afghanistan by the then communist/socialist progressive govt of Afghanistan to save their asses after they assassinated their own leader Nur Tarakai in 1979 who was very unpopular with Afghans.. the prob was by assassinating Tarakai they weakened their own power.. USSR and Afghanistan had a standing treaty called "Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty" wherein the USSR agreed to provide economic and military aid to the government that came into power as a result of 1978 communist revolution in Afghanistan.. so the 1979 assassination triggered USSR to uphold the treaty and help the Communist govt regain power..