Category Archives: International

Robert Crews, a historian at Stanford University specializing in Afghanistan and central Asia, tells CNN’s John Vause he believes the Trump administration’s 2020 deal with the Taliban played a role in the group’s takeover of the country.
— Read on edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/08/17/afghanistan-trump-deal-robert-crews-sot-nr-intl-hnk-vpx.cnn

One year ago, the Donald released 5000 Taliban fighters in exchange for a cease-fire to help his flailing presidential campaign, despite strenuous objections from both the Pentagon and the Afghan government. President Ashraf Ghani warned that their release would be a “danger to the world.”
— Read on www.alternet.org/2021/08/trump-taliban/

Biden is standing by his decision to pull out U.S. forces and contractors, but the Republican Party appears to be tiptoeing backward from Trump’s role.
— Read on theweek.com/afghanistan-war/1003748/gop-takes-down-2020-page-touting-trumps-historic-peace-agreement-with-the

Solarpunk is art movement that imagines a world where technology is used for the good of the planet.
— Read on www.bbc.com/news/business-57761297

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign broke into the email accounts of some of the most prominent federal prosecutors’ offices around the country last year, the Justice Department said Friday.
— Read on apnews.com/article/technology-europe-russia-election-2020-5486323e455277b39cd3283d70a7fd64

A New York federal court has ordered US craft store Hobby Lobby to forfeit an ancient artifact purchased at a 2014 auction that “originated in the area of modern-day Iraq and entered the United States contrary to federal law,” the Justice Department announced Tuesday.
— Read on edition.cnn.com/2021/07/27/politics/epic-of-gilgamesh-hobby-lobby/