Afghan Refugee: “I Blame America” For What Happened To My Family
For 5 years the American military trained Afghans to fly the A-29 Super Tucano, a light attack aircraft intended to provide support for American led airstrikes. But the Americans also helped the Afghan pilots in another arena – killing innocent civilians. Before 2016,...
Afghanistan: How the Americans Trained Afghan Pilots To Be Indiscriminate
Hey, remember the War on Terror? Remember the 20 year war in Afghanistan that was fought under the 'War on Terror' banner? It's ok. We know. You remember it but you barely ever think about it. Emerging from the dust inside Afghanistan are the unsettling stories of...
Protestors gather in New York to mark anniversary of Jan 6 uprising
For some Americans, the January 6th uprising in the state capital was treason. But for others, including a small group of protestors in New York, it has become a rallying cry symbolizing the need to remake America. Former President Donald Trump encouraged his...
Scared and Sober(ish): How the Dean Blundell Podcast Saved My Life
We all have that one friend who just can’t get his shit together, that guy you’ve known since grade school who manages to interrupt one colossal failure with yet another colossal failure, who is always broke as fuck, and who could never hold down a romantic...
Why does America keep spying on their closest allies?
Another G7 Summit is over, and with it two political traditions that never go away; leaders from the G7 can’t take a decent photo together, and America keeps getting caught spying on their supposed allies. This time it was discovered through an internal investigation...
Can we please stop pretending an apology from the Catholic Church means something?
Last week Canadian media began reporting on a horrific discovery in Kamloops; a mass grave of 215 children found on the grounds of an already-infamous residential school. Just like most of the other residential schools, this Kamloops version of hell on Earth for...