19 August 2021 — Tricontinental
Malina Suliman (Afghanistan), Girl in the Ice Box, 2013.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
On Sunday, 15 August, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani fled his country for Uzbekistan. He left behind a capital city, Kabul, which had already fallen into the hands of the advancing Taliban forces. Former President Hamid Karzai announced that he had formed a coordination council with Abdullah Abdullah, the head of the National Reconciliation Committee, and jihadi leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Karzai called on the Taliban to be prudent as they entered Kabul’s presidential palace and took charge of the state.
Ken Loach. (Photo: via Facebook)
What is abundantly clear is that the U.S. has not been thrown out of Afghanistan. Quite the opposite. 
The New Dark Age 