by Mark Angelides | Aug 30, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, International
With just hours to go before the August 31 deadline for withdrawal of all U.S. citizens, allies, and military from Afghanistan, the situation at Kabul airport is deteriorating quickly. In the early hours of Monday morning (August 30), several rockets were launched...
by Dave Patterson | Aug 26, 2021 | Articles, International
Shortly after 7 p.m. Eastern Time on August 25, the U.S. State Department issued a dire warning to Americans in Afghanistan: don’t go near the Kabul Hamid Karzai International Airport. For the Biden administration, the Kabul catastrophe just gets worse. The...
by Mark Angelides | Aug 18, 2021 | Articles, International
With thousands of Americans and Afghans attempting to flee the now Taliban-led country of Afghanistan, U.S. officials are urging all those who seek escape to make their way to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. But with obfuscated messaging via the Biden...
by Leesa K. Donner | Aug 16, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, International
Multiple news reports indicate the situation at Kabul International Airport is unraveling rapidly this morning. U.S. ground forces fired shots in the air to gain control of the situation as thousands of desperate Afghanis breached the runways. Reuters is reporting all...
by Graham J Noble | Jun 14, 2021 | Articles, Opinion, Political Humor
Flying commercial airlines is more dangerous, these days, than it used to be, but that is not because the planes are less safe, the pilots less competent or because climate change is causing airliners to fall out of the sky. No, it’s because one is more likely,...