Afghanistan: It’s about plunder and corruption, not about women’s rights
Why the loss of Afghanistan ultimately ends the Empire Zero Hedge, 29n August, 2021 Former Fed Chairman Arthur Burns said that, “A subtle understanding of economic change comes from a knowledge of history and large affairs, not from statistics or their processing alone.” So far as large affairs go, the recent events in Afghanistan could hardly be any larger. On Sunday, 15 August Taliban fighters entered Kabul unopposed and Afghanistan’s president Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Two days later the acting Afghan central bank…
