{"id":7372,"date":"2021-07-23T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/?p=7372"},"modified":"2021-07-23T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T13:23:00","slug":"cia-geschichten-todeskommandos-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/opinions\/cia-geschichten-todeskommandos-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"CIA Stories: Death Squads in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-md-center\">\n<div class=\"col-md-8 pb-3\">\n<p><strong>EDITORIAL PICK: CIA Stories: Death Squads in Afghanistan<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span>In this week&#8217;s editorial selection for our Import program, we select a video produced by The Empire Files and narrated by Abby Martin that examines the CIA&#8217;s role in Afghanistan both historically and now as the U.S. military withdraws from Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Empire Files description: As the US Empire makes its major military retreat from Afghanistan, learn about the CIA forces that will be staying behind\u2014and their disturbing 20-year track record of war crimes.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To read the transcript of this video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/CIA-Stories_-Death-Squads-in-Afghanistan.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIA Stories | Death Squads in Afghanistan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: Part 2 &#8211; CIA Stories: Death Squads in Afghanistan<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CIA Stories: Death Squads in Afghanistan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cgFVqxc0DKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>VIDEO: Part 1 &#8211;\u00a0 CIA Stories: The CIA is Born<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CIA Stories: The CIA is Born\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P_REZ1083_s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To watch our entire video playlist with Abby Martin,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3mdCcaX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Donate today to support independent &amp; non-profit media!<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0or on the picture below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/en\/donate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/28_acTVism_Webseite_Donation-Image_EN_700x233px_Future-300x100.jpg 300w\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>ABOUT ABBY MARTIN<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/abby_martin_black_white_actvism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.actvism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/abby_martin_black_white_actvism-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"67\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a>Abby Martin<\/strong>\u00a0is a visual artist and independent journalist. She is the founder of Media Roots, board member of Project Censored, former host of RT\u2019s Breaking the Set, creator and host of The Empire Files on teleSUR.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Abby Martin\u2019s work, visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theempirefiles.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/theempirefiles.tv\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&#8217;s editorial selection for our Import program, we select a video produced by The Empire Files and narrated by Abby Martin that examines the CIA&#8217;s role in Afghanistan both historically and now as the U.S. military withdraws from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,886],"tags":[],"channel":[],"class_list":["post-7372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-opinions"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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