Afghanistan
AFGHANISTAN’S FIRST FEMALE RAPPER: Speaking Out Has Come at a Price
Life hasn’t always been easy for this aspiring artist. In the past seven years, the 27-year-old Muslim has been forced to flee her country twice, received more death threats than she can remember, and was brutally beaten by 10 men and left for dead. Treated worse than a criminal for CHOOSING to wear a baseball …
GOV’T WASTE: US Planes Worth $500M Sold For Scrap In Afghanistan – for only $32,000
A US watchdog is asking why 16 planes bought for the Afghan Air Force, costing almost $500 million, were turned into scrap metal valued at just $32,000. The government wants to know why hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ money were wasted on the project. The military transport planes had been sitting at Kabul International Airport …
Joe “Walking Gaffe” Biden claims that Iraq/Afghan vets are superior to any other generation
By Thomas Madison “I have it up to here (I envision Crazy Uncle Joe grabbing his crotch) with people talking about the older generation, how this generation doesn’t measure up,” Biden said. “You exceed the measure of any other generation.” Entertaining a crowd at a barbecue honoring American soldiers who were participating in the Invictus …
US Marine who urinated on Taliban corpses found dead
A Marine who was prosecuted for a 2011 video that depicted he and other Marines urinating on corpses of Taliban members was found dead on Wednesday. His death did not appear to be a suicide, his lawyer told Marine Corps Times. Retired Cpl. Robert Richards, 28, died at his home in Jacksonville, North Carolina, according to Guy …