Inside US Afghanistan pullout, CIA opium ratline, pipeline conflict, new cold war

Moderate Rebels live: Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the US military pullout from Afghanistan with journalist Pepe Escobar, who has extensive experience reporting in the country and was even arrested by the Taliban. We will talk about the 20-year US/NATO war, opium ratline the CIA used to fund dirty covert ops, fight over geostrategic pipelines, and estimated $1 trillion worth of untapped mineral reserves, as well as Washington’s “pivot to Asia“ and how Afghanistan is central in the new cold war on China and Russia. It starts at 2 pm ET / 11 am PT / 1800 UTC After the stream, join Ben Norton for the launch of his show Propaganda Today over at Rokfin, where he will discuss how the US government gave birth to the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan: