Two decades have passed since Afghanistan was invaded by NATO’s  US-led ‘Coalition of the willing’. Now the country looks like it may fall once again into the hands of the Taliban, who have occupied most of the country. NATO's project of regime change has failed. After the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, Afghanistan’s notorious Taliban regime was partly blamed for the attack to its alleged links to chief suspect Osama Bin Laden.

The Taliban regime and Bin Laden denied any involvement in the attacks. In fact, in an interview for the Pakistani press shortly after the attacks, he condemned them and called them criminals, laying the blame for the crimes on an international Zionist conspiracy. But the mainstream media ignored any evidence which contradicted their sci-fi movie version of events.

Meanwhile, the Zionists were busy filling up every minute of broadcast media with stories of Taliban horrors and Bin Laden’s ‘terrorist camps’ in the Afghan mountains. To deflect from the fact that the Taliban had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, the world was overrun with all kinds of western propaganda with stories of mass rape, torture and enslavement of women. 

That was enough to drum up public support for a “crusade”, as President Bush put it, to ‘liberate’ Afghanistan from the Taliban regime, the West had helped create.

After the country’s Saur Revolution in 1978, which brought to power a Marxist regime supported by Moscow, women began to attend the new technical schools and universities opened at the time. 

But the West’s ‘human rights brigade’ would soon put an end to their new-found freedoms. US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski had a plan called the Afghan Trap. He would give the USSR their own Vietnam by forcing them to invade Afghanistan. As US-backed Mujahedin factions intensified their attacks on the secular Kabul government, threatening the borders of the USSR, Moscow fell into Brzezinski’s trap, invading the country in 1979.

US support for the Mujahedin would eventually lead to the defeat of the secular Afghan regime, plunging the country into chaos. It also led to the demise of the USSR, declining that gigantic polity into chaos. But these social and political catastrophes didn't bother Brzezinski. His plan had worked. In 1998, he stated to the French magazine Nouvel Observateur that American support for the Mujahedin had helped create Al-Qaeda, but that it was necessary for the geopolitical and ideological war against the Soviet Union.

A key component of the propaganda war against the Afghan government at the time was ‘human rights’. Amnesty International published numerous reports claiming that the Kabul regime was violating human rights, while ignoring the daily massacres carried out by the CIA-trained Mujahedin terrorists.

Brzezinski was so impressed by Amnesty International’s war propaganda that he decided to join its board of directors. Since then, the organization has been a key factor in drumming up support for imperialist wars. From the former Yugoslavia to Libya and Syria, Amnesty International reports of ‘mass rape’ and ‘genocide’ always precede Western imperialist sanctions and war against states which don’t follow their orders.

And, more often than not, the spurious reports with endless pages of ‘sources say’ and ‘activists said', were full of claims which are almost impossible to verify. It is hardly surprising therefore, that we read sensational reports in the Western press this week about human rights violations in Ethiopia and Eritrea.

Amnesty claimed that Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers are carrying out a campaign of ‘mass rape’ against Tigrayan women. Of course, there is no evidence to substantiate any of the claims. But that doesn’t matter. As the Taliban now looks poised to take over a ruined Afghanistan by over 40 years of US-fomented wars, the Western military alliance is turning its attention to the Horn of Africa: They want to break up Ethiopia into more manageable micro states, and oust Chinese influence in the process. They also want to destroy Eritrea. That little state has had the cheek to completely reject Western NGOs, human rights groups and other neo-colonial outfits from operating in its territory.

That’s why it is always referred to as a ‘brutal dictatorship.’ President Isaias Afwerki wants his country to be independent and self-sufficient - a crime for the imperialists. The media campaign of slander and lies against Eritrea has been unceasing. Much of the fake news concerns so-called 'refugees' fleeing to Europe. Many young men from the Horn of Africa migrate to Europe. Most of them seek the benefits and advantages of living here. They are economic migrants, not refugees. But the media presents them as victims of oppression, particularly victims of the Eritrean regime. In fact, to get money and free accommodation in Europe, Ethiopian migrants could just say they are fleeing the Eritrean ‘regime’. Europeans need PCR tests and vaccines to travel. But 'refugees' don't seem to have a problem because they are already completely dependent on the system and are unlikely to question the wisdom of their rulers.

In most cases, these young men are not fleeing oppression; they are, in the case of Eritrea, shirking military conscription in a country targeted by sanctions and constant destabilization by the United States and its allies. 

These migrants are being used by imperialism to destabilize and socially control European countries. It is a policy of divide and conquers: sanction and invade any country attempting to be independent, then traffic its youth to Europe to divide and conquer European nations.

The Western press plays a key role in that process. For example, the Irish Times published an article in September 2019 entitled ‘Scars and Trauma run deep for Eritrean refugees’. It featured a young man called Yoshi, who the Irish Times journalist claims is 16. Now, one only has to cast a cursory glance at him to discern that he is at least 25 or older and that he couldn’t be 16! 

In fact, that was the conclusion of the Luxembourg authorities when Yoshi tried to enter that state. And that is the problem which the Irish Times journalist is trying to highlight: The Luxembourg government had no right to suspect Yoshi was lying about his age! After all, the poor fellow is “fleeing the regime”. And we all have a moral obligation not to ask any question about people fleeing countries that imperialist human rights organizations call ‘regimes’ and ‘dictatorships’.  

As we speak, the EU regime is attempting to mass vaccinate its people against their will with experimental vaccines. But that is a form of 'mass rape' you won’t read about in the Western press. It seems in Eritrea, one is not being forced to take the jabs. Perhaps, the Eritrean government could do a deal with the West: You give us your dissidents and we’ll give you ours and that will help solve the problem of ‘mass rape!’

When famine and mass death strikes the region, the Eritrean and Ethiopian governments will be dealing with a former Tigrayan People's Liberation activist Tedros Adhanom as head of the WHO - hardly a neutral player!

Four decades of catastrophic imperialist intervention in Afghanistan - which have retarded the country's growth and deprived its youth of future - have not taught the Western military alliance any lessons. They are busy provoking more war, famine and genocide elsewhere.