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President Biden has announced that the U.S. will be withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan by September 11th, ending America’s longest war. Today on the show we’ll talk about what military…

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President Biden has announced that the U.S. will be withdrawing all troops from Afghanistan by September 11th, ending America’s longest war. Today on the show we’ll talk about what military presence in Afghanistan has, and hasn’t, accomplished, and what will be the result of withdraw from a military standpoint, and from the standpoint of Afghan peace and stability. Joining us is PHYLLIS BENNIS, Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, and WESLEY MORGAN, a foreign correspondent and author of The Hardest Place: The American Military Adrift in Afghanistan’s Pech Valley. And we’ll talk with NILOFAR SAKHI, a lecturer at George Washington University about how this decision could impact women’s rights in Afghanistan.

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Listen to the full interview at WHYY.

Tope Folarin, the son of Nigerian immigrants and a 2004 graduate of Morehouse College, has won the Whiting Award for fiction.

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Read the full article at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The winners of this year’s Whiting Awards have been announced; the $50,000 prize is aimed at allowing emerging writers to focus full-time on their work — or to branch off in new directions.

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Read the full article at NPR.

Billionaires like Bill Gates have long said that they, theoretically, would be in favor of paying much more money in personal taxes.

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Read the full article at Vox.

President Joe Biden is moving full steam ahead with a political agenda that has split the difference between his ambitious campaign platform and his centrist Democratic Party roots. Promoting an ambitious $2.3 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan, the President is facing stiff opposition from the GOP and even some conservative members of his own party. But polling data shows he could be even bolder as the American people are ready for big government investment in updating our failing infrastructure in a way that creates new, well-paid and secure jobs. According to my guest, the Pentagon and wealthy tax cheats alone account for about the same cost as the President’s proposal.

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Read the full article at Rising Up With Sonali.

An update on the rising tensions in the Middle East, as the U.S. is in talks with Iran. Meanwhile, a nuclear facility in Iran was attacked and Iran claims it was an Israeli attack. It remains to be seen how this impacts the U.S.-Iran talks. We speak with Middle East expert Phyllis Bennis. Phyllis directs the New Internationalism Project at The Institute for Policy Studies, focusing on U.S. Middle East and war policy. She also serves on the board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her most recent books include Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.”

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Listen to the full interview at Sojourner Truth Radio.

Chuck Collins, author of “The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions,” discusses economic inequality and how the ”Wealth Defense Industry” uses a wide range of trusts, foundations, offshore shell companies and fake losses to hide over $30 trillion from being taxed.

Watch the full interview at Global Connections Television.

On March 6, thousands of farmers in India blocked a major six-lane highway bordering the capital city of New Delhi for five hours. The demonstration marked 100 days of one of the largest protest movements in history. Farmers from nearby agricultural regions have been camping out at border points around New Delhi since November to protest three agriculture reform bills enacted in September by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The government claimed that the bills will deregulate the market for agricultural goods, raising farmers’ income and bringing in much-needed development to a sector that contributes 18 percent of India’s GDP.

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Read the full article at Sierra Club.

The Biden administration’s $2.2 trillion infrastructure plan promises to seed a transformation toward a more democratic energy system, but its embrace of “next-generation” technologies may spark environmental justice battles, analysts say.

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Read the full article at E&E News.

Life is gray around P.T. Barnum Apartments, a housing complex for low-income residents in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where Monica Jackson grew up and lived until recently. Within just a few minutes’ walk of the community are a highway, an asphalt plant, a waste-to-energy plant, and a sewage treatment plant. You can’t get a single breath of fresh air, Jackson said, and the noise pollution is inescapable.

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Read the full article at Salon.

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