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Chris Hedges: Americans dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan -- like the Brits and Soviets before them

Aug 30, 2021 View Original Article
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    -40% Somewhat Liberal

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  • Policy Leaning

    20% Somewhat Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -61% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Military spending and war are the engine behind the nation's economic survival and identity.
46% : And expect the same imperial heartlessness Madeline Albright, then the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, exhibited when she told "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl that the deaths of half a million Iraqi children because of the sanctions was "worth it."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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