Dr. Thomas Dobbs and other Mississippi state health officials are urging residents not to take ivermectin formulated for livestock as a way to treat or prevent COVID-19.

Mississippi health officials are pleading with residents not to take a medicine meant for cows and horses as an alternative to getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Since the Taliban seized the capital Kabul on August 15, the US has been carrying out the evacuation in coordination with the Taliban, who have held off on attacking under a 2020 withdrawal deal with the Trump administration. However, the Pentagon says the US hasn't ruled out keeping its forces in Afghanistan past the current deadline. Britain and France are pressing for an extension to allow more people to be airlifted to safety.

The Taliban have rejected the possibility foreign troops could stay in Afghanistan to continue evacuations past the August 31 deadline.

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Retired Adm. Mike Mullen, the top U.S. military officer under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, who strongly supported the “nation-building” war policy in Afghanistan, now says we should have pulled out our troops a decade ago, soon after Osama bin Laden was killed.

Mullen is thus far the only senior officer from that period who has publicly admitted that the U.S. policy—and he personally—was deeply mistaken. 

 

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August 21 2021 John Rothmann - The Taliban and the Rise of the Islamic State

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John Rothmann - Vaccine Non Compliance in the Military

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John Rothmann - Jan Wahl on Bio Pics

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John Rothmann - Pulling Out of Afghanistan

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John Rothmann - Why the Concert in NYC

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Vice President Kamala Harris will arrive next week in Vietnam at a moment when many Americans are again debating the final hours of the war there — with some comparing the recent chaos in Afghanistan to the fall of Saigon in 1975, when Americans frantically fled the U.S. Embassy by helicopter. Biden administration officials did not anticipate the debacle in Afghanistan when they started planning Harris’ trip to Singapore and Vietnam, her second foreign journey as vice president, and they bristle at the comparisons. But in some ways, analysts and experts say, the timing of the trip allows the United States to reassert its stature in the region at a moment when its reputation as a world power has been battered elsewhere.

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