Joining Bringing Light Into Darkness is Capt. Matthew Hoh, a former USMC Captain and State Department Officer who was an Iraq War combat veteran and Afghanistan War State Department officer. Matt had nearly twelve years’ experience with the US military and the wars overseas with the United States Marine Corps, Department of Defense and State Department.
In 2009, Matthew Hoh resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matt took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-2005 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-2007 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matt worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-2008.
Tonight, we present as a microcosm of most all US interventions since WWII, the body of lies presented to the US public regarding the US-Afghanistan War. The investigative journalist and former US State Department employee and Iraq and Afghan US war veteran Matt Hoh walks us through, the Afghanistan War of some two decades long. In light of the US unsubstantiated claims of Venezuela drug trafficking as a false pretext for yet another unjust war, we ask Matt to provide an overview of the US historical role in the Vietnam era as well as the Central American and Afghanistan eras of US promoted drug proliferation worldwide from the 1950s through our August 2021 withdraw from Afghanistan.
Additionally, Matt with a particular focus on Afghanistan, details the incredible levels of lies and the depth of corruption in the ‘Racket’ of war including the cost to Afghanis, the pathologic lying and the fleecing to and of the US taxpayers throughout contemporary US history through ‘reconstruction’ programs, as well as the myth of great advancements of women’s rights in Afghanistan. We review the recently released video content of Bodyguard of Lies, which was just released and is based on the book ‘Afghanistan Papers by Craig Whitlock, in which Matt reveals the US spent $300 million a day for 20 years.
Siempre fieles, Pgatos 9/29/25 pgatos00@gmail.com If you are not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. Malcolm X