Afghanistan

Continuing war against the Afghan people by starvation

Mar 27, 2022 15:50

“When the last American troop fled, the US regime immediately froze $10 billion of Afghan sovereign funds”, says Brecht Jonkers, journalist.
'Unfreeze Afghan funds' demanded after 13,000 newborns die from malnutrition

Mar 24, 2022 15:10

Human rights advocates are demanding that the United States immediately release billions of dollars which it seized from Afghanistan's Central Bank after ending its 20-year military occupation of the country last year, causing a devastating hunger crisis that has already killed thousands of Afghan newborns in 2022.
Biden's sanctions on Afghanistan could kill more civilians than two decades of war

Mar 13, 2022 10:42

22.8 million Afghans—more than half the population—are facing acute food insecurity. Lift Biden administration's hold on billions of Central Bank reserves.
The tragic US exit from Afghanistan was rooted in decades of failure

Mar 12, 2022 17:46

An important new Atlantic piece on the trauma of the withdrawal should be put in the wider context of American incompetence.
C.I.A. black sites are state secrets, the Supreme Court rules

Mar 07, 2022 15:44

The Supreme Court on Thursday (Mar. 03) shut down efforts by a detainee at Guantánamo Bay to obtain information from two former C.I.A. contractors involved in torturing him, ruling that the inquiry would impermissibly expose state secrets.
Ukraine crisis highlights West’s hypocrisy over Israeli regime’s land theft

Mar 05, 2022 20:15

The sudden concern for international law regarding Ukraine is nowhere to be found when it comes to Israeli regime’s illegal occupation and annexation of Palestinian and Syrian land, and its imposition of an apartheid regime on the entire Palestinian people – a crime against humanity.
So this is what it looks like when the corporate media opposes a war

Mar 03, 2022 18:25

Major American media outlets oppose military aggression...unless the United States is doing it.
Biden hammers a $7 billion nail into Afghanistan’s coffin

Feb 25, 2022 20:05

Letting Afghanistan slide into total economic and social ruin will have devastating consequences.
US is effectively stealing billions from a nation ravaged by a US-initiated war

Feb 20, 2022 17:46

The Biden administration is threatening the well-being of millions of Afghans, while also undermining the ability of civil society organizations to respond to the crisis.
Massive folly: Biden’s 2023 defense budget could top $800 billion

Feb 20, 2022 09:59

Sources in the Pentagon have told Reuters that the Biden administration is poised to propose a budget for national defense that could top $800 billion for FY 2023, an enormous sum that far exceeds the levels reached at the peaks of the Korean and Vietnam wars or during the Reagan buildup of the 1980s.