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U.S. post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows
Wars the U.S. waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today, according to studies by Brown University.
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Foreign devils on the road to Afghanistan
On March 7, the western powers huddled together in Paris for a restricted meeting on Taliban and the Afghanistan situation.
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Doing business with Taliban Govt
In no time after the retreat from Afghanistan, NATO is already immersed in another proxy war in Europe, and the alliance, at U.S. behest, is lurching toward the Arctic to counter Russia and China’s “big plans for the polar region.”
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Over 70 economists call for Biden Administration to return Afghanistan’s Central Bank reserves
“The people of Afghanistan have been made to suffer doubly for a government they did not choose.”
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Investigation finds evidence of war crimes by UK special forces in Afghanistan
A years-long investigation by BBC Panorama has revealed evidence of the repeated killings of unarmed Afghan civilians and detainees by the UK’s elite Special Air Service, and the attempted cover-up.
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Afghanistan and Xinjiang
I find the best way to understand what happened in Xinjiang is to contrast it with Afghanistan.
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‘The Afghanistan Papers’ leaves a critical question unanswered
While Afghanistan may finally be free of outside military occupation, Afghans are still suffering the deadly consequences of 40 years of U.S.-led subversion and war.
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Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts
Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they’re spouting the slogans they’ve been programmed to spout and waving the flags the flags they’ve been programmed to wave and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants in that moment.
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China’s diplomacy on a roll in Kabul
Last Thursday, the Acting Foreign Minister of the Taliban interim government Amir Khan Muttaqi made a stunning remark to greet the visiting Chinese Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Kabul when he said, “This is the most important high-level delegation received by Afghanistan.”
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Biden’s multi-Billion Afghan theft gets scant mention on TV News
Two months ago (FAIR.org, 12/21/21), I noted the striking contrast between vocal media outrage—ostensibly grounded in concern for Afghan people—over President Joe Biden’s withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, and the relative silence over the growing humanitarian crisis in that country, which threatens millions with life-threatening levels of famine.
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‘Thank you for hearing our Afghan pain’
People in the United States must recognize the suffering their country continues inflicting in Afghanistan.
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When cruelty is the point – U.S. decides to kill more Afghan people
Last summer, after decades of killing Afghans in Afghanistan, the U.S. government decides to move its occupation forces out of that country.
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Tariq Ali: ‘Democracy is largely a set of rituals now’
“There is no socialist blueprint. If you think there is a socialist blueprint, then you will only be a utopian. The formation of economic policies has to be done with the collaboration of those on whose behalf you are going to change structures.”
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We dance into the New Year banging our hammers and swinging our sickles: The Fifty-Second Newsletter (2021)
Bittersweet is the passage of this year. There have been some immense victories and some catastrophic defeats, the most terrible being the failure of the Global North countries to adopt a democratic attitude towards confronting the COVID-19 pandemic and creating equitable access to key resources, from life-saving medical equipment to vaccines.
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Chaos, poverty and hunger – The U.S. legacy in Afghanistan
The U.S.-led mission fled the Afghanistan front of their so-called “war on terror,” leaving nothing but trash, extreme poverty and universal unemployment.
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Out of Afghanistan
This long bloody madness has ended.
Can we learn to love peace at last?
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‘The invasion of Afghanistan was a fraud’: an interview with John Pilger
The Taliban were a convenient target to satisfy a political lust for revenge for 9/11.
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China calls for investigation into U.S. massacres of civilians in Afghanistan
On Wednesday, September 1, Chinese Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said that the massacres of civilians committed by the US military in Afghanistan during 20 years of occupation and war should be fully investigated.
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Taliban faces US destabilization from within
At the weekly briefing in Moscow on Thursday by the Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that Russia will consider recognising Afghanistan’s new authorities once an inclusive government is formed in the country.
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Afghanistan withdrawal is a shock to the Israel lobby
Military occupations excite violent resistance throughout history. The U.S. has given up the fantasy of transforming Afghanistan. This removes Israel’s cover for its occupation and is generating panic among Israel’s friends.