U.S. Sanctions on Afghanistan Could Be Deadlier Than 20 Years of War
This collective punishment is hideously wrong and immoral. The Biden administration can remove the biggest contributing factor with the stroke of a pen. They should do so immediately before it is too late
View ArticleBiden Must Immediately Unfreeze Afghanistan’s Assets and End Sanctions
The worst humanitarian catastrophe on earth is unfolding before our eyes
View ArticleBiden’s Multi-Billion Afghan Theft Gets Scant Mention on TV News
Despite their wailing about the Taliban’s impact on Afghan women’s futures, few in US TV news seem concerned about those same women facing starvation as a result of US policy
View ArticleBiden’s Sanctions on Afghanistan
The economic sanctions imposed by the United States and its allies are causing widespread, severe hunger in this desperately poor country
View ArticleWomen’s Delegation Urges U.S. & Europe to Unfreeze Afghan Funds
Interview on the release of funding for Afghan civilians
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From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, Killing Civilians is a Crime
Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, filling our screens with bombed buildings and dead bodies lying in the street. But the United States and its...
View ArticleNonstop Corporate News on Ukraine Is Fueling Support for Unchecked US Militarism
Source: Truthout The drums of fascism are beating louder. The catastrophe of war and outpouring of support for the millions of Ukrainians suffering under the brutal attacks by Russia has morphed into...
View ArticleAfghan-American Groups Challenge Illegal Seizure of Billions by US
"The seizure of funds would be a deep and grave injustice adding to the continued suffering for the Afghan people that would be felt for generations"
View ArticleAfghanistan Is Starving, but the Taliban Can Only Govern Women’s Clothing
There is an unprecedented economic and humanitarian crisis as the Taliban, divided and without a strategy, rely on edicts against women and repression
View Article9/11 Families Call on Biden to Confront Afghan Humanitarian Crisis
The United Nations now estimates that roughly half the population of Afghanistan is currently facing acute hunger
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War Scars the Earth. To Heal, We Must Cultivate Hope, not Harm
“No War 2022, July 8 – 10,” hosted by World BEYOND War, will consider major and growing threats faced in today’s world. Emphasizing “Resistance and Regeneration,” the conference will feature...
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To end ‘hell on earth’ the US must free Afghanistan’s $7bn reserves
“Hell on earth.” That’s how the World Food Programme’s executive director, David Beasley, describes the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Twenty million people – nearly half the...
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Biden’s Assassination of al-Qaeda Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Was Illegal
President Joe Biden’s assassination of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan was illegal under both U.S. and international law. After the CIA drone strike killed Zawahiri on August 2, Biden...
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70+ Economists Say US Must Return $7 Billion Stolen From Afghan People
More than 70 economists and other academic experts sent a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday urging them to allow Afghanistan’s central bank to access...
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Taliban In Power – One Year On
On 15 August 2021, the world looked on with trepidation as the situation in Afghanistan reached a critical juncture with the Afghan Taliban assuming power in the country. The takeover was swift, and...
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Richest Country on Earth to One of Its Poorest: We’re Keeping the Money We...
Exactly a year after the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan’s government, the Biden administration said it would not return any of the $7 billion in Afghan central bank assets that it commandeered...
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Action Alert: Tell USA Today to Tell Whole Story on Afghan Withdrawal
“The Fall of Afghanistan, One Year Later: Chaos and Uncertainty Have Become Way of Life,” was the front-page USA Today headline (8/15/22), suggesting that “chaos and uncertainty” is the result of last...
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End The Collective Punishment Of Afghans
A year has now passed since the tumultuous U.S. withdrawal from decades of war and occupation in Afghanistan. With the Taliban functionally in charge, the country faces a deteriorating humanitarian...
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NPR Devotes Almost Two Hours to Afghanistan Over Two Weeks—and 30 Seconds to...
NPR ran several stories on Afghanistan to mark the anniversary of the August 2021 US withdrawal, even sending host Steve Inskeep to the country to produce a series of pieces. His visit happened to...
View ArticleNo Way Home
On September 11, 2001, we were children, living with our families as refugees in Iran and Pakistan, like more than 3 million other Afghans at the time. The U.S. bombing campaign to oust the Taliban...
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US Announces Fund to Benefit Afghan Economy—Using Stolen Afghan Bank Reserves
Rights organizations on Thursday responded to a new Biden administration plan to use $3.5 billion in U.S.-held Afghan funds to “help mitigate the economic challenges” facing the people of Afghanistan...
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Biden’s Afghan Shell Game Prompts Media Shrugs and Stenography
More than a year after it froze $7 billion of Afghanistan’s central bank reserves in the wake of the Taliban’s military victory, the US has announced it will use half the money to establish a fund at a...
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Where the Heart Is
During our visits to Kabul, Afghanistan from 2009 to 2019, young friends who welcomed me and other international guests to their urban community showed us enormously creative ways to practice...
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Brotherhood and Friendship in a Time of War
Kathy Kelly provides her reflections on Jeffery E. Stern’s book The Mercenary, A Story of Brotherhood & Terror in the Afghanistan War. Salman Rushdie once commented that those who are displaced by...
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The US Versus The Afghan People: 15 million Afghans On The Verge of Famine
Last Monday two United Nations (UN) agencies, the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Food Programme (WFP), jointly released a report flagging Afghanistan as a hotspot “of highest concern,”...
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US Experience in Afghanistan Offers Lessons for Ukraine, if Leaders Will Heed...
On the second anniversary of the final debacle of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, we should consider the lessons of that disaster for U.S. strategy elsewhere. While the case of Afghanistan itself is...
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America’s War in Afghanistan Devastated the Country’s Environment in Ways...
Birds dip between low branches that hang over glittering brooks along the drive from Jalalabad heading south toward the Achin district of Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province. Then, the landscape changes,...
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Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda
Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been making the rounds ever since the rise of U.S. imperialism in the late 1800s. The quip (which, despite...
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The October 7th America Has Forgotten
We Americans have been at war now since October 7th, 2001. That was when our military first launched air strikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to al-Qaeda’s September 11th terrorist...
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