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How war targets the young
Dec 22, 2019 16:45“At home or abroad, whether we know it or not, in the post-9/11 years, war has targeted the young. It’s not a pretty sight”, says Andrea Mazzarino, co-founder of Brown University’s Costs of War Project.
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Tragedies of the Afghan war
Dec 20, 2019 19:07Previously classified memos dubbed the “Afghanistan Papers” containing 2,000 pages of interviews with senior US officials and others directly involved in the war effort have now revealed how public perceptions on the war were constructed and fed to the American people in a bid to hide the dark side of this misadventure.
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The Afghanistan war is more than a $1 trillion mistake; It's a travesty
Dec 20, 2019 18:52“The United States has so far doled out nearly one trillion dollars for the war in Afghanistan (the true cost of the war will be trillions more) and everyone’s on the take: from defense industry executives, lobbyists and US political campaign coffers to poppy farmers to anyone and anything in between”, says Ben Armbruster, the managing editor of ResponsibleStatecraft.org, the news and analysis publishing platform of the Quincy Institute. This article has been published in the Guardian.
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The Afghanistan papers confirm America's longest war is a lie
Dec 16, 2019 16:47“The Washington Post’s Afghanistan Papers, detailing a true history of the nation’s longest official war, reveals nothing new about the war’s futility or about the fact that it was doomed to failure from almost the beginning”, says Sonali Kolhatkar, a columnist for Truthdig website under the heading: “The Afghanistan papers confirm America's longest war is a lie. “
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ICC holds hearing on Afghanistan war crimes, including US torture
Dec 15, 2019 11:30The International Criminal Court (ICC) opened a three-day hearing in the Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday at which prosecutors and Afghan torture victims are attempting to convince the court to overturn a previous decision to refuse to investigate war crimes committed by Taliban and US forces.
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The effects and consequences of US Congress’ endless permissions for war
Dec 12, 2019 13:32More than 7,000 US service members have been killed and more than 50,000 wounded in the wars since 9/11. Of the 2.5 million troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan it is estimated as many as 20% are afflicted with PTSD, while 20% more may have traumatic brain injury.
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Time to change the refugee narrative?
Dec 04, 2019 13:29As walls and fences go up, so do the dramatic increases in migrant deaths. The Associated Press reports that 56,800 people died or went missing crossing a border from 2014-18.
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Vietnam vs. Afghanistan – matched mayhem, ceaseless war
Nov 20, 2019 10:39The magnitude of US war crimes is on the increase and despite the western media’s efforts to distract attention, it is evident that Washington’s state terrorism is destroying countries and ruining the lives of scores of millions of people worldwide.
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Life in the most drone-bombed country in the world
Nov 06, 2019 18:11As of August 31 this year, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism had documented at least 4,251 aerial strikes in Afghanistan for 2019, more than double the total for the whole of 2018. Most of these, it says, are thought to be by drones. These attacks are exacting an increasing toll on the Afghan people.
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CIA death squads operate globally
Nov 03, 2019 11:04Since former US President George W. Bush and his Vice President Dick Cheney preemptively attacked Afghanistan without just cause in October 2001, the CIA and US Special Forces have been involved in extrajudicial killings, torture and other atrocities in the country, wanting elements opposed to US aggression and occupation eliminated.