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Massive folly: Biden’s 2023 defense budget could top $800 billion
Feb 20, 2022 09:59Sources 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.
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'Love to Afghanistan' vigils to demand return of $7 billion stolen by US
Feb 19, 2022 10:26With the people of Afghanistan facing one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world, U.S.-based peace activists—who largely blame the policies of their own government for inflicting pain on millions of innocent Afghans—are using Valentine's Day on Monday to demand the Biden administration return billions of dollars of seized assets to the war-torn country before more lasting harm and "cruelty" is done.
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Biden’s decision on frozen Afghanistan money is tantamount to mass murder
Feb 18, 2022 08:48Biden is crushing the Afghan economy by seizing $3.5 billion of its people’s money and diverting the other $3.5 billion for a trust fund “to benefit the Afghan people.”
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60 years of war-making may yet result in the destruction of US democracy (1)
Feb 18, 2022 08:37All those trillions of dollars consumed in wasteful wars have helped foster a creeping pessimism in Americans—a pessimism spawned by corporate elites increasingly consumed by greed.
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Biden commits a grave injustice against the Afghan people
Feb 17, 2022 18:29This is theft on a massive scale, and it is being done at a time when Afghanistan desperately needs an infusion of funds.
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Ilhan Omar blasts 'unconscionable' Biden plan to seize Afghan assets
Feb 15, 2022 19:44As U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar led condemnation of a reported Biden administration plan to permanently seize $7 billion of currently frozen Afghan assets and distribute half to relatives of 9/11 victims, advocates pointed to the worsening humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and urged President Joe Biden to change course.
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US sanctions caused mass civilian deaths in Iraq. Afghan civilians are up next (2)
Feb 12, 2022 11:29The Biden administration is ignoring desperate pleas from humanitarian organizations and UN human rights bodies, choosing instead to maintain policies virtually guaranteed to cause mass starvation and death of civilians, especially children.
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US sanctions caused mass civilian deaths in Iraq. Afghan civilians are up next (1)
Feb 11, 2022 08:48The Biden administration is ignoring desperate pleas from humanitarian organizations and UN human rights bodies, choosing instead to maintain policies virtually guaranteed to cause mass starvation and death of civilians, especially children.
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$778 billion and counting: Who's paying for all this Pentagon waste? (2)
Feb 07, 2022 14:32It can't be emphasized enough just how many taxpayer dollars are now being showered on the Pentagon.
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Biden lies again as he covertly continues the US forever war against the Afghan people
Jan 30, 2022 10:43Following its imperial playbook, the U.S. sanctions imposed on Afghanistan are aimed at destabilizing Afghan civil society, making daily life so unbearable that the Afghan people eventually blame the Taliban for their misery, providing the United States and its proxies an opening to enact regime change.