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Estimated cost of post-9/11 US wars hits $8 trillion with nearly a million people dead
Sep 05, 2021 09:24A new analysis released recently shows the United States will ultimately spend upwards of $8 trillion and that nearly one million people have lost their lives so far in the so-called "global war on terror" that was launched after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
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US drone strike in Kabul killed a family — and began a new chapter of war
Sep 05, 2021 09:19Though U.S. forces have left Afghanistan, the war could continue with remotely controlled drone strikes — and even less accountability.
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Since 9/11, US has spent $21 trillion on militarism at home and abroad
Sep 05, 2021 09:11In the 20 years since the September 11 attacks, the United States regime has spent more than $21 trillion at home and overseas on militaristic policies that led to the creation of a vast surveillance apparatus, worsened mass incarceration, intensified the war on immigrant communities, and caused incalculable human suffering in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, and elsewhere.
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Afghanistan today, Africa tomorrow: America’s saga of failure
Sep 02, 2021 15:10The presence of extremist militant groups in Africa is providing the perfect pretext for expanding the US military footprint there. The US desperately needs new leadership before it bleeds another generation in an endless war.
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Afghanistan: The great deception
Sep 01, 2021 08:32The U.S./NATO’s rhetorical game of nation-building and democracy-building, all while funding the very forces they were officially fighting in the so-called “war on terror,” is one of the greatest deceptions of the last 20 years.
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Taliban assure world leaders they will let eligible people leave Afghanistan
Sep 01, 2021 08:27Britain's prime minister, Boris Johnson, and other world leaders have received assurances from the Taliban that foreign nationals and those with authorisation to exit Afghanistan will be free to leave, as tensions and bloodshed escalate on the streets of Kabul.
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From Afghanistan to Central America, US creates refugee crises
Aug 29, 2021 09:22The United States has a responsibility to provide a safe haven for refugees, from Afghanistan, Latin America, or elsewhere, and to cease interventions that fuel these crises and displace so many.
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Great Game in West Asia is over - and America lost
Aug 27, 2021 19:53America’s political and military establishments remain impervious to learning basic lessons. The best the US administration could do for itself, and the rest of the world, is to take a sabbatical for a decade from policing the planet.
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Western media suddenly care about Afghan women again after US departure
Aug 27, 2021 19:41Western media outlets are proving once again that Afghan women’s rights are only of interest to them when they can be used to prop up imperialism and the military industrial complex.
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Five ways US created and prolonged Afghan crisis
Aug 27, 2021 19:33Media coverage of the Taliban takeover of Kabul would lead most Americans to believe that U.S. involvement in Afghanistan began after 9/11, with the invasion launched to topple the previous Taliban government. But Afghanistan has been at war continuously for forty-two years, and the Pentagon has been involved every step of the way, under both Republican and Democratic administrations.