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US is effectively stealing billions from a nation ravaged by a US-initiated war
Feb 20, 2022 14:16The Biden administration is threatening the well-being of millions of Afghans, while also undermining the ability of civil society organizations to respond to the crisis.
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Massive folly: Biden’s 2023 defense budget could top $800 billion
Feb 20, 2022 06:29Sources 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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UN food agency says 95% of people in Afghanistan do not have enough to eat
Feb 20, 2022 05:49The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) says 95 percent of people in Afghanistan “do not have enough to eat,” as the United States has frozen Afghan government assets worth billions of dollars and international sanctions against the ruling Taliban have plunged the Asian country into a full-blown economic crisis.
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Iran FM warns of Afghan refugee crisis, Yemen disaster in meeting with UN chief
Feb 19, 2022 09:56Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned of the burden of a new wave of refugees from Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Taliban takeover of the Central Asian country and also stated that the ongoing Yemen crisis has reached a critical point that requires concerted international efforts.
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'Love to Afghanistan' vigils to demand return of $7 billion stolen by US
Feb 19, 2022 06:56With 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 05:18Biden 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 05:07All 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 14:59This 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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China slams US seizure of Afghanistan’s assets as ‘conduct of bandits’
Feb 17, 2022 04:36China has condemned the United States’ decision to seize Afghanistan’s frozen assets amid a mounting humanitarian crisis, saying the conduct is no different from that of “bandits.”
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Ilhan Omar blasts 'unconscionable' Biden plan to seize Afghan assets
Feb 15, 2022 16:14As 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.