Zero Units” backed by the U.S. made virtually no effort to distinguish noncombatants and killed with total impunity.
Source: CIA-Backed Units Killed Hundreds of Afghan Civilians in Brutal Night Raids – Truthout
Category: Afghanistan
Millions of Afghans Are Starving as US Stalls on Returning Central Bank Funds
In September, the U.S. created a foundation that was supposed to unfreeze Afghanistan’s foreign assets. Yet, interviews with trustees reveal that, in three months, no funds have been disbursed—or concrete plans made—to help the Afghan people.
US fuels Afghan crisis
A Saudi Woman Given 34-Year Prison Sentence for Using Twitter
A Saudi student at Leeds University who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissidents and activists.
Source: Saudi Woman Given 34-Year Prison Sentence for Using Twitter | Portside
‘Afghan people are boiling grass to eat’ while the US refuses to release frozen assets
The Biden administration has ruled out releasing roughly $7 billion of frozen U.S.-held Afghan assets, a year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and occupation, even as the United Nations warns a staggering 95% of Afghans are not getting enough to eat.
Afghanistan sanctions
The Other Victims of US Burns Pits Were the Iraqi and Afghan People
The close to $700 billion appropriated in the PACT ACT for the next ten years will help alleviate some suffering caused by Halliburton’s war profiteering, but only for U.S. victims. It won’t do a thing for the people in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Source: Opinion | The Other Victims of US Burns Pits Were the Iraqi and Afghan People | Amy Goodman
1848+: The End(s) of History 