(2022-01-21). 500K jobs lost, starvation looms as US holds Afghan funds hostage. nationofchange.org As a report published Wednesday revealed the loss of over 500,000 jobs since the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan last August, critics of the Biden administration's policy of economic sanctions and freezing billions of dollars in Afghan government funds renewed warnings of a "U.S.-fueled genocide" in the starving, suffering, war-torn nation. "The Taliban barely fired …
(2022-01-21). Afghanistan Faces "Tsunami of Hunger" as U.S. Sanctions Crash Country's Economy. democracynow.org 
The World Food Program has warned Afghanistan faces a "tsunami of hunger" as the economy continues to collapse, due in part to U.S. sanctions and the freezing of Afghan assets following the Taliban takeover of Kabul. Meanwhile, President Biden once again defended his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan on Wednesday without acknowledging the humanitarian crisis that followed his exit. We speak with journalist Jane Ferguson, who recently traveled to Afghanistan to report on the collapse of basic government services and the various factors that led to the collapse of the economy, which she says was "co…
(2022-01-21). Supplies aided by China, the WFP head to Afghanistan. ecns.cn Supplies for Afghanistan aided by China and the World Food Programme (WFP) departed China via the Horgos Port in southwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Thursday and are expected to arrive in Afghanistan 10 days later.
(2022-01-20). After NATO, EU, OSCE, Kiev and West try next gambit: the UN. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com UN must use its mandate to avoid worst-case scenario for Kyiv — Ukraine's delegation [This is the method used by the U.S. and its allies against Russia over Afghanistan in 1980: Ending one 40-year war, starting another? Joe Biden's Jimmy Carter moment. Then Washington, stymied by a Soviet veto in the Security Council, moved the …
(2022-01-20). More on Brzezinski family role in reprising Afghan war in Ukraine. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com "It's not just nuts. It's dangerous. We're sleepwalking toward a conflict with a country that has more than 4,000 nuclear weapons….It's just shocking that people are not more upset by this."
(2022-01-20). Telling Lies On An International Scale. popularresistance.org The mainstream media have been replete with stories of a new Tory "red meat" initiative of right-wing policies. "Government sources" briefed the media that Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Home Secretary Priti Patel were in talks with their counterparts in Ghana and Rwanda about setting up internment camps to receive asylum seekers deported from the U.K. Apart from the fact it would be entirely illegal to deport Syrians or Afghans to Africa, I knew it to be simply impossible the story was true.
(2022-01-20). Ending one 40-year war, starting another? Joe Biden's Jimmy Carter moment. antibellum679354512.wordpress.com As the inflation rate in the U.S. approaches that of the Carter years, as Mark Brzezinski, son of the architect of the Mujahideen war in Afghanistan (and arguably all that followed there and around the world as a result), assumes…