2022-08-29: News Headlines

_____ (2022-08-29). Ukraine And The Politics Of Permanent War. popularresistance.org No one, including the most bullish supporters of Ukraine, expect the nation's war with Russia to end soon. The fighting has been reduced to artillery duels across hundreds of miles of front lines and creeping advances and retreats. Ukraine, like Afghanistan, will bleed for a very long time. This is by design. | On, the Biden administration announced yet another massive military aid package to Ukraine worth nearly $3 billion. It will take months, and in some cases years, for this military equipment to reach Ukraine. In another sign that Washington assumes the conflict will be a long war of attrition it w…

Staff (2022-08-29). Afghanistan: One Year of Taliban Rule, Event Transcript. cepr.net marked one year since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, and the Biden administration's subsequent decision to block the Afghan central bank from accessing roughly $7 billion of its international reserves held in the United States. In that year, Afghanistan has become home to the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with more than half the population facing acute food insecurity, and near-universal poverty. | In advance of that anniversary,

Jessica Corbett (2022-08-29). US Judge Says Billions in Seized Central Bank Funds Belong to Afghan People. commondreams.org The judge's report, said a Center for Constitutional Rights attorney, "provides some hope that the people of Afghanistan will have access to the resources they so desperately need."

Dr. Steven Kwon (2022-08-29). One Year Later, the US Must Evacuate the Kabul Drone Strike Survivors. aclu.org One year ago, my phone rang in California at what I knew was 2: 00 a.m. in Afghanistan. It was the country director of Nutrition & Education International, the non-profit food aid organization I founded 18 years ago and lead as president. "Dr. Kwon, Zemari is no longer with us," he told me. "Zemari has died with his children due to a drone strike." In my immediate shock, this news hardly made any sense at all. | Zemari was one of the first six people NEI ever hired. He grew up poor, like many Afghans, and started with us in 2006 as a handyman. He never attended school for formal training, but was extraordinaril…

Dave DeCamp (2022-08-28). Taliban Says US Drones are Entering Afghan Airspace Through Pakistan. news.antiwar.com The Taliban's acting defense minister said Sunday that US drones have been entering Afghan airspace through Pakistan. "According to our information the drones are entering through Pakistan to Afghanistan, they use Pakistan's airspace, we ask Pakistan, don't use your airspace against us," said Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob. Pakistan has yet to comment on the …

Prof Michel Chossudovsky (2022-08-28). Video: The Dangers of Nuclear War are "REAL": Michel Chossudovsky. globalresearch.ca While one can conceptualize the loss of life and destruction resulting from present-day wars including Iraq and Afghanistan, it is impossible to fully comprehend the devastation which might result from a Third World War, using "new technologies" and advanced weapons, until it occurs and becomes a reality.

Staff (2022-08-28). 7 killed, injured after explosion hit Afghanistan's Kunar. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN (MNA) — Afghan news sources on Sunday reported that a bomb explosion occurred in Kunar leaving 7 people killed and injured.

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