(2022-08-30). Tragedy in Afghanistan should never be allowed to repeat, says Chinese envoy. ecns.cn Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, on Monday described the 20-year-war waged by foreign troops in Afghanistan as fiasco, stressing that the tragedy in Afghanistan should never be allowed to repeat.
(2022-08-30). Russia calls on US to return money stolen from Afghanistan. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (MNA) — Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya called on the US to return the money stolen from the Afghan people.
(2022-08-30). Taliban must respond to world calls to form inclusive govt. en.mehrnews.com TEHRAN, Aug. 30 (MNA) — Iran's Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN says the Taliban must respond to the repeated demands of the international community to form an inclusive government…
(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 August 24, 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…
(2022-08-29). Afghanistan: One Year of Taliban Rule, Event Transcript. cepr.net August 15, 2022 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,
(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…