Afghanistan

Alan MacLeod navigates the intricate entanglement between the United States and ISIS-k in the aftermath of the deadly attack on Moscow, revealing surprising connections and consequences.

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While the British Government demonises refugees, thousands of Afghans - including British Council Teachers - are in danger of deportation back to the Taliban

America is addicted to war. But its citizens rarely see the brutal realities of the U.S. military industrial complex up close. That is because our pliant media hides the carnage from the public, refusing to report on the victims of the war machine, and uses euphemisms like "surgical strikes" and "enhanced interrogation techniques" to mask the barbarity meted out by Washington around the world.

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What are the forces driving refugees across the Channel? What are they fleeing? What are they hoping for?

It has already been called “the most successful counter-narcotics effort in human history.” Armed with little more than sticks, teams of counter-narcotics brigades travel the country, doing something the US military never could, cutting down Afghanistan’s poppy fields.

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Well over half the recent migrants come from the top 15 countries globally hardest hit by explosive weaponry

Emphasizing humanitarian aid and empowering women's self-determination and autonomy might be a better approach to creating meaningful change for women and girls than sanctions as a sole strategy.

The US has withdrawn from the war in Afghanistan, but the war profiteers are still raking in big bucks through the revolving door that is the military industrial complex.

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From Forever War to Eternal War.

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Kit Klarnberg reveals the industrial-scale corruption which allowed billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to flow into Afghanistan without supervision and for weaponry and aid to be misused, stolen or illegally sold off by Afghans, U.S. personnel and Pentagon contractors alike.

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