- www.nytimes.com Taliban Rewind the Clock: ‘A Woman Is a Helpless and Powerless Creature’
Nearly a year since the Taliban seized power, new restrictions have reshaped the social fabric. Schools and jobs are again off-limits for women, music has been banned, and beards are mandatory for men — just like in the 1990s.
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Afghanistan: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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- apnews.com AP PHOTOS: Despair and poverty fuel drug use in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Hundreds of men, strung out on heroin, opium and meth, were strewn over the hillside overlooking Kabul, some in tents, some lying in the dirt.
- www.workers.org Let Afghanistan live!
Contrary to the narrative of U.S. politicians and journalists, the August 2021 withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan did not mark the end of the United States’ so-called “forever war” but rather a shift in U.S. policy — from direct military intervention and occupation to one based on e
>In other words, U.S. policy of intentionally starving the Afghan people through economic sanctions on Afghanistan is going as planned. As many predicted, blocking funds from the Taliban and curtailing foreign aid and assistance would lead to a rapid financial meltdown and exacerbate the ongoing famine plaguing Afghanistan.
How long before capitalist apologists blame this all on ‘socialism’ and find every excuse in the book to exonerate the sanctioners?
- apnews.com Taliban official: Strict punishment, executions will return
One of the founders of the Taliban says the hard-line movement will once again carry out punishments like executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.
- www.presstv.ir Are Afghan women allowed to work under the Taliban?
Press TV takes you to a hospital in the Afghan city of Herat.
- www.presstv.ir China tells US to stop imposing its norms on world after Afghanistan debacle
Beijing tells Washington to ponder on the recent advice of Russian President Vladimir Putin to quit imposing American norms on other nations after the Afghanistan fiasco.
- www.aljazeera.com ‘Horror scene’: Anger as US drone attack kills Afghan children
Ten people from a Kabul neighbourhood killed in US drone attack – Washington claims ISKP fighters were the target.
- crimethinc.com Afghanistan: The Taliban Victory in a Global Context
A veteran of the US occupation of Afghanistan discusses this defeat for US imperialism—framing the Taliban in the context of a global wave of fascism.
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‘Killing for the sake of killing’: Disillusioned US drone pilots leak footage of air strikes against unarmed Afghans
www.rt.com ‘Killing for the sake of killing’: Disillusioned US drone pilots leak footage of air strikes against unarmed Afghans, media saysAmerican drone pilots have leaked video of “punitive” and “nihilistic” strikes in Afghanistan in 2019 that led to the killing of civilians, including at least one child, as the US looked for an exit strategy in the two-decade war.
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Anti-Taliban Protest in Kabul
"In past when Taliban took-over the control of Kabul, young ppl supported them & welcomed them but this time things are change. The youth of Afghanistan is on roads & they are removing the Islamist Taliban flags. Taliban are facing a huge protests around the city." https://twitter.com/WorkersSolidar1/status/1427951914789052421