Afghanistan

Afghanistan Facing Famine

15 November 2021 - by Human Rights Watch

Donor countries, the United Nations, and international financial institutions should urgently address Afghanistan’s collapsed economy and broken banking system to prevent widespread famine, Human Rights Watch said today. The UN World Food (...)
The US Lost in Afghanistan. But US Imperialism Isn’t Going Anywhere

7 September 2021 - by Gilbert Achcar

The United States suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, just as it did in Vietnam. But we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy after calamitous failures for a turn away from US imperialist ambitions. The debacle of the (...)
The relative decline of US imperialism

22 August 2021 - by Michael Roberts

The swift collapse of Afghanistan puppet government when US troops withdrew from the war with the Taliban and left the country after 20 years has been likened to the fall of Saigon at the end of the 30-year ‘American’ war against the Vietnamese (...)
SAAPE stands in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan

18 August 2021 - by SAAPE

SAAPE extends its solidarity to women, men and children of Afghanistan who are once again at the toxic crossroads of war and violence, political instability and an uncertain future. The return of the Taliban in the Afghanistan government is a (...)
The US occupation took only human lives: Taliban victory is not a sign of peace

15 August 2021 - by Farooq Tariq

It is now evident that the US imperialism has lost all its human and financial investment in Afghanistan. The Taliban have almost occupied Afghanistan without a fight. What has been spent in Afghanistan in the name of development, ‘democracy’ (...)
United States withdraws from Afghanistan? Not really

17 May 2021 - by Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad

The US invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 was criminal. It was criminal because of the immense force used to demolish Afghanistan’s physical infrastructure and to break open its social bonds. On October 11, 2001, journalist Anatol Lieven (...)
Why should Pakistan trust us?

28 July 2010 - by Nick Dearden

The Afghan ‘war leaks’ have revealed in stark detail the mistrust and tension that lies at the heart of the West’s relationship with Afghanistan and Pakistan. But this mistrust is not merely the product of a nine-year war, but of decades of (...)