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Afghanistan News Update

Black Alliance for Peace, Published on Black Agenda Report,  February 1, 2023 Propaganda continues to justify the U.S./EU-backed economic war on Afghanistan, which the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has argued constitutes a crime against humanity . That is why the BAP Solidarity Network’s Afghanistan Committee has steadfastly shone a light on the invasion and 20-year war, its devastating consequences,[…]

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The Longest War in U.S. History Has Left a Failed State in Afghanistan

by Lisa Sorush published on CovertAction Magazine, December 29, 2023 We cannot forget Afghanistan.  It is crystal clear evidence of the U.S. impunity heartlessness in destroying a Afghanistan is in the midst of a severe crisis as a result of the 20-year U.S.-NATO war which culminated in a return to the status quo—that is the return of the Taliban to[…]

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From Reproductive Rights to the Hijab, Our Bodies, Our Choice

by Alison Bodine and Janine Solanki, published in Fire This Time, Vol 16, Issue 10-11, November 2022 The Rise and Fall of Roe v. Wade On January 22, 1973, in the midst of the women’s liberation movement, the U.S. Supreme Court made the historic ruling in the case of Roe v. Wade to grant women the constitutional right to have[…]

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Stop Using Human Tragedies to Instigate “Velvet Revolution” in Iran!

Statement from U.S. Peace Council, October 2, 2022 I visited Iran several times a decade ago.  Women have it pretty good in Iran.  They have about the same ratio of women to men in college as the US (just like us, women do a little better in college and men do a little better in the economy).  Women are free[…]

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The Long Hand of Slave Breeding, Redux

by JoAnn Wypijewski, published on Counterpunch, June 6, 2022 A stunning discussion of women’s rights and the freeing of slaves as these topics relate to today’s anti-abortion campaign.   #MeToo is a disturbing phenomenon which at times frees women to speak the unspeakable openly, but leaves the power of whose voice is heard and what will be done about it, who[…]

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A Case for Unfreezing Afghanistan’s Assets

by Kate Alexander, published on Inkstick Media, April 30, 2022 It seems unlikely that the US government is going to amend it’s policies on behalf of Afghan women or Afghan people.   If the awareness that Afghan children are starving has not moved them then concerns about a woman’s ability manage her assets to free herself from oppression seems unlikely to[…]

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The State of Abortion Struggle in 2022

by Ann Montague, published on Socialist Action, February 1, 2022 Odd: They want more workers but they don’t have jobs for them.   fIt seems barbaric that a country wishing to grow it’s population chooses to force women to have babies they can’t care for while building walls to keep out migrants; driving down the availability of good paying jobs; and[…]

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