Afghanistan Famine

The Guardian
View In: Afghanistan FaminePeople are fleeing in search of food, freedom and safety resulting from the economic and humanitarian catastrophe caused by 20 years of US occupation In my home country of Afghanistan, winter is harsh and children are hungry. Almost every parent faces the torture of not having enough food to feed thei...

Alternet.org
View In: Afghanistan FamineJust five months after President Biden’s high profile troop withdrawal from Afghanistan the country is in crisis. According to the United Nations World Food Program, 23 million Afghans are living in conditions of “severe food insecurity,” and conditions are expected to get worse throughout the winter...

Democracy Now!
View In: Afghanistan FamineThe World Food Program has warned Afghanistan faces a “tsunami of hunger” as the economy continues to collapse, due in part to U.S. sanctions and the freezing of Afghan assets following the Taliban takeover of Kabul. Meanwhile, President Biden once again defended his decision to withdraw U.S. troop...

Common Dreams - Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
View In: Afghanistan FamineSen. Bernie Sanders urged the Biden administration “to immediately release billions in frozen Afghan government funds to help avert this crisis, and prevent the death of millions of people.”

Popular Resistance
View In: Afghanistan FamineContrary 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 economi...

Democracy Now!
View In: Afghanistan FamineAs Afghanistan faces a dire humanitarian crisis, we look at how more Afghans may die from U.S. sanctions than at the hands of the Taliban. The U.S.'s attempts to block support for the new de facto government have prevented vital funding from flowing to the nation's civil servants, particularly in educatio...