Tag: Taliban
Taliban bans women from higher education in Afghanistan
This ban "takes Afghanistan back to the Taliban's first period of rule when girls could not receive formal education."
How feminists can support Afghan women living under the Taliban
Afghanistan’s underlying economic and humanitarian problems, which disproportionately affect women and girls, cannot simply be ignored because of the Taliban’s record.”
Why the Taliban’s promise to stop the opium trade rings hollow
Uncertainty abounds over what the Taliban’s opium policy will actually look like. In the meantime, the farmers are planting the seeds for next year’s crop right now.
After 20 years of lies and war, US retreat underway as...
"It's like the United States lost another war after destabilizing a country that will likely be a failed state for decades, something which has happened multiple times in the 'War on Terrorism.'"
Afghan troops say Taliban are brothers and war is ‘not really...
Afghan troops whose lives hang in the balance in the latest peace talks.
Trump-Taliban talks like those with N. Korea – a photo op...
Trump-Taliban is just for show, like Trump-North Korea. It is like a photo op on the deck of the Titanic as it headed to sea.
Priciest US weapon, the F-35, just attacked one of world’s most...
Why did the US military have a vertical-take-off F-35B launched from an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean make an attack on a Taliban position in Afghanistan?
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Mark Carney pledges $1B in taxpayer money for a ‘carbon bomb’ project
It’s a massive subsidy to Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project.
The US war on Cuba’s doctors
“Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got a botched surgery. The work they’ve done for rural and poor Jamaicans is immeasurable.”
Supreme Court opens door to conversion therapy in free speech ruling
In an 8-1 decision, the Court struck down Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for minors, prioritizing a therapist’s First Amendment claim over state efforts to restrict a practice rejected by major medical organizations.
Trump’s ‘God Squad’ grants fossil fuel exemption affecting endangered species protections in the Gulf
A rarely convened federal panel voted unanimously to allow oil and gas operations to bypass key wildlife safeguards, drawing legal challenges and warnings about the use of national security claims to weaken environmental law.
Why capitalism relies on nature and care work it does not pay for
Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems.