Starving the Taliban — or the Afghan people?
We want women to go to school and persecutions of the innocent to stop. But we don’t want regular people to freeze and starve, either.
Ariel Gold is the national co-director and a senior Middle East policy analyst with CODEPINK, a women-led grassroots organization that supports peace and human rights initiatives and works to end US wars and militarism. Her work focuses on Palestinian rights, diplomacy with Iran, holding Saudi Arabia accountable for human rights abuses and the war in Yemen, and restricting U.S. weapons sales to end engagement in the Middle East. She has been published in Ms. Magazine, the Forward, Tikkun, Jacobin, and other outlets. She lives in Ithaca, NY. Follow her on Twitter @ArielElyseGold
We want women to go to school and persecutions of the innocent to stop. But we don’t want regular people to freeze and starve, either.
The president seems fine with keeping the Middle East awash in US arms, one of many strikes against this $23B UAE deal.