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Medea Benjamin

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Asia-Pacific

Biden's $7 billion Afghan heist

The president's order diverting frozen funds to American families of 9/11 victims will only make the humanitarian and economic crises in Afghanistan worse.

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Asia-Pacific

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.

Meet the Senate nuke caucus, busting the budget and making the world less safe
Global Crises

Meet the Senate nuke caucus, busting the budget and making the world less safe

These lawmakers represent states with a direct interest in pouring billions into modernizing and building new weapons.

Why is Biden selling weapons to a country that helped make Yemen a 'hell hole'?
Middle East

Why is Biden selling weapons to a country that helped make Yemen a 'hell hole'?

The president seems fine with keeping the Middle East awash in US arms, one of many strikes against this $23B UAE deal.