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.
Medea Benjamin is cofounder of CODEPINK for Peace, and author of several books, including Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Follow her on Twitter @medeabenjamin
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.
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.
These lawmakers represent states with a direct interest in pouring billions into modernizing and building new weapons.
The president seems fine with keeping the Middle East awash in US arms, one of many strikes against this $23B UAE deal.