Pentagon Paid the Arms Industry at least $4.4 Trillion Since 9/11
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Pentagon Paid the Arms Industry at least $4.4 Trillion Since 9/11

ByDave DeCamp

Brown University’s Costs of War Project released a new report Monday detailing post-9/11 spending by the Pentagon. The study found that of the over $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since the start of the war in Afghanistan, one-third to one-half went to private military contractors.

Average People Still Have the Power to Stop Wars
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Average People Still Have the Power to Stop Wars

ByJ.C. Pan and Ariella Thornhill interview Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky talks about why the US withdrawal from Afghanistan won’t change US imperialism, the many war crimes of George W. Bush, and why he still believes in average people’s ability to push back against the war machine.

The US-Led “War on Terror” Has Devastated Much of the World
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The US-Led “War on Terror” Has Devastated Much of the World

ByC.J. Polychroniou interviews Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky pointedly elaborates in a breathtaking interview that the outcome of the 20-year war on terror, which ended with the Taliban’s return to power, has been disastrous on multiple fronts, and also reveals the massive level of hypocrisy that belies the actions of the global empire.

Over Two Decades, US’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion
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Over Two Decades, US’s Global War on Terror Has Taken Nearly 1 Million Lives and Cost $8 Trillion

ByMurtaza Hussain; and Jake Johnson

A new report from the Costs of War Project makes staggering estimates for the human and financial costs of the global forever wars. Also: Since 9/11, US Has Spent $21 Trillion on Militarism at Home and Abroad.

Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women
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Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women

ByFawzia Afzal-Khan

Malala’s “voice” has been turned into its opposite in the capitalist neocolonial economic model that extracts what is of use to it and puts it to a different purpose to serve its own agendas. She is now serving at the behest of her “handlers”—the white feminists who are poised to “save brown women from brown men.”