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.

The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America’s Involvement in Afghanistan
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The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America’s Involvement in Afghanistan

ByChris Floyd

A 40-year chapter of American involvement has come to an end. But we need to understand how we got here, or else we will simply be waiting for the next monstrous, long-running atrocity to arise, with the same rationalizations of Liberty and Freedom that our leaders have used to cover up their deliberate policies of mass murder, war profiteering and corruption.

WalmartLand: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico are Displacing Local Culture
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WalmartLand: How US Stores Colonizing Mexico are Displacing Local Culture

ByTamara Pearson

Foreign corporations have a lot of freedom in Mexico, and they are backed by trade agreements like NAFTA and USMCA that were created within very unequal power dynamics. As an activist put it succinctly, “This is nothing less than a cultural conquest.”

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.”

US Suffocates Cuba for Unwavering, Victorious Anti-Imperialism at Great Cost
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US Suffocates Cuba for Unwavering, Victorious Anti-Imperialism at Great Cost

ByAaron Maté interviews Piero Gleijeses

Cuba’s anti-imperial foreign policy helped end apartheid in South Africa and sustain liberation movements worldwide. Historian Piero Gleijeses says that’s one of the main reasons why the US has terrorized the island nation through today.

Colombians Resume Protests Against Duque’s Far-Right Government
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Colombians Resume Protests Against Duque’s Far-Right Government

ByCourtesy: People’s Dispatch

On August 26, as a part of a new national strike, thousands of Colombians took to the streets across the country in rejection of a new tax reform bill promoted by the national government and in support of the ten bills presented by different sectors last month.