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• US To Release Stolen Afghan Reserves, With A Catch
  19 September, by siawi3

  The US government announced on 13 September that it would release a significant portion of the $7 billion stolen Afghan central bank funds to a bank of international settlements in Basel, Switzerland. The trusteeship will help the US to oversee the disbursements of the funds in order to bypass the Taliban government in Kabul.

• Gen. Soleimani Killing: Lessons for African Leaders
  15 January 2020, by siawi3

  Don’t forget that America and Osama Bin Laden used to be friends in the 1980s when the still unknown Saudi cleric was doing them a favor by fighting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. America has historically hit hard erstwhile allies who have become ‘stubborn.’ Assassinations, funding of protests, disruptions of governments, etc.

• France : Amine Elbahi : « Voir GĂ©rald Darmanin soutenir le maire de Roubaix laisse circonspect »
  9 février, par siawi3

  L’implication du gouvernement contre l’islamisme et le clientĂ©lisme souffrirait-elle de faiblesses ? La ville de Roubaix aurait financĂ© jusqu’Ă  l’Ă©tĂ© 2021 l’association AAIR accusĂ©e de prosĂ©lytisme religieux, sous couvert de cours de soutien scolaire, et qui a fermĂ© ses portes depuis. Voir le ministre de l’IntĂ©rieur soutenir un maire qui est poursuivi pour « dĂ©tournement de fonds publics par nĂ©gligence », ça me laisse circonspect. « Je m’Ă©tonne aussi aujourd’hui de notre capacitĂ© Ă  nous Ă©mouvoir collectivement sur une situation que nous connaissons depuis bien longtemps »

• State Dept-funded Transparency International goes silent on jailed transparency activist Julian Assange
  27 July 2020, by siawi3

  “There is a principle and a precedent at stake … no matter how you feel about Julian Assange”

• Afghanistan: Taliban - not the government - start collecting taxes
  28 July 2021, by siawi3

  Pakistan reopened its border with Afghanistan after consulting Taliban officials who are now running the day-to-day affairs of areas under their control.

• By Letting Saudi Arabia Off the Hook Over 9/11, the US Encouraged Violent Jihadism
  15 September 2021, by siawi3

  Two decades after 9/11, the role of Saudi Arabia in the attack remains in dispute despite unrelenting efforts by the US and Saudi governments to neutralise it as a live political issue.

• Pakistan: Prison sentence for terror financing
  15 February 2020, by siawi3

  The verdict on the terror financing cases involving Jamaatud Dawa supremo Hafiz Saeed on Wednesday is a major development as this country tries to dismantle the active militant infrastructure. The fact is that this country’s jihadi infrastructure — built under Gen Ziaul Haq’s watch with American ‘guidance’ and Saudi money — should have been dismantled a long time ago.

• USA: Rep. Betty McCollum Leads Effort to Block Israel From Using U.S. Aid to Destroy Palestinian Homes
  1 May 2021, by siawi3

  “I don’t want $1 of U.S. aid to Israel paying for the military detention and abuse of Palestinian children, the demolition of Palestinian homes, or the annexation of Palestinian land.”

• USA : Après le 11-Septembre, des guerres sans fin et des puits sans fond
  16 septembre 2021, par siawi3

  Depuis 2011, le projet « Coûts de la guerre » mené par un groupe d’universitaires américains tente d’établir le vrai bilan de « la guerre contre le terrorisme », de l’Afghanistan à la Libye, en passant par l’Irak

• USA: Tennessee’s new pro-religious-education law uses tax-payers money to cover costs of religious education
  26 June 2020, by siawi3

  How can this possibly be constitutional in a secular republic? Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Monday signed into law a very dubious piece of legislation that not only now allows public schools to release students from academic classes every day to attend religion courses off campus — but also authorizes school boards to use tax money to cover the cost of transporting those students to these so-named “released time” courses.

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