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• USA: Schools Districts to Divert Public School Dollars to Private Religious Schools}
  26 June 2020, by siawi3

  Today, Secretary Betsy DeVos�s announced that the Department of Education will force local school districts to redirect a portion of federal funding intended to help deal with the Covid-19 pandemic from public schools to private, religious schools.

• One Year of Afghanistan War Spending Could Fund Resettlement of 1.2 Million Refugees
  18 August 2021, by siawi3

  “We’ve spent billions on war. Now, let’s spend to bring Afghans to safety.”

• The Winner in Afghanistan: China
  16 September 2021, by siawi3

  With a trillion dollars invested in Eurasia and another trillion in Africa, China is engaged in nothing less than history’s largest infrastructure project.

• Pentagon Paid the Arms Industry at Least $4.4 Trillion Since 9/11
  16 September 2021, by siawi3

  The top five profiteers were Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman; they received $2.2 trillion, almost half of the $14 trillion spent by the Pentagon since the start of the war in Afghanistan; one-third to one-half went to private military contractors.

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  14 août 2020, par siawi3
• ‘Just give us our money’: Taliban push to unlock Afghan billions abroad
  30 October 2021, by siawi3

  Drought-stricken nation faces cash crunch, mass starvation and new migration crisis. Mehrabi hopes that while the United States has recently said it will not release its lion’s share of roughly $9 billion of funds, European countries might. He said Germany held half a billion dollars of Afghan money and that it and other European countries should release those funds. Mehrabi said that Afghanistan needed $150 million each month to “prevent imminent crisis”, keeping the local currency and prices stable, adding that any transfer could be monitored by an auditor.

• Trump�s allies may still rule Europe � Poland shows what�s at stake
  8 November 2020, by siawi3

  Women�s rights in Poland have come into the crosshairs of the powerful US Christian conservative �legal army�, the American Center for Law and Justice. And it�s led by Trump�s personal lawyer . Poland shows what is at stake for all of Europe, and beyond. Whoever is in the White House next year, the �dark money� movements that supported Trump�s rise to power, and have celebrated his presidency, will still threaten women�s and LGBTIQ rights globally.

• Pentagon Contractors in Afghanistan Pocketed $108 Billion Over 20 Years
  18 August, by siawi3

  “These contracts show the shadowy ’camo economy’ at work in Afghanistan.” “Military contracting obscures where and how taxpayer money flows, who profits, and how much is lost to waste, fraud, and abuse,”

• Atheists Urge N. Ireland to Revoke Charity Label from �Conversion Therapy� Group
  15 May 2020, by siawi3

  Given that this practice [conversion therapy] can cause individuals significant mental health issues and harms society by reinforcing stigmas against LGBT+ people, we believe a clear tension exists between the public benefit requirement and the promotion of �conversion therapy�. National Secular Society.

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  18 février 2020, par siawi3

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