On August 1, President Biden announced that Ayman al-Zawahiri, a longtime leader of al-Qaeda, had been killed by a United States Central Intelligence Agency drone strike. Biden predictably used the word “justice” to describe the event and combined it with the typical...
Joe Biden recently announced that the United States government is stealing $3.5 billion from the Afghan people. But that’s not exactly how he said it. Before the U.S. military pulled out of Afghanistan, the Afghan Central Bank had $7 billion in reserves held in the...
After the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, women are not simply sitting back and watching as their rights get swept away from them. No, they are fighting back. When the Taliban previously held power in the country from 1996 to 2001, women and girls were denied the...
On Saturday August 28, 2,000 people gathered in the U.N. Plaza in San Francisco to stand in solidarity with the people of Afghanistan. Many of the protestors were from the Afghan diaspora, including students from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and Sacramento State University....
Leer en Español On August 15th, Taliban forces took power in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan and much of the city erupted in chaos. Tens of thousands of people tried to flee the country and thousands tried to get to the airport. The media was filled with horrific...
