TheAltWorld Starving Afghans Forced to Sell Organs as U.S. Freezes $9 Billion Reserves w/ former Col. Ann Wright
- Rania Khalek
- Friday 19 Aug 22
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A year after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country is facing horrendous conditions and $9 billion of their reserves are still frozen by Western banks.
Peace activist, retired U.S. Army colonel and State Dept. official Ann Wright addresses the situation. She was part of the team that opened the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan in the early 2000s and resigned in protest of the Iraq invasion.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.
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