{"id":295867,"date":"2021-09-02T08:53:31","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T08:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=212976"},"modified":"2021-09-02T08:53:31","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T08:53:31","slug":"afghan-crisis-must-end-americas-empire-of-war-corruption-and-poverty-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/09\/02\/afghan-crisis-must-end-americas-empire-of-war-corruption-and-poverty-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Crisis Must End America\u2019s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban\u2019s return to power in their country &#8211; and then by an Islamic State suicide bombing and ensuing massacre by U.S. forces that together killed at least 170 people, including 13 U.S. troops. Even as UN agencies warn of  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/02\/afghan-crisis-must-end-americas-empire-of-war-corruption-and-poverty\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/02\/afghan-crisis-must-end-americas-empire-of-war-corruption-and-poverty\/\">Afghan Crisis Must End America\u2019s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/09\/02\/afghan-crisis-must-end-americas-empire-of-war-corruption-and-poverty\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban\u2019s return to power in their country &#8211; and then by an Islamic State suicide bombing and ensuing massacre by U.S. forces that together killed at le&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296024,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295867\/revisions\/296024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}