{"id":303782,"date":"2017-04-14T23:37:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-14T22:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-weapon-on-afghanistan-a-crime-against-humanity\/"},"modified":"2017-04-14T23:37:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-14T22:37:32","slug":"us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-weapon-on-afghanistan-a-crime-against-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-drops-largest-non-nuclear-weapon-on-afghanistan-a-crime-against-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"US drops largest non-nuclear weapon on Afghanistan: A crime against humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>US drops largest non-nuclear weapon on Afghanistan: A crime against humanity<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    14 April 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The US military\u2019s dropping of the largest non-nuclear weapon in its arsenal on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border Thursday is a crime against humanity. Even as the US government and the mass media were engaged in a lying propaganda campaign denouncing Syria and Russia for the use of poison gas, the American military was positioning the monstrous weapon\u2014the Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB)\u2014for use in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>While the Pentagon has released few details about the impact of the bombing, one can be certain that the total number of deaths resulting from the dropping of the MOAB is a massive multiple of the number killed in the alleged Syrian gas attack, assuming\u2014and this is by no means certain\u2014that the gas attack even took place.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy-two years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, American imperialism has proven once again that it is the most ruthless and criminal force on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>The use of the MOAB has implications that extend beyond Afghanistan. It demonstrates\u2014and this is, in fact, the principal aim of the attack\u2014that there are no restraints on what the US military is prepared to do in pursuit of the interests of American imperialism.<\/p>\n<p>In the context of mounting military tensions from the Korean peninsula to Syria to eastern Europe, the detonation of the massive bomb over Afghanistan represents a warning to Russia, Iran, North Korea and any country that dares to challenge Washington\u2019s interests that there is no limit to the level of violence that US imperialism will unleash against them.<\/p>\n<p>The weapon, officially known as the GBU-43\/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, designated by the Pentagon as MOAB, or \u201cmother of all bombs,\u201d detonates nearly 20,000&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/04\/14\/pers-a14.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 US drops largest non-nuclear weapon on Afghanistan: A crime against humanity 14 April 2017 The US military\u2019s dropping of the largest non-nuclear weapon in its arsenal on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border Thursday is a crime against humanity. Even as the US government and the mass media were engaged in a lying propaganda campaign denouncing Syria [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-303782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}