Posts tagged “afghanistan”
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Camelia Entekhabifard in the New York Times
September 30, 2011
“As a moderate who was a leader of the mujahedeen, Mr. Rabbani served as a link between different factions of power in Afghan society. Through active diplomacy, he persuaded his fellow mujahedeen to stand by Mr. Karzai in spite of their differences. Now, with respected figures blaming the president (and what they see as his naïve support for dialogue) for Mr. Rabbani’s death, it will be virtually impossible for him to regain their trust and restart peace talks with the Taliban.”
Tags: afghanistan, camelia, camelia entekhabifard, rabbani, save yourself by telling the truth--a memoir of iran, the new york times
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Meet a Visiting Cartoonist: A Chat with Ted Rall
September 29, 2010
Ted Rall shares his experience in Afghanistan and discusses the purpose of his book in this brief interview with Mike Rhode from WashingtonCityPaper.com. He talks politics, targets the most severe problems for the American worker and the average citizen, and blames backwards American Capitalism for deliberately making America poorer. What can and should Americans do, according to Rall? Overthrow the government and start anew. As he says in the article, “We can overthrow the system that is abusing us and replace it with something better.”
Tags: afghanistan, busboys and poets, democracy, editorial cartoons, Future of the Left, kickstarter, left wing, revolution, right wing, tea party, ted rall
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Ted Rall: WikiLeaks will end the Afghan War
August 4, 2010
“An appalling irresponsible act.” That’s how General James Nattis, fresh at the helm of U.S. Central Command, characterizes the release of more than 76,000 classified Pentagon reports released by the website WikiLeaks.
You may recall that the Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense, is the same outfit that loaded $24 billion in $100 bills onto shrinkwrapped pallets and loaded the cash onto C-130 transport planes bound for Iraq — guarded by enlisted men who earn $20,000 a year. Not one of those Benjamins has ever heard from since. Which, given that the money was supposed to be paid to corrupt tribal sheikhs, is just as well. Don’t be surprised if you see contractors installing one of those great a new Gunnite pool at the house belonging to your recently discharged veteran neighbor.
So anyway, when a Pentagon biggie calls someone irresponsible, take them seriously. These guys know from irresponsibility. — Ted Rall, reblogged from Commondreams.org
Tags: afghanistan, anti-american manifesto, articles, current events, ted rall, wikileaks
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David Swanson: What does $33 Billion look like?
May 12, 2010
According to the Congressional Budget Office, Congress has already approved $345 billion for war in Afghanistan, not to mention $708 billion in Iraq. According to the National Priorities Project, for that same money we could have renewable energy in 1,083,271,391 homes for a year (or every home in the country for more than 10 years), or pay 17,188,969 elementary school teachers for a year. There may be 2.6 million elementary and middle school teachers in our country now. Assuming we could use 3 million teachers, we could hire them all for five years and employ that extra $13 billion or so to give them bonuses. “Honor our brave teachers” anyone? — from TomDispatch.com
Tags: afghanistan, articles, david swanson, daybreak, obama, politics/government, tom engelhardt, tomdispatch
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Kickstarter activism: Send Ted Rall back to Afghanistan!
March 23, 2010
In 2001, Ted Rall, financed by the Village Voice, traveled to Afghanistan to cover the newborn United States invasion. Now, Rall intends to return to Afghanistan to tell the story of what has become of the region between 2001 and today, after eight and a half years of war. But this time, no newspaper or magazine is willing to cover the cost of his traveling directly into a war zone — so Rall has asked his readers, through Kickstarter, to make the project possible.
Tags: afghanistan, anti-american manifesto, articles, kickstarter, ted rall
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Loretta Napoleoni: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?
November 11, 2009
From Loretta Napoleoni (author of Rogue Economics and the upcoming Terrorism and the Economy) at the Huffington Post:
On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the US is losing the war in Afghanistan, a country that indirectly contributed to the break-up of the USSR. Where coalition forces today battle the Taliban and al Qaeda, in the 1980s, the Soviets fought the Mujahedeen — a Muslim army of volunteers that Moscow called terrorists. Fighting the anti-Soviet Jihad, a brutal war funded by the CIA and the Saudis, became too costly for bankrupt Moscow. In a painful and humiliating withdrawal, the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan in February 1989, just a few months before the implosion of the Soviet System. Without that defeat we might not be celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War or a unified Europe today. Remarkably, the central Asian country of Afghanistan seems once again to be shaping our future.
Tags: afghanistan, articles, current events, economics, huffington post, loretta napoleoni, rogue economics, terrorism and the economy
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David Swanson at National Assembly to End the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars & Occupations
July 11, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 1:30pm - 3:30pm, National Assembly to End the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars and Occupations, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA. Topic: Torture, Renditions, Detentions, Guantanamo and Wrongful Prosecutions: Holding Those Who Give the Orders Accountable. With Lynne Stewart,…
Tags: afghanistan, david swanson, daybreak, discussions, iraq, janet mcmahon, jules lobel, lynne stewart, national assembly, pennsylvania, pittsburgh
“afghanistan” Posts
- Sep 30, Camelia Entekhabifard in the New York Times
- Sep 29, Meet a Visiting Cartoonist: A Chat with Ted Rall
- Aug 4, Ted Rall: WikiLeaks will end the Afghan War
- May 12, David Swanson: What does $33 Billion look like?
- Mar 23, Kickstarter activism: Send Ted Rall back to Afghanistan!
- Nov 11, Loretta Napoleoni: Will Another Superpower Meet Its End in Afghanistan?
- Jul 11, David Swanson at National Assembly to End the Iraq & Afghanistan Wars & Occupations
