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Kolhatkar: The Afghan War is Brutal, Expensive, Unpopular, and Ineffective – So Why Are We Spending Billions on It?
Znet Article, March, 06 2011
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
While millions of Americans are experiencing unemployment, wage stagnation, rising tuition, dwindling social services, and poverty at levels not seen since the Great Depression, an unjustifiably large proportion of our taxes are being used to caus...
Joya: Time Magazine's Sneaky Way of Muffling the Message of an Afghan Peace Activist
Znet Article, May, 04 2010
Malalai Joya
Joya's ZSpace page
Malalai Joya gets named one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2010, but allows Ayaan Hirsi to make the announcement and distort Joya's message.
Kolhatkar: A Call for Clarity on the Afghanistan War
Znet Article, November, 03 2009
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
While President Barack Obama reviews his strategy on Afghanistan, a perfect moment to send a strong unified message to end the war is slipping through our fingers. Whether it's because we seem to have bought into the lies about the goals of this w...
Kolhatkar: Why Is a Leading Feminist Organization Lending Its Name to Support Escalation in Afghanistan?
Znet Article, July, 10 2009
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
Years ago, following the initial military success of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the temporary fall of the Taliban, the people of Afghanistan were promised that the occupying armies would rebuild the country and improve life for the Afgha...
Kolhatkar: America's Viceroy
Znet Article, May, 20 2009
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
In light of the renewed attention on Afghanistan and the recent New York Times article, Ex-U.S. Envoy May Take Key Role in Afghan Government (May 19, 2009) about Zalmay Khalilzad and his proposed future role as "Afghanistan's CEO," we present an e...
Kolhatkar: Afghans to Obama
Znet Article, November, 29 2008
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
Eman, an Afghan woman's rights activist with RAWA tells Uprising host, Sonali Kolhatkar, that Obama must end the occupation.
Kolhatkar: Progressives Are Making a Mistake Lining Up Behind Obama
Znet Article, May, 17 2008
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
Today Matt Gonzalez is running on an independent ticket alongside Ralph Nader for the Vice Presidency of the US. Sonali Kolhatkar, host of Uprising, interviewed Gonzalez on May 9th in advance of a West Coast City tour with Nader.
Monbiot: Stop taking it out of the ground
Znet Article, December, 16 2007
George Monbiot
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About ten thousand delegates from more than 180 nations are meeting in Bali to attempt to extend the Kyoto Protocol Global Warming Pact beyond 2012. Opposition from the United States, Canada, and Japan is likely to stand in the way of any attempts...
Kolhatkar: Enforcing insecurity in Afghanistan
Znet Article, November, 01 2006
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
The following is an excerpt from “Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence†(Seven Stories, 2006) by Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls. Once touted as a success in the “War on Terror,âS...
Kolhatkar: RAWA: a Model for Activism and Social Transformation
Znet Article, June, 01 2006
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
The Revolut...
Kolhatkar: Selective Outrage
Znet Article, April, 05 2006
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
Daily media reports over the case of Afghan Christian convert Abdul Rahman have revealed a sudden concern over Afghanistan's repressive human rights environment. But routine human rights reports of the ongoing oppression of Afghan women, suppressi...
Kolhatkar: Giving Democracy a Bad Name
Znet Article, September, 16 2005
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
The United States has supposedly created new "democracies" in Afghanistan and Iraq, but these endeavors give democracy a bad name. Sure, the two countries have some ingredients of representative democracy (elected officials, a constitution). But b...
Kolhatkar: Forgetting Afghanistan - Again.
Znet Article, March, 28 2005
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
In the past two years the US media have drastically reduced their coverage of Afghanistan. According to the American Journalism Review only three news organizations--Newsweek, Associated Press and the Washington Post--have full-time reporters stat...
Kolhatkar: Superstars and Globalization
Znet Article, August, 31 2004
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
“[W]hen you live in the United States, with the roar of the free market, the roar of this huge military power, the roar of being at the heart of empire, it's hard to hear the whispering of the rest of the world. And I think many U.S. citiz...
Kolhatkar: Shattering Illusions
Znet Article, July, 31 2004
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
In the first minute of his July 29 Democratic National Convention (DNC) acceptance speech, John Kerry told us that the Democratic Party has “one simple purpose: to make Am...
Kolhatkar: Jihad Comes Full Circle
Znet Article, March, 24 2004
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
In January 2004, the Chicago Tribune cited military sources in Washington planning a "spring offensive" on the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan "that would reach inside Pakistan with the goal of destroying Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda ...
Kolhatkar: Afghan Women Continue to Fend For Themselves
Znet Article, March, 09 2004
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
Afghan Women Continue to Fend For Themselves
Kolhatkar: World Social Forum 2004
Znet Article, February, 06 2004
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
The fourth annual World Social Forum was, for the first time, held in a different location from Porto Alegre, Brazil, its usual home. But it wasn’t just the location that was different -- the city of Mumbai, this year’s location, w...
Kolhatkar: Replacing one terrorist state with another
Znet Article, October, 06 2003
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
“If you harbor a terrorist, if you support a terrorist, if you feed a terrorist, you're just as guilty as the terrorists. And the Taliban found out what we meant,†U.S. President George W. Bush told military personnel in Fort Stewa...
Kolhatkar: From Afghanistan To Iraq
Znet Article, February, 10 2003
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
On August 29th 2002 in Little Rock, Arkansas, George W Bush said: "We liberated Afghanistan from the clutches of a barbaric regime... We're liberators, not conquerers here in America"(1). Addressing U.S. troops this January in Fort Hood, Texas, ...
Kolhatkar: Outwardly Progressive, Internally Corporate: Pacifica's Next Challenge
Znet Article, September, 29 2002
Sonali Kolhatkar
Kolhatkar's ZSpace page
In an article on Pacifica titled "Gloves Off", Michael Albert wrote: "progressive organizations should employ partic...
