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Matthew Hoh and Ann Jones: Real Peace for Afghanistan
October 22, 2010
"Women's rights are nothing but human rights when women exercise them," notes Ann Jones, but Afghanistan has never been big on women's rights. Still, as highly-touted negotiations continue between Taliban representatives and the Karzai government, where are the women? Can real peace come when it's negotiated without women when, Matthew Hoh notes, the population of the country between the ages of 20 and 45 is four to one women to men?
Ethan McCord, Ann Jones and Matthew Hoh, and Silly Elections
October 21, 2010
"The one thing I couldn't live without in Iraq was my own humanity," says Iraq veteran Ethan McCord, who came home from dropping his children off at school to find a video of himself rescuing an child from a bombed-out van. That was the now-infamous Wikileaks video, and McCord has been collecting his own video and stories from his fellow veterans, speaking out about what he saw at war and what his friends lived through.
Ann Jones: The Wounds of War
September 30, 2010
"We talk about this fault break between war and peace, and it doesn't work that way for women," notes Ann Jones, longtime journalist, author and humanitarian. Women, she points out, are often victims of sexual violence long after the official peace agreements are signed, and they often become the victims of abuse when soldiers come home traumatized and unable to deal with what they've seen and done.
Kimberle Crenshaw, Ann Jones, and the Cycle of War
September 29, 2010
We hear a lot about "post-racial" politics these days--the election of Barack Obama supposedly has led us into a post-racial age, but have we really seen anything change? Not much, notes Kimberle Crenshaw, co-founder of the African-American Policy Forum, and it's not really new either. But a lack of a sense of history is another symptom of today's politics, and Crenshaw notes that even black elected officials and candidates sometimes fall victim.
The F Word: Questioning the Cycle of War
September 29, 2010
The Obama administration is frustrated with the Pakistani government's inability to quell the Taliban. Who are the US to be frustrated? The answer to the frustration's apparently a stepping up of the pilotless drone campaign. The term CIA drone campaign has embedded itself in the coverage. You know the one -- this last month's been the heaviest for attacks -- and civilian deaths -- from drones. It's the war we haven't declared and only have tacit Pakistani approval to be waging.

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