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Showing videos filed under: Sonali Kolhatkar
Sonali Kolhatkar: Reflecting on Bin Laden, Afghanistan
May 3, 2011"Bin Laden's ideology is not the ideology of the masses, of the Arabs, of people in central Asia, of Muslims," notes Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission. But, she notes, the danger is that now by killing him we have made him a martyr and inflamed anger again among people already feeling marginalized.Tariq Ali, Sonali Kolhatkar, and Voices from Ground Zero
May 2, 2011"If the aim was to show us that state terror was more powerful than individual terrorists, we already knew that," says Tariq Ali of the U.S. special forces action that reportedly killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. As Americans celebrated outside of the White House and gathered at Ground Zero to remember those lost, Tariq reminds us that bin Laden's death will not make the U.S. safer.Sonali Kolhatkar: Missing Media on Afghanistan
August 18, 2010The media face of the war in Afghanistan is a woman's face--one particular mutilated woman, in the case of Time. Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission notes, though, that this is a clear strategy from those who benefit from the war to win over European and American audiences. Meanwhile, Afghan women who oppose occupation, like former GRITtv guest Malalai Joya, are silenced in the media just as they are silenced in Afghan politics.Rethink Afghanistan: Progress? We've heard it before
August 18, 2010As Sonali Kolhatkar pointed out, "progress" in Afghanistan is entirely in the eyes of the beholder. While the vast majority of the American people believes that the war will end badly, General Petraeus is now repeating the same lines we've heard before, on Iraq and Afghanistan--things are going better, we can win this war. Brave New Films put out this video to show just how many times we've heard this line--and how untrue it continues to be.Sonali Kolhatkar, Rethink Afghanistan, and Psychology of Torture
August 17, 2010The media face of the war in Afghanistan is a woman's face--one particular mutilated woman, in the case of Time. Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission notes, though, that this is a clear strategy from those who benefit from the war to win over European and American audiences. Meanwhile, Afghan women who oppose occupation, like former GRITtv guest Malalai Joya, are silenced in the media just as they are silenced in Afghan politics.Can Democratic Elections in Afghanistan Make a Difference?
August 26, 2009The official line coming out of last week's election in Afghanistan was that it was a democratic 'success'. Was it? We talk to independent journalist Anand Gopal and Human Rights Watch researcher Rachel Reid. But how realistic is the prospect of change regardless of the outcome of the Afghan vote? Afghan journalist Syed Abdul Rahim, and Women for Afghan Women Board member Esther Hyneman join J Alexander Thier from the Rule of Law Center of Innovation at the United States Institute of Peace and Sonali Kolhatkar, co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission and co-author of the book, “Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence.Human Rights in Afghanistan, Can the Election Make a Difference? and an Underground Railroad for Iraqi Women
August 25, 2009The official line coming out of last week's election in Afghanistan was that it was a democratic 'success'. Was it? We talk to independent journalist Anand Gopal and Human Rights Watch researcher Rachel Reid. But how realistic is the prospect of change regardless of the outcome of the Afghan vote? Afghan journalist Syed Abdul Rahim, and Women for Afghan Women Board member Esther Hyneman join J Alexander Thier from the Rule of Law Center of Innovation at the United States Institute of Peace and Sonali Kolhatkar, co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission and co-author of the book, “Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence. Then, while President Obama's declared an end date for Americans in the Iraq war, will it ever be that simple for Iraqis? We talk to Yanar Mohammed, President of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq and Yifat Susskind, communications director at MADRE who are helping women survive in the mess that is today's Iraq.
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