Posts Tagged ‘pakistan’

Video : Washingtonians on Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, COMM 535, DC, Internet, Iran, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 16 August 2010 tagged Afghan War Diary, Afghanistan, Aryn Baker, Barack Hussein Obama, Bibi Aisha, COMM 535, Flickr, George W. Bush, Iran, pakistan, taliban, Time Magazine, Video, War Diary, WikiLeaks with View Comments

A few weeks ago I asked attendees at the screening of a documentary in D.C.’s Capitol Hill neighborhood what they knew about Afghanistan. Their responses both surprised and intrigued me. Using this intrigue as the impetus, I began a video project to ask more people in Washington, D.C. what they knew of about Afghanistan. This [...]

Afghan Women and Taliban : More Complicated Than Sensationalistic Time Magazine Thinks

In Afghanistan, COMM 535, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 29 July 2010 tagged Aisha, Article 132, Aryn Baker, Civilian Casualties, COMM 535, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and their Assault on America, Hamid Karzai, Islamabad, Kabul, NATO, pakistan, Shia Family Law, taliban, Time Magazine with View Comments

The cover of this week’s issue of Time magazine, shows an 18-year-old Afghan girl who had her nose cutoff by the Taliban with a headline that reads “What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan.” Though there is little doubt of the cruelty and barbarism of the Taliban, Time’s cover story leaves much to be desired. First [...]

Jerome Starkey is Having Fun in Afghanistan : The BNW Interview

In Afghanistan, COMM 535, History, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 29 July 2010 tagged Badakhshan, Bamian, Bamiyan, Band-e-Amir, Bollywood, Bozkashi, Buzkashi, COMM 535, Herb-i-Islami, Iran, Jerome Starkey, Kabul, Kabul Dreams, Lemar TV, Leonardo DiCaprio, Moby Group, NATO, Oasis, pakistan, Radiohead, Salon.com, Titanic, Tolo TV with View Comments

They say your attitude determine your latitude Times of London correspondent Jerome Starkey has reported on insurgencies in one of the most dangerous parts of the world while still managing to see some of the most beautiful and historic landmarks of an ancient land engulfed in endless war. The seemingly contradictory processes of war reporting [...]

WikiLeaks Publishes 90,000 Confidential Pages About U.S. and Afghanistan

In Afghanistan, COMM 535, Internet, News, Opinion, Politics, War, pakistan on 25 July 2010 tagged Afghan War Diary, Afghanistan, COMM 535, Der Spiegel, General James Jones, Guardian, Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, James Jones, Julian Assange, New York Times, pakistan, Politico, taliban, War Diary with View Comments

Due to an alleged breach in security, anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has somehow gained access to the largest collection of war documents about a war that is still in progress about the U.S. Mission in Afghanistan. The files soon to be hosted online can currently be downloaded here in CSV, SQL, or KML format. The documents, [...]

Rachel Maddow : McChrystal Doesn’t Believe in Counter-insurgency

In Afghanistan, History, News, Opinion, Politics, TV, War on 23 June 2010 tagged 10 U.S.C. § 888, Al Qaeda, Counter-Insurgency, counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, General Stanley McChrystal, Helmand, IAVA, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, Kandahar, Marja, Marjah, Michael Hastings, MSNBC, NATO, pakistan, Paul Rieckhoff, Rachel Maddow, Rachel Maddow Show, Rolling Stone, Stanley McChrystal, Stars and Stripes, taliban, The Rachel Maddow Show, US Code - Section 888: Art. 88, Video with View Comments

Discussing General Stanley McChrystal’s dismissal, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow began to question General McChrystal’s focus on counter-insurgency in Afghanistan. Unfortunately for Maddow’s partisan audience, the tone displayed in her questioning suggested a lack of understanding of the situation on the ground for the Afghans and a dismissive attitude towards a legitimate policy created to ensure that [...]