...Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2002 DOCUMENT Shoulder to Shoulder, Hand in Hand: Resistance under the Iron Fist in Afghanistan Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA...

... with young, educated, and secular Afghan Americans whose families came to the United States after the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, tell a different story of 9/11 than that of eyewitnesses and survivors at the World Trade Center. In addition to illuminating the impact of 9/11 on the everyday life...

..., the country was targeted because of its freedoms and high ideals, and the attacks constituted a declaration of war, to which the United States could respond in kind against targets of its choice. This interpretation led to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but over time it has run into opposition at home...

...Elizabeth Mesok This article analyzes the gendered performances of American military women during the US-led occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Through an examination of Lioness teams and female engagement teams—all-female teams used to navigate “cultural norms,” present the US military...

...Martha Howell 2005 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization,Inc. 2005 INTERVENTIONS The Women Bush Forgot Martha Howell Just after the United States went into Afghanistan and had more or less routed...

... the organizers and perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks. Although some raised their voices in opposition to the war on Afghanistan in London (and in Washington), these critiques remained cries in the wilderness.4 Blair recognized an opportune moment to strike when nerves were raw, truth was abstract, and any...

... in the context of the well-known role the United States played in Afghanistan following the Soviet invasion. The United States, still reeling from Vietnam, no longer wanted to use the conventional methods of state warfare in the struggle against the Soviets. Instead, the country began to covertly fund...

...- porations are routinely granted, as Washington meanwhile rapidly slashes federal funding for such domestic programs as public education, housing, health, and social security in general. In this analytic framework, the U.S.-led multinational invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001 and, particularly...

... them. Internationally, these conservative governments engaged in foreign policies that supported a wide range of movements and activities broadly defined as “anticommunist,” of which funding the Mujahideen in Afghanistan was only one example. As a result, neoliberal views and policies became common...

... Bacevich Paul L. Atwood Andrew J. Bacevich, a professor of international relations and history at Boston University, has emerged over the past decade as a leading critic of U.S. foreign pol- icy, and particularly of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This graduate of West Point and veteran...

... organization.”3 Hence neo­ medievalists reiterate cultural hierarchies inscribing various others into a religious, raced, gendered matrix of chivalry versus barbarity, masculinity versus feminin- ity, Occident versus Orient. Such thinking celebrates the incursions into Iraq and Afghanistan as exercises...

... It seemed worthwhile to read feminist works reviewing reactions to 9/11 and the war on Afghanistan by subjects in multiple locations. These provided important refl ections on U.S. aggression prior to the invasion of Iraq. Two collections of femi- nist essays, Susan...

... how the United States acts in the world. Whether admirers of Obama’s administration want to admit it, the policies that began in 2003 under the name of US empire are very much still with us. That the US war on terror, which began in Iraq but has now spread to Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan...

.... The literature and films made most students feel uneasy about the devastation that U.S. policies brought on people in Afghanistan and Iraq. Even those students who had a liberal outlook on politics, and who were critical of U.S. policies, were not fully aware of the extent of the mis- ery created...

... of the SERE program to Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) to Iraq via Afghanistan, where they continue to be practiced today. 112   113 114   115 116   117 118   119 120   121 122   123 124   125 126   127 128 Source notes: Pages 11 2  –  113 : This was the first document released, after...

... to Afghanistan to the Maghreb. Those archaeo- logical teams forced to abandon sites in Syria due to violence and conflict to which their own governments have contributed, were seeking permits for excavations in 12  Radical History Review Iraqi Kurdistan around 2010 – 13 (where the number of Western...

.... Almost any comic book or graphic novel published in the past decade that touches on foreign policy, for example, is likely to reference 9/11, either explicitly or by implication. Two obvious examples are Ted Rall’s To Afghanistan and Back, published in 2002, and David Axe’s War Fix, published...

... self-interest emerged as the alleged main preoccupations. Whether act- ing alone, or in alliance with the United States, in Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Yugosla- via, Sudan, Afghanistan, or Iraq, British governments have always sought to estab- lish a moral or ideological justification for their actions...

... In Afghanistan, US forces used mobile clinics to draw women in and extract information from them, making them targets for insurgent attacks, while in Pakistan, the US government used a vaccination campaign to gather intelligence (and DNA), leading to Taliban fatwas against vaccination programs, which in turn...

... representation of women in parliament with 48.8 percent,31 and in Kosovo’s parliamentary and municipal assemblies, women’s representation came to 28 percent.32 Since the fall of the Tali- ban in Afghanistan, every government has included a minister of women’s affairs; in Afghanistan’s 2005 parliamentary...