rssBlogger Critiques About Afghanistan Set to Intensify
Friday, August 14, 2009 at 2:35 pm
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I wrote last week about how some members of the Get Afghanistan Right coalition were working to support a blogger to write frequent critiques of the Afghanistan war. Today, they unveiled the lucky blogger. From a press release:
Brave New Foundation and The Seminal today announced the launch of a new blog fellowship program and the selection of their first blog fellow, Return Good for Evil blogger Derrick Crowe, who will focus on the dangers of continued military action and escalation in Afghanistan. This is the first of several planned blog fellowships, which the funders hope will bring attention to issues not receiving adequate attention in the media. Brave New Foundation and The Seminal hope other groups will follow their lead and fund their own fellowships to help create a financial support structure for progressive blogging.
Full disclosure: The Seminal is hosted on the same network as my personal blog, and I debated BNF’s Robert Greenwald on a Netroots Nation panel yesterday. Here’s a quote from Crowe from the release:
“Progressives should take a good, hard look at the deepening U.S. military commitment in Afghanistan and realize it poses a dire threat to our domestic agenda. The costs are simply unsustainable and will surpass the cost of the Iraq war. These costs will constrain our ability to fund progressive change at home. When you add to these costs the growing number of civilian deaths and military casualties, it becomes clear that we need a new direction in Afghanistan. Brave New Foundation and The Seminal are working to form a realistic progressive alternative to continued militarism and escalation in Afghanistan, and I look forward to aiding their efforts,” Crowe said.
These critiques have bubbled up to the Washington establishment recently.
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Comment posted November 15, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
There is a lot of untold about Afganistan war. The topic is very difficult, sad, complicated and at the same time it is interesting to know its real sense and way. I've read a lot about it. I found a lot of stories by the veterans at the pdf search engine http://pdf.rapid4me.com . But still I believe there is a lot we don't know. That is why I'm very glad to hear about this news.
Comment posted January 11, 2010 @ 7:16 pm
“Presidents can become captive of his own record and might have to commit to things because they made strong representations about them to the public.”
Is not that a good thing that Obama avoided being captive to the shameful “strong representations” to filibuster telecom immunity?
You may have Iron Fist Velvet Glove McCain or Obama. I'm not saying that the differences, as they are, not make a difference to many millions of lives sacrificed to the empire, or differences in the precise kinds and degrees of suffering inflicted on people. If you're going to vote for any of these future commanders of the sentence, do so with eyes open and not kid ourselves “transformation”.
Comment posted January 12, 2010 @ 12:16 am
“Presidents can become captive of his own record and might have to commit to things because they made strong representations about them to the public.”
Is not that a good thing that Obama avoided being captive to the shameful “strong representations” to filibuster telecom immunity?
You may have Iron Fist Velvet Glove McCain or Obama. I'm not saying that the differences, as they are, not make a difference to many millions of lives sacrificed to the empire, or differences in the precise kinds and degrees of suffering inflicted on people. If you're going to vote for any of these future commanders of the sentence, do so with eyes open and not kid ourselves “transformation”.
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