Login | Register

226 online

Most Popular Choices

38

Quotations 10/23/2009 at 1:25 PM EDT

U.S. Military Needed for Further Liberation of Afghani Women?

Submitted By Kevin Gosztola No comments

Kevin Gosztola

Become a Fan
(62 fans)

View Quotations by: Authors Subjects Tag Country Date Range

View Author Page at Wikipedia
Search for Orzala Ashraf at Amazon.com

Quotation by Orzala Ashraf:

I do not expect any outside power to come and liberate me. If I cannot liberate myself, no one from outside can liberate me.

Orzala Ashraf (more by this author)

founder of Humanitarian Assistance for Women and Children in Afghansitan (HAWCA)

Type: Prose
Context: Movie
Context Details: In part 5 of Robert Greenwald\\\'s Rethink Afghanistan, the myth that U.S. military must stay in Afghanistan to keep women free and liberated is dissected one by one by women from Afghanistan who have suffered most from America\\\'s war and occupation in
Source: Robert Greenwald's Rethink Afghanistan

Rate It | View Ratings

Kevin Gosztola Social Media Pages:

Kevin Gosztola is managing editor of Shadowproof Press. He also produces and co-hosts the weekly podcast, "Unauthorized Disclosure." He was an editor for OpEdNews.com

Related Topic(s): Afghanistan; Liberation; War Military; Women, Add Tags

Go To Commenting

The views expressed herein are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.

Contact Author

Contact Editor

Author Page

View Authors' Articles

OpEdNews ~~depends upon~~ can't survive without your help.

If you value this article and the work of OpEdNews, please either Donate or Purchase a premium membership.

STAY IN THE KNOW
If you've enjoyed this, sign up for our daily or weekly newsletter to get lots of great progressive content.

To View Comments or Join the Conversation:

Congress Switchboard: 202-224-3121

To remove advertising from OpEd News, please become a premium member.

"Rob Kall has certainly acquired the firsthand experiences and knowledge gained through interviews to deliver some interesting insights about the "bottom-up" information revolution. Whereas the old 'top-down' systems created stove-pipes and excessive secrecy that blocked information sharing and led to the 'failure to connect the dots' before 9-11, the bottom-up approach should be the main fix. Kall's concept would seem to interface equally well with the founding fathers' idealism in setting forth their democratic theory of governance as with the realism that makes the multi-sourced, bottom-up Wikipedia work. As someone who shares my support of both government and corporate whistleblowing -- which is nothing more than encouraging greater horizontal sharing of information, I commend Rob Kall's important work on this topic."

Coleen Rowley, former FBI special agent and named one of TIME Magazine's "Persons of the Year" in 2002)

Art Instruction for People
At All Skill Levels

Top Content
in the Last 2 Days
(by Page Views)

The Awful Transformation of Bernie Sanders by earl ofari hutchinson ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Charter School Makes the Case Against Its Renewal by Carl Petersen ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Tomgram: John Feffer, Can Europe Stop Trump and Putin? by Tom Engelhardt ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

To Watch a Telescreen Watch You! by Dr. Lenore Daniels ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Paula Manduca: Rest in Peace Rest in Power Posted by Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Book Review: here Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by John Hawkins ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

No extra pardons for Jan. 6 reoffenders by Robert Weiner ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Left Desperately Needs Knowledge Management to Retain Closed Agency and Org Info and Knowledge by Rob Kall ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Eating Healthy is Do-able / Eating healthily on the fly (plus thoughts on hypoglycemia) by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Big Question About the UN Security Council's Gaza Ceasefire Resolution by Thomas Knapp ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Positive Visions of the Future by Blair Gelbond ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Poor Elise, Trump loyalty only goes one way by Bob Gaydos ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Case Against European Rearmament Posted by Scott Baker ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Making It In America Posted by Robert Borosage ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The End of Recessions in the United States? by Joel Joseph ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The Eclipse as Cosmic Muse by Meryl Ann Butler ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Trump Seeks Takeover of Elections in a Bid for More Presidential Power Posted by Marta Steele ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

From Trump to Biden to Trump: what happened to us? by Brian Cooney ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Our monster (a poem, reposted from March 2016, followed by the original reflection) by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

IMAGINING OUR FUTURE: PERILS AND PROMISE Story 1: The Global Brain Is Waking Up by Blair Gelbond ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Fareed Zakaria and Ezra Klein on President Trump's Foreign Policy (REVIEW ESSAY) by Thomas Farrell ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Trump "is playing silly games with the serious, cherished beliefs of millions of Americans." by Lance Moore ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Romney Hires Voter Suppression Guru by Lee Fang ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The chasm between TB and HIV continues by Citizen News Service - CNS ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

The man in the yellow shirt -- Footprints in the sand by Gary Lindorff ( With membership, you can see # of pageviews)

Go To Top 50 Most Popular

Ad info: click here

Classics of Liberal Thinking

Progressive Radio Links