Afghanistan

Crucial Stories from Indy Media in 2021

Crucial Stories from Indy Media in 2021

Independent media’s coverage this past year has informed the public through an ongoing pandemic and worsening climate catastrophes. Outlets and individuals have diligently tracked the overlapping actions of governments and corporations as misinformation muddled the...

How the Taliban Beat a Military Superpower

How the Taliban Beat a Military Superpower

On October 26, Cornell University hosted “Losing the Longest War: Afghanistan, 2001-21,” a public lecture that examined the history of the war in Afghanistan and the larger history of the kind of warfare the United States finds particularly challenging. The event...

9/11, the ‘Day that Changed Everything’

9/11, the ‘Day that Changed Everything’

We still don’t know the story of what happened and why. On the evening of September 10, 2001, New York police officer Adam Hernandez was on patrol in his Greenwich Village precinct when he saw a man smashing car windows with a hammer. It was a random act of violence...

For Afghan Women, Again

For Afghan Women, Again

This struggle of Afghan women and the fight against misogyny is hardly new, and yet new developments are happening. Newly mobilized global feminisms may be emerging. If this can happen, it might just save our planet. Afghan women ask that there be no recognition of...