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Dissident Voice, August 9, 2012
...in public, and it confines them even further to the prison of their own homes.” That’s why Malalai Joya, a former member of the Afghan parliament, argues that the only good thing the U.S. and NATO can do is get out of her country. In a statement...
Bulatlat.com, April 29, 2013
...campaigns. On the other hand, a few, the independent outspoken ones working for change, come under relentless attack. Malalai Joya, who famously (and rightly) denounced some of her colleagues as war criminals, was expelled and threatened with death....
Bulatlat.com, April 20, 2013
...including supporting the struggle for democracy and against fundamentalism and against the attacks on prominent member of Parliament, Malalai Joya and other women victims of state terror from Afghanistan; the launching of a campaign by progressive...
Dissident Voice, April 1, 2013
...the supportive-groveling qualities of Western political/cultural institutions. (Can you imagine the Nobel Committee giving the award to Amira Hass, Malalai Joya, Kathy Kelly, or Richard Falk, people actually making genuine personal sacrifices in the...
Global Exchange, March 11, 2013
...claim that military victory over the Taliban would liberate Afghan women. It was a lie--or as Afghan feminist Malalai Joya writes, “it was dust in the eyes of the world.” Yet, even as Joya and others have punctured this justification for imperial...
The News International, March 8, 2013
...this time, and in the face of consistent critiques of the occupation by Afghan (women) activists such as Malalai Joya. Instead, the idea that the US/Nato war in Afghanistan has been good for Afghan women continues to hold sway within the liberal...
Common Dreams, March 6, 2013
...the author of the new Verso book, Michael Ignatieff: The Lesser Evil? and the co-writer of Afghan MP Malalai Joya's political memoir, A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice. Derrick also served as...
Northern Echo, March 5, 2013
...the occupation itself, derailed this frightening imperial blueprint. The demonstrations may have succeeded in defusing some anti-Western terrorism. Malalai Joya, a former female Afghan MP, said that the February 15 demonstrations did not stop the war...
