Showing posts with label taliban. Show all posts
Showing posts with label taliban. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Have We Learned to Love the Taliban?

Have we learned to love the Taliban? And how did this major shift happen so quickly? On the next Your Call, we'll have a conversation about the recent plans to start negotiations with the Taliban. Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants to talk to Taliban leaders, and his backers in the U.S. and Europe are all for it. What does this shift mean for the future of Afghanistan?

Join us live at 11 or send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org. Are you ready for U.S. troops pulling out of Afghanistan, regardless of what it means for the future of the Afghan people? It's Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.

Guests:
Alam Payind, director of the Middle East Studies Center at Ohio State University.

Aunohita Mojumdar, a freelance journalist covering Afghanistan for the last six years for the Christian Science Monitor, AlJazeera.com, Eurasianet and other outlets.

Click to Listen: Have We Learned to Love the Taliban?

Friday, January 29, 2010

Media Roundtable

On the next Your Call, it's our Friday media roundtable. This week, we'll discuss the coverage of President Obama's State of the Union address, Haiti and the London summit about negotiations with Taliban. We'll be joined by McClatchy's Nancy Youssef, Washington Monthly's Charles Homans and veteran investigative journalist Mark Danner. What did you see this week that grabbed your attention? Send us an email at feedback@yourcallradio.org or call us live at 11:00. It's Your Call, with Matt Martin and you.

Guests:
Mark Danner, a writer and reporter who for 25 years has written on politics and foreign affairs, focusing on war and conflict.

Nancy A. Youssef, Pentagon correspondent for McClatchy Newspapers.

Charles Homans, an editor at the Washington Monthly.

Click to Listen: Media Roundtable