{"id":41790,"date":"2014-10-29T10:53:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41790"},"modified":"2014-10-29T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T17:53:47","slug":"underground-afghan-womens-group-says-us-leaves-afghanistan-worse-than-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/10\/29\/underground-afghan-womens-group-says-us-leaves-afghanistan-worse-than-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Underground Afghan Women&#8217;s Group Says US Leaves Afghanistan Worse Than Before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141029Uprising\/2014_10_29_rawarina.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Reena <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141029Uprising\/2014_10_29_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/ashraf_ghani.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Thirteen years after the US launched a war in Afghanistan, Marines, along with British forces, left a key base in Helmand Province, turning it over to Afghanistan&#8217;s government. The base closure is part of a planned draw-down of forces that President Obama promised, and represents a transition role for the US which focuses on training and advising Afghan troops. While the troop reduction is supposed to signal the wrapping up of a war, the war in Afghanistan is anything but over. According to Reuters, &#8220;Casualties among both civilians and Afghan security forces are near all-time highs this year, with hundreds killed and wounded each month in the conflict.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Afghans elected a new President who took office just weeks ago. In one of his first acts as President, Mr. Ashraf Ghani signed a long-awaited security agreement with the United States. Ghani took over from Hamid Karzai, a two-term President who became wracked with accusations of corruption. But Ghani&#8217;s election was marred by so much evidence of fraud that he was forced to share power with his closest rival, Abdullah Abdullah, who Ghani named Afghanistan&#8217;s first Chief Executive Officer, a newly created role akin to a Prime Minister. <\/p>\n<p>Even more controversially, Ghani named as his First Vice President, Abdul Rashid Dostum, one of Afghanistan&#8217;s most notorious warlords who Ghani himself referred to as &#8220;a known killer&#8221; some years ago. Dostum has been strongly implicated in the mass killing of 2000 Taliban soldiers in 2001, among other war crimes. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Reena, a member of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, an underground women&#8217;s political organization that has worked since 1977 to organize Afghans against fundamentalism and foreign occupation. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit RAWA online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawa.org\">www.rawa.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen years after the US launched a war in Afghanistan, Marines, along with British forces, left a key base in Helmand Province, turning it over to Afghanistan&#8217;s government. The base closure is part of a planned draw-down of forces that President Obama promised, and represents a transition role for the US which focuses on training [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41793,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41790\/revisions\/41793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}