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The Katie Halper Show

The Militarized Media Coverage Of Afghanistan With Vet & Nobel Peace Prize Nom

The Katie Halper Show

Katie Halper

News

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Three times Nobel Peace Prize nominated peace activist Kathy Kelly and anti war veteran and author Danny Sjursen discuss Afghanistan, what the war was about, what the war was not about, why Biden's statements on the terrorist "threats" in other countries & on the Kabul blast were troubling. And they debunk the disingenuous media narrative about women's rights and human rights. Kathy Kelly, a peace activist and author, made over two dozen trips to Afghanistan from 2010 – 2019, living with Afghan Peace Volunteers in a working class neighborhood in Kabul. She and her companions in various peace team delegations believe that where you stand determines what you see. Kelly lived with families in Baghdad throughout the 2003 Shock and Awe invasion and during the first weeks of the U.S. occupation. Kelly is now campaigning for an international treaty to ban weaponized drones. Danny Sjursen is an anti-war veteran; the director of @mediaeisenhower (EMN); Senior Fellow at @CIPolicy; contributing editor at @Antiwarcom. He was recently selected as the 2019 Lannan Foundation cultural freedom fellow. He is the author of a memoir and critical analysis of the Iraq War, Ghostriders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge; Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War; and A True History of the United States: Indigenous Genocide, Racialized Slavery, Hyper-Capitalism, Militarist Imperialism and Other Overlooked Aspects of American Exceptionalism He is a member of several activist organizations, including Veterans for Peace and About Face: Veterans against the War. Follow him on Twitter at @SkepticalVet.

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live shows.

0:34.9

Hello and welcome to The Katie Helper Show, so excited to be here with my Thursday night

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co-pilot, Leslie Lee.

0:50.8

Hey, Kay, thank you so much for having me back, happy to be here.

0:55.2

Yes, and welcome viewers.

0:56.7

We're so excited to be talking to Kathy Kelly, as well as Danny Sherson.

1:01.5

Kathy Kelly is a major piece activist who's no big deal, but she has been nominated for

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the Nobel Peace Prize Thrice.

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She's a Thrice Nobel Peace Prize nominee, which I don't know where you are Leslie and

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your nominations.

1:15.4

I mean, that's a head trick.

1:17.5

That's impressive in anything if you get three.

1:20.0

Yeah.

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Yeah, three.

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You get three webby nominations, three shorty nominations.

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You put down your two or a bio, I mean, the right time nominated, webby, I'm now three

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