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Dahr Jamail on Talk Nation Radio
Dori Smith with Talk Nation Radio conducts an in-depth, heart-felt interivew with Dahr Jamail about his new book. Dahr discusses US foreign policy under Barack Obama, the U.S. Empire Project, and a growing number of soldiers who are refusing to take part in it.
Russia Today Interviews Dahr Jamail on Afghanistan Troops
As the US continues to step up war efforts in Afghanistan, the number of US soldiers refusing deployment to war zones is also increasing. On the ground, they find themselves being terrorists, says writer Dahr Jamail. Russia Today’s Marina Portnaya talks to Dahr about the subject of his new book, The Will to Resist.
Lara Flanders Interviews Dahr Jamail and Jose Vasquez
Journalist/author Dahr Jamail and IVAW president Jose Vasquez talk to Lara Flanders of GritTV about military resistance in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Dahr Interviewed by Radio New Zealand
Radio New Zealand National’s Kathryn Ryan talks to Dahr about his journalism in Iraq and advocacy for veterans.
Dahr Jamail on Al Jazeera’s Riz Khan Show
From the Al Jazeera site: US military casualties are on the rise in Afghanistan and Iraq, and post-traumatic stress disorders are increasing among soldiers who have returned from these war zones.
Hundreds of enlisted military men and women have refused to return to the front lines, many on conscientious objector grounds.
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Flashpoints Interviews Dahr Jamail on GI Resistance
Nora Barrows-Friedman of KPFA’s Flashpoints radio interviews Dahr about Sgt. Travis Bishop’s court martial and the expanding GI resistance movement.
Flashpoints Interview
Nora Barrows-Friedman with KPFA radio interviews Dahr Jamail about his new book: The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Scott Horton Interviews Dahr Jamail on Military Resisters
Dahr Jamail, author of the article “Refusing to Comply: The Tactics of Resistance in an All-Volunteer Military,” discusses the increasing disillusionment among soldiers for Iraq and Afghanistan war justifications, the tactics of evading dangerous and pointless “IED lottery” patrols, Pentagon estimates of 25-40 thousand AWOL soldiers since 2003 and how the U.S. economic downturn is preventing a large organized war resistance from taking hold within the military.
Interview: Major Upswing in Iraq Violence
US soldiers have been dying in larger numbers, one per day for the past five days. There had been thirty five bombings in Baghdad alone during the month of April, by the time we phoned Jamail April 27th.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed, hundreds more wounded, and there is no end in sight. Does this mean the Obama administration will change withdrawal plans? The administration confirmed US combat troops will leave Iraq by August of 2010.
Could the government of Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki survive without the US occupation to prop it up?
We’ll discuss these questions and more with Dahr Jamail, author of ‘Beyond the Green Zone, Dispatches from an unembedded journalist in occupied Iraq’.
Iraqi Doctors in Hiding
Seventy percent of Iraq’s doctors are reported to have fled the war-torn country in the face of death threats and kidnappings. Those who remain live in fear, often in conditions close to house arrest. Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola speak with doctors in a Baghdad hospital about life during war and occupation.
