How do you teach a war that’s still ongoing, and that carries so much political baggage? This week on War News Radio, we hear about a curriculum available that brings Iraq to high-school classrooms.
And, as politicians strike a deal to outlaw inhumane treatment of prisoners in American custody, we visit a center that specializes in treating victims of torture.
With [...]
This week on War News Radio, we hear about the Iraqi film industry from an aspiring filmaker in Baghdad.
And we look at the images Americans are getting - and not getting - of the Iraq war.
Last, we visit with an Iraqi artist about how he improvised in order to keep painting through the invasion of Iraq.
These stories, plus the week’s [...]
This week on War News Radio, we review the President’s “Plan for Victory” and the reaction it has received.
Also, Reuben Heyman-Kantor chats with a soldier’s mother who has started her own blog.
Then, Wren Elhai gets the scoop on the Iraqi Stock Exchange from its CEO.
And, an update on the lawsuit filed by eight Iraqis who claim they were tortured by [...]
This week on War News Radio, should we stay or should we go? Congress debates if troops should come home or sit tight in 2006, we take a look at Congressman and veteran John Murtha’s call for immediate withdrawal.
We also bring you the story of Walter Jones, one of the first conservative congressmen to withdraw his support of [...]
This week on War News Radio, we take a look at Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and why, even after Vietnam, it still often goes untreated.
Also, we examine the results of the recent off-year elections and how the War in Iraq played into campaign strategy.
And we check in on Iraq’s controversial Deputy Prime Minister, Ahmed Chalabi, as he tours the United [...]
The President says we won’t leave Iraq until Iraqi forces can fend for themselves. How are they doing? This week on War News Radio, we hear about how Iraqi Army recruiting efforts are going.
Then we take a look back at how the army operated in Saddam’s Iraq - and earlier.
As Syrians wrestle with the aftermath of [...]
This week on War News Radio, we investigate a few of the paths that lead young men and women to Iraq. Reporter Tevye Kelman tries to sign up at a recruiting station in Philadelphia.
Also, John Williams talks to Individual Ready Reservists who never expected to get called up for duty.
Democratic journalist Seymour Hersh and conservative former weapons [...]
This week on War News Radio, Iraq most likely has a constitution, but what next? Sunni politician Adnan Pachachi gives WNR his prediction of key issues for the December elections.
Is instability spreading to Iraq’s neighbors? Reuben Heyman-Kantor gets an international perspective on new friction between Syria and the U.S.
Condoleezza Rice testifies about US military plans for Iraq, [...]
This week on War News Radio, Reuben Heyman-Kantor looks into whether or not the U.S. is building permanent military bases in Iraq.
Aaron Strong also examines the status of women’s rights in Kurdistan. Are women in the Kurdish north of Iraq really better off than their Arab counterparts?
And, in a new edition of Iraq 101, Anne Kolker puts [...]
We the people of Iraq, newly arisen from our disasters and looking with confidence to the future through a democratic, federal, republican system, are determined - men and women, old and young - to respect the rule of law, reject the policy of aggression, pay attention to women and their rights, the elderly and their cares, the children [...]
This week on War News Radio, we look closely at media coverage of the war in Iraq. First, Jennesa Calvo-Friedman and Luke Smith bring us voices from the September 24th war protest in Washington, DC.
Brooke Gladstone, managing editor and co-host of NPR’s On the Media comments on why it’s difficult for reporters in Iraq to cover more than [...]
This week on War News Radio, we examine the religious violence in Iraq. Experts Mark Juergensmeyer and Mark Levine weigh in on how religion changed the stakes in the war in Iraq.
Also, Eva Barboni takes a look at progress — and impasse— in the American peace movement.
And a young Iraqi man speaks to Amelia Templeton about insecurity [...]
This week on War News Radio, Reuben Heyman-Kantor learns about insecurity and solidarity along the Iraqi-Syrian border from an American professor in Damascus.
Also, Wren Elhai takes a look at whether our presence in Iraq made us less capable of tackling Hurricane Katrina.
Finally, Eva Barboni introduces listeners to Iraqi poems and prose with the help of two professors, [...]
