Greece Crisis Friday By Jayati Ghosh

Fiction of Marjah as City Was US Misinformation by Gareth Porter -- Antiwar.com

Fiction of Marjah as City Was US Misinformation by Gareth Porter -- Antiwar.com

Haiti: The Mobilization of Aid, Public Discourses and Political Action By Manuel Rozental

Haiti: The Mobilization of Aid, Public Discourses and Political Action by Manuel Rozental from Justin Podur on Vimeo.

On February 11, YCISS at York University held a panel on Haiti. “Haiti: The Mobilization of Aid, Public Discourses and Political Action within Canada” examined how the mobilization of aid is occurring through the media, diasporas, non-governmental organizations, the military – particularly the Canadian Forces – and other government institutions, and to what effect. The following is Manuel Rozental's talk from the YCISS panel. Manuel Rozental is associated with the University of Toronto and a coordinator for the Canada-Colombia Solidarity Campaign.

Why they are sending 11,000 troops

"But in purely military terms, sending 11,000 U.S. and Afghan troops to defeat a few hundred Taliban fighters in Marja won't change much in Afghanistan. The greater significance of the battle is in how it is perceived in the rest of Afghanistan and in America. The campaign's goals are to convince Americans that a new era has arrived in the eight-year-long war and to show Afghans that U.S. forces and the Afghan government can protect them from the Taliban.
...Military officials in Afghanistan hope a large and loud victory in Marja will convince the American public that they deserve more time to demonstrate that extra troops and new tactics can yield better results on the battlefield." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/21/AR2010022104201.html