Stories by Ann Jones
Writer/photographer Ann Jones is working as a volunteer with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) on a special project for their Gender-Based Violence (read: Violence Against Women) unit called "A Global Crescendo: Women's Voices from Conflict Zones." Her blogs about the project can be found by clicking here. She is the author, most recently, of Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan (Metropolitan Books), a report from another war that's not over.
Posted on Mar 8, 2012, Source: TomDispatch.com
No Afghan national army has ever saved a government, or even tried to. Instead, such an army has either sat on its hands during a coup d’état, or participated in one itself.
Posted on Nov 3, 2011, Source: TomDispatch.com
The author details her misadventures in America's super-secret security machine.
Posted on Aug 4, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
Based on my experience at a Forward Operating Base, it's clear enough that the hearts-and-minds part of COIN is already dead in the water.
Posted on Jul 2, 2010, Source: TomDispatch.com
Counterinsurgency is down for the count in Afghanistan… but the war machine grinds on and on and on.
Posted on Jul 20, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
"Fixer", a new documentary about Afghanistan, tells stories of duplicity and self-delusion that are the political currency of the embattled country.
Posted on Apr 6, 2009, Source: TomDispatch.com
No society that sends its men abroad for war can expect them to come home and be at peace, as returning Iraqi vets are proving in alarming numbers.
Posted on Dec 23, 2008, Source: The Nation
Mass rapes in the Congo are destroying civic life, as hundreds of thousands of rape victims are cast out from their families and communities.
Posted on Aug 18, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The murder of four humanitarian aid workers in Afghanistan should temper talk about sending more troops there.
Posted on May 14, 2008, Source: TomDispatch.com
In West Africa, the war against women doesn't end just because grim wars between men finally do.
Posted on Feb 21, 2008, Source: TomDispatch.com
Civil wars in West Africa are officially "over," but horrific violence against women continues unbated -- and is growing increasingly worse.
