John Nichols, TheNation.com AlterNet: World. October 20, 2009. Unfortunately for the president (and despite his words of praise), there's little evidence to suggest Hamid Karzai will stand up for democracy.
Ann Jones, Tomdispatch.com. July 20, 2009. "Fixer", a new documentary about Afghanistan, tells stories of duplicity and self-delusion that are the political currency of the embattled country.
Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group. April 2, 2009. Afghan President Hamid Karzai just signed a law consigning the women of Afghanistan to lives of terrible repression.
Nelofer Pazira, The Independent UK. February 15, 2008. A popular TV and radio host who survived Soviet tyranny has not been as lucky under Afghanistan's Western-backed "democracy."
Scarecrow, AlterNet: PEEK. October 29, 2007. Scarecrow: There's a "macabre kind of calculus" about whether the "target" was "worth" the likely number of civilian deaths.