During the summer of 2007, Hamayon Rastgar and Michael Skinner toured throughout Afghanistan where they listened to working class Afghans, students, academics, journalists, and opposition political leaders, who have no voice in the North American media. After hearing the stories told by these Afghans, Rastgar and Skinner conclude the war in Afghanistan is not an altruistic war about liberating Afghans and certainly not about liberating Afghan women. Instead, the Canadian state is motivated by economics and geopolitics – this is a war about liberating capital. A few North American businesses may profit immensely from this war as Canada manoeuvres itself into a favourable position in America’s New World Order.
Hamayon Rastgar is a M.A. candidate in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, and a member of the Afghanistan Canada Research Group (ACRG)
Michael Skinner is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at York University, a Researcher at the York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS), and a member of the Afghanistan Canada Research Group (ACRG).
Audio of the Lecture:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/29699Photos by J Boone
