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of women in this region.
    The suffering that has been dealt to Palestinians is one where people have not only heard their calling and their cries, but have risen to the occasion to say that the people have had enough and greater involvement through transnational, global, and humanitarian means is essentially imperative in order to regain a sense of empowerment.
    Sources: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement, www.bdsmovement.net ; C. Hanley, “Students Campaign to Boycott Israeli Aggression,”
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
30, no. 1 (2011): 58; Laura Pulido Lloyd, “In the Long Shadow of the Settler: On Israeli and US Colonialisms,”
American Quarterly
62, no. 4 (2010): 795–812;
New Statesman 1
39 (November 29, 2010): 40; Tim McCaskell, “Queers Against Apartheid,”
Canadian Dimension
44, no. 4 (2010): 14–20; June Edmunds, “Elite’ Young Muslims in Britain: From Transnational to Global Politics,”
Contemporary Islam
4, no. 2 (2010): 215; Mia Bloom, “Death Becomes Her: Women, Occupation, and Terrorist Mobilization,”
PS, Political Science & Politics
43, no. 3 (2010): 445–51.
Censored 2011 #10

US Funds and Supports the Taliban
    Update by Salma Habib
    In a continuous flow of money, American tax dollars end up paying members of the Taliban and funding a volatile environment inAfghanistan. Private contractors pay insurgents with the hope of attaining the very safety they are contracted to provide. Concurrently, US soldiers pay at checkpoints run by suspected insurgents in order to get safe passage. In some cases, Afghan companies run by former Taliban members, like President Hamid Karzai’s cousin, are protecting the passage of American soldiers. The funding of the insurgents, along with rumors of American helicopters ferrying Taliban members in Afghanistan, has led to widespread distrust of American forces. In the meantime, the US taxpayer’s dollar continues to fund insurgents to protect American troops so they can fight insurgents.
    Original Corporate Source: Andrew Rice, “Is There Such a Thing as Agro-Imperialism?”
New York Times
, November 16, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/magazine/22land-t.html .
    Original Sources: Aram Roston, “How the US Funds the Taliban,”
Nation
, November 20, 2009, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20091130/roston ; Ahmad Kawoosh, “Is the US Aiding the Taliban?”
Taiwan News
, October 31, 2009, http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1095689&lang=eng_news&cate_img=140.jpg&cate_rss=news_Opinion ; Ahmad Kawoosh, “Helicopter Rumor Refuses to Die,” Institute for War and Peace Reporting, November 2, 2009, http://www.iwpr.net/?p=arr&s=f&o=356886 .
    Update: The Taliban have made a name for themselves as a resistant group fighting to preserve their control over sovereign territories in Afghanistan The group has been known to subject citizens and others to heinous forms of torture and to perpetrate great forms of brutality onto citizens of the region. Namely, their treatment of women as second-class citizens through the practice of their imposed authority has placed the Taliban on the global map as an oppressive entity in the public sphere. A concerted effort has been made on the part of the American government to extricate this authority, yet many of the promises made to eliminate their presence have gone unfulfilled. During the period of 2001 to 2009, the US situation in Afghanistan had been growing progressively worse; the Taliban has made a comeback and challenged both the central Karzai government and tribal leaders throughout the region to gain control.
    President Obama himself has argued to eliminate the presence of the Taliban, yet what’s become most challenging is that most military leaders have failed to present clear and detailed strategies of how theyintend on tackling the issue of the Taliban. In the midst of an economy that’s recently shelled out roughly $1.5 trillion to save failing companies, it seems questionable why the