Sonali Kolhatkar and James Ingalls are the co-directors of the Afghan Women's Mission, a US-based non-profit organisation that works with the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). Their writings have appeared in Z Magazine, Foreign Policy in Focus, on Alternet, Common Dreams and in Counter Punch. In February 2005, Kolhatkar and Ingalls travelled to Afghanistan to witness first-hand the results of US policy and to understand how ordinary Afghans felt about the war. Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and producer of Uprising, a popular, daily, drive-time program on KPFK, Pacific Radio in Los Angeles. James Ingalls is a Staff Scientist at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology.
“A wake-up call to everyone who thought the war in Afghanistan was a success story.” –Eve Ensler “This is not The Bookseller of Kabul or The Kite Runner. It is not for latte-drinking liberals who want to save exotic Afghan women or men. It's about what America is really doing today in Afghanistan after the Taliban was ousted, and what we did before.” –Pratap Chatterjee, author of Iraq, Inq.: A Profitable Occupation