Community Currency - 04/22/10

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"Myths of Our Times" with Elizabeth Gould, co-author, with her husband Paul Fitzgerald of Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story http://www.invisiblehistory.com/the-book. Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald were the first American journalists to visit Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion. For decades they have watched a myth being constructed about Afghanistan's history, current state, and future woven into being with little regard for truth and reality. Their book, film, articles, speeches, mission for decades has been to help the Afghan people's story reach receptive ears to avert war, terrorism, occupation. Most recently Elizabeth and Paul were threatened by a representative of one of the most notorious known terrorists in Afghanistan, after they wrote a post on their blog entitled- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Messiah of Darknesshttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-gould/gulbuddin-hekmatyar-the-m_b_525305.html . Elizabeth explores the history and construction of the Afghan myth in this show and advises us to be aware of the complexity and historical context before jumping to conclusions on the basis of slim pieces of information, woven together by the corporate media. The upcoming Understanding Deep Politics Conference http://understandingdeeppolitics.org/  will expand upon this subject of fabricated realities and challenging the forces acting with impunity that have declared war on civilians throughout the world.