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Videos: Selections from the Afghanistan War YouTube Video Fest

Scenes from a decade of war

By GREG COOK | October 7, 2011

To mark the 10th anniversary of the beginning of the U.S. war in Afghanistan on Oct. 7, Phoenix art critic Greg Cook presents the “Afghanistan War YouTube Video Fest,” a screening of videos documenting the conflict. Here are a selection of the videos Cook will be showing.

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Soldier's video of convoy camping in Afghanistan desert.

Afghanistan War YouTube Video Fest
Friday, Oct. 7, 7 pm | Montserrat College of Art, Odd Fellows Building, Room 201, 194 Cabot St, Beverly, Massachusetts | montserrat.edu
Saturday, Oct. 8, 5:30 pm | AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence, Rhode Island | as220.org

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A couple of months ago, a man with the screen name x-amount logged on to Recidivism.org , the blog he maintains with a few of his friends, and made a pronouncement.
The wrath of God
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To listen to some pundits, Barack Obama's public image began taking a serious beating when the off-year election returns came in a week ago. Or maybe it was the undeserved Nobel Prize, his approach to the war in Afghanistan, or when he revved up his pursuit of national health-care reform.
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