Tariq Ali: Afghanistan to Pakistan--on the flightpath of american power

British-Pakistani scholar and activist Tariq Ali talks about NATO's stated role in Afghanistan, the economic devastation of Pakistan, the transformation of the Taliban, and other issues related to the US war in the region. This is seriously one of the most useful analyses of the war I've heard. A must-listen. Audio here.

Afghanistan Links

Revolutionary women in Afghanistan and another overview of the conflict.

Recent history of Afghanistan

Abdul Malik Mujahid provides a terse synopsis of the last three decades in Afghanistan. Obviously any article that condenses 30 years of a nation's history into a few paragraphs will be incomplete and controversial. Nonetheless, it's pretty harrowing and a basis for further investigation.



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