I spoke with @thediplomat.com about the Taliban and the big powers - the US, China and India. thediplomat.com/2024/12/ahma...

Here's an idea for the next arrest warrant by @intlcrimcourt.bsky.social's top prosecutor: rukhshana.com/en/from-torm...

@hurstpublishers.bsky.social is offering a 50% discount on all books for Black Friday -- including on my book with Prof William Maley, The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan. Get your copy here: www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-dec...

The Pacifist Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight, But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right. - Hilaire Belloc

Invaluable writing by Dan Trombly on likelihoods of far-right street violence in an age of reactionary ascendancy www.unpopularfront.news/p/will-the-s...

Lawyers, this is why you need to define your terms 📃

Massive congrats to Nila Ibrahimi for winning this award search.app?link=https%3...

I don’t think it will all fit in there.

The U.S. is sending land mines to Ukraine. Not a step to take lightly. In Afghanistan, land mines killed people long after the battles they were laid for. Although the U.S. says its mines deactivate after a time. And Russia is already using them. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Given how both Trump and Biden treated NATO member states in the lead-up to, and during, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, this is sensible

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Friends! Please follow Afghan analyst and former Afghan National Security Council member Shuja Jamal! And he has a book!

This is important journalism about the cost of Taliban's totalitarian control in Afghanistan - with a clique of terrorists in charge of public policy, it's the marginalized that pay the price.