“Go massive — sweep it all up, things related and not,” then-US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said after 9/11 attacks, as the US bombers, gunships and drones wreaked havoc in Afghanistan.
What happened to news about Afghanistan? After their spectacular sweep of the entire country and overnight victory, there is no news now. And Taliban websites remain closed. Just human interest stuff about traitors/ cowards/ whatevers fleeing to the US or wherever. A convening of Afghan women parliamentarians, holding a mock Afghan parliament in exile (a […]
Most of us are voluntarily or involuntarily part of some kind of group, but when we step behind the curtain of the polling booth we are alone, and we are atomised beings removed from any and all affiliations.