#minarepakistanincident This is just heartbreaking but so powerful.

It didn’t resonate because “the ideas it (Orientalism) expressed were so commonsensical, even banal...(and) had circulated in all sorts of ways across the Arab world for nearly a century before Said wrote about them.”

It's not as if some people didn't explain where #Afghanistan was headed more than a decade ago. This is John Mearsheimer from 2009: mearsheimer.com/wp-content/upl…

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” ― E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful.

1. Contrary to what revisionists & Taliban apologists claim, the actual power brokers in the group planned for "long guerrilla war" very quickly -- just like the one fought against the Soviets. Here's Jalaluddin Haqqani in Oct. 2001: gulfnews.com/uae/taliban-le…

I don’t think anyone will beat this tweet on this whole matter!!

God bless stump mics, the chirping around the wicket was clear on the plan. Including the boundaries in the process. But it landed almost perfectly in Fawad’s hands. Has to be the match. Unless lightening really does strike twice. Kemar Roach...just the once please!!

Pitch perfect!!

"Those who can't love their country without shouting slogans, without addressing her as mother, without imagining her as goddess, are not actually devoted to the country. Their attraction is towards the intoxication of nationalism, not the nation herself." ~Rabindranath Tagore

Brutal (and masterful) Anatol Lieven on the follies and fallacies that ensured the current fiasco in Afghanistan (with a well deserved shoutout for Mike Martin MP) prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/nemesis-…

📢 "They have failed us utterly!" - John Vidal on conservation and the media. #OurLandOurNature #DecolonizeConservation youtu.be/LLs48EqotFM

Something about ink, poisonous prawns and mushrooms slices. Sounds like someone did this bit of military strategising away from the armchair and in the kitchen! 🤷🏾‍♂️

This is wonderful, sobering writing!!

Terribly sad news. He was mesmerising!

These photos of a new Amazon warehouse in Tijuana, Mexico have been going viral as the "This is capitalism" picture of the year. But there's a lot more going on here than the picture can tell you. Let's trace the Amazon supply chain! A thread:👇 1/

This is an incredibly informative thread. I’m pretty sure almost everyone will be ‘better’ at the end of it then they were at the beginning.

Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Europe's largest economy, will always remain a great example of leadership, driven by values, selfless principles, facts and empathy. Angela is truly a role model, if only more leaders are like her! Source : lnkd.in/egEJu3zn

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