New York- The 2nd half of the Noiser Podcasts production on the life, obscurantist rule, and death of President Saparmurat Niyazov is out this week. As I stated in my previous post since I didn’t shoot a single photo during…
A Bombastic Recluse
Turning Up In Türkmenistan
New York-Some twenty years ago I wound up in one of our world’s most hermetically-sealed nation-states, Saparmurat Niyazov’s Türkmenistan. It was a place I never intended to visit nor was it part of a global bucket list to visit every…
America’s Targeted Assassinations and the Destruction of History
below is a piece I wrote for Asia Times Online 10 years ago tomorrow in the wake of then President Barack Obama’s assassination by drone of ‘Sheikh’ Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-born Sunni cleric-cum-online firebrand who was killed in Yemen…
The Fall of Afghanistan
New York- It has been painful to watch the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan after an utterly disastrous troop pullout at a feckless President Joe Biden’s behest. After nearly 20 years at war in the country, the United States and its…
To the Bitter End, a Chaotic New Beginning
New York- In the final part of the Gaddafi story by Noiser Podcasts, the colonel meets his ignominious end just outside Sirte during the fever pitch of the so-called Arab Spring in October 2011. A decade on, it’s hard not…
Coming in from the Cold, Dark Past in Tow
New York- I appear in this week’s episode of Real Dictators by Noiser Podcasts and hosted by Paul McGann about the latter period of Colonel Gaddafi’s rule. Here he rather pragmatically relinquishes his once cherished pariah status on the world…
