New York- After the past three years of my life were largely wasted in terms of career, I’m finally taking the plunge back into the wider world. Since 9/11 until March 2020, I had made a name for myself, not…
I’ve Launched a Youtube Channel for 2023
Pakistan’s One-Man Noah’s Ark in Troubled Waters
New York-I appeared on a Twitter Spaces panel by The Redline Podcast‘s Francis Leach and Michael Hilliard about the current state of prime ministerial politics in flood-embattled Pakistan.I spoke alongside Michael Kugelman, Sahar Kkan, and Fereeha M Idrees. Khan was…
A Bombastic Recluse
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…
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…