Hugh Barnes
Editor of Green Socialist Magazine; Author
Biden’s Debacle in Afghanistan: the ‘Graveyard of Empires’ Strikes Again
President Biden has blamed Afghan leaders and soldiers who ‘gave up and fled’, but the lasting blame for the tragedy of Afghanistan rests, as always, with foreign powers.
Horseback to the Future: The West’s Long Ride to Defeat in Afghanistan
Twenty years ago, I rode a horse over the Hindu Kush to Kabul to see the fall of the Taliban. I was part of an invading army of journalists there to cover America’s ‘war on terror’.