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Published on May 17, 2022 3:30:06 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNN7nT1ZqOU

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Tariq Ali sheds light on the reality of Afghanistan throughout the US occupation and today.

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Rarely has there been such an enthusiastic display of international unity as that which greeted the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Compared to Iraq, Afghanistan became the 'good war.' But today, with the collapse of the puppet regime in Kabul, what does the future hold for a traumatised Afghan people? Legendary activist Tariq Ali provides his answer to this burning question.

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Tariq Ali is a famed political activist, writer, journalist, historian, filmmaker, and public intellectual. His latest book 'The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold' explores the history and present of the war in Afghanistan.

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