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Press TV program broadcast on May 28, 2012 with Gordon Duff (Veterans Today), Michael Maloof (security analyst) and Deepak Tripathi (writer).
Deepak Tripathi
Deepak Tripathi is a writer. Before 2000, he spent 23 years with the BBC as a commentator, editor and correspondent. He set up the BBC office in Afghanistan and was the first resident correspondent in Kabul in the early 1990s. Particularly interested in US policy and great power rivalries. His latest books are Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan (Potomac Books, 2010) and Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism (also Potomac Books, 2010).
His articles have appeared in international publications such as The Economist and The Daily Telegraph of London and he contributes to ZNet, AlterNet, CounterPunch, George Mason University's History News Network, Online Journal and the Palestine Chronicle.
CounterPunch, 5 June 2012; Palestine Chronicle, June 4, 2012 The day of judgment for Hosni Mubarak arrived on June 2. The 84-year-old deposed…
International Policy Digest First the video of United States Marines urinating on bodies of Afghans who had been killed. Then the revelation…
CounterPunch The explosion of national anger in Afghanistan after the revelation that U.S. soldiers dumped and burned copies of the Quran in…
CounterPunch The bombing of an Israeli embassy car in Delhi threatens India's diplomatic maneuvers between Israel and Iran, and has put India's…
The conflict in Syria continues to take lives on both sides in what increasingly looks like a civil war. The bloodshed in Homs has…
Mondoweiss The brinkmanship between the West and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program has escalated one more step in the last week. First…
Journal of Foreign Relations The Wall Street Journal recently carried a speculative article by Ian Tally suggesting a link between the International Monetary Fund’s…
Mondoweiss An old colleague who was a distinguished Africa expert used to say, 'When the mainstream media focus on one half of…
Popular uprisings that began with peaceful protests in Tunisia and Algeria nearly a year ago, and spread across the Arab world, have…