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.
You’ve worked in Afghanistan and Pakistan as a BBC correspondent. How does the Afghanistan of today compare to the pre-civil war Afghanistan…
The life of an American turkey is more precious than the lives of innocent humans elsewhere.
Never underestimate the cost of humiliation. For in war victory is never clean, because it empowers the vanquished, or their successors, to…
The moment when President Obama emerged at the White House to speak to the press (November 4), less than twenty-four hours after…
Deepak Tripathi's lecture at the Centre for Research on Nationality, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism, University of Surrey, the United Kingdom, on October 4,…
After Afghanistan, now the Wikileaks Iraq war diary shows: • US authorities failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse, torture, rape and even…
President Barack Obama’s forthcoming visit to India in November comes amid a noticeable increase in tensions in US-Pakistan relations and a favorable…
US-led forces in Afghanistan launched another air attack inside Pakistani territory today, September 30th. The Obama administration’s usual explanation is that these…
Analysis of the Petraeus tactics to come: use overwhelming military force and try to buy Pashtun tribesmen away from the Taliban, like…
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