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.
The arrest and interrogation of Damian Green, one of Britain’s leading opposition politicians, by the counter-terrorism police (November 27, 2008) on ‘suspicion…
In the weeks until his inauguration on January 20, 2009, Barack Obama will be focusing on the most immediate tasks of assembling…
"The seed of revolution is repression." – Woodrow Wilson, 28th US President With the victory of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential…
After war comes peace. With peace must come justice, or it will be meaningless. It is one of the most enduring lessons…
The 9/11 attacks on America and the subsequent ‘war on terror’ prosecuted by President George W. Bush have brought the debate on…
The audacity of recent attacks by the Taleban and their Al-Qaeda allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan has caused alarm in the region…
October the 7th was a day of high drama and panic on both sides of the Atlantic. The New York Stock Exchange…
The recent case of Dr Aafia Siddiqi (starting in August 2008) in a New York court has brought another disturbing episode in…
In a period of unprecedented financial upheaval, the recent surge in violence in South Asia is perhaps receiving less notice in the…
OpEdNews, September 2008 "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power," said…
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