Afghanistan's story, backwards or sideways, is not confined to the Americans or the English. Terry Glavin afghanistanamericanbackwards Change image and share on social
At the October 1933 proceedings of the League of Nations in Madrid, Lemkin mounted a valiant effort to persuade the gathered ambassadors to define and agree to punish the crime of what we now call genocide. He failed. Terry Glavin agreeambassadorcall share on social
Back in 2010, it didn't matter when it was only Cuban democrats, Zimbabwean dissidents, Afghan reformists and Russian bloggers whose lives and liberty were put at risk by Wikileaks' wilfully negligent data dumps. Terry Glavin afghanbackblogger share on social
It should tell you something that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency invented the Taliban in the early 1990s only because Hekmatyar, its primary U.S.-bankrolled proxy in the war for control of Afghanistan, had proved too bloodthirsty after the Soviets withdrew, even by the low standards of the ISI's ghastly generals in Rawalpindi. Terry Glavin 1990safghanistanagency share on social
Under Xi, China has again become the world's top jailer of journalists. China's rank on the Reporters Without Borders index of press freedom is 176th out of 180 countries. China comes in dead last on the Freedom House 'Freedom on the Net' list. Terry Glavin 176thborderchina share on social
The CUAG specializes in providing support to Chinese human rights lawyers. Terry Glavin chinesecuaghuman Change image and share on social
Roughly nine of every 10 Syrian war dead since 2011 are on the butcher's bill accumulated by Assad and his friends in Iran's Quds Force, the Iran-allied Hezbollah, and the Russian air force. Terry Glavin accumulateairally Change image and share on social
The overwhelming majority of Afghans are not tribal, and they're not Pashtun. Terry Glavin afghanmajorityoverwhelm Change image and share on social
It is an intellectual and moral vacuity that has crippled what the World Social Forum's founders sincerely hoped would produce some sort of democratic alternative to what they saw as the heartless corporate model of globalization. Terry Glavin alternativecorporatecripple share on social
About 3,500 years ago, when a patriarch called Moses was supposed to be leading a tribe of Seth's descendants out of the deserts of the Sinai Peninsula, another tribe of shepherds and pastoralists had already established a small kingdom for itself at Balkh. Terry Glavin agobalkhcall share on social