Episode 117: It’s known as “The Graveyard of Empires,” and its history certainly lives up to the nickname— as news about Afghanistan is plastered across television screens throughout America, let’s take a look at the history of the country so many know so little about. Part 1 of 2.
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The Other Afghan Women: Link
The Kill Team Photos: Link
The CIA’s Afghan Death Squads: Link
US Marine sniper unit photographed with 'Nazi SS' flag: Link
The Taliban Peace Deal Might Have Been Had Many Years and Thousands of Lives Ago: Link
Remembering the Saur Revolution: Link
The Taliban indoctrinates kids with jihadist textbooks paid for by the U.S.: Link
Bush rejects Taliban offer to hand Bin Laden over: Link
Geopolitics, profit, and poppies: how the CIA turned Afghanistan into a failed narco-state: Link
Life of the Amir Dost Mohammad Khan of Kabul: Link
“If She Escapes She Will Publish Everything”: Lady Sale and the Media Frenzy of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842): Link
The Saur Revolution and After: Link
The Causes of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, a Probe into the Reality of the International Relations in Central Asia in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Link
Government and Society in Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir ‘Abd Al-Rahman Khan: Link
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