Introduction

Dig listeners can join 50 thousand jacobin subscribers developing socialist political thought in debate, for just 15 dollars a year. This episode is my interview with tarik ali on the long history of afghanistan. We also inevitably cover a ton of pakistan history, including the long history and brutal violence visited upon them by their military,. the us, drone war and militant islamists. Ok, finally, audio of this interview is totally fine but not entirely up to my typical standard so it goes with pot casting. So here's taricali, a long standing member of the editorial committee of eft review who has written more than two dozen books on world politics as well as fundamental