Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Afghanistan. Show all posts

Thursday, February 28, 2008

The cost of a war

Joseph Stiglitz - former chief economist at the world bank has co-written a book in which he attempts to measure the cost of the war on terror and the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. There's a good article about it in the Guardian today.

Matt Buck’s animated drawings

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Channel 4 News-animated political cartoon-The great game of Pakistan

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If you read history you'll discover that many of the problems in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the NW borders of British imperial India, are old. The arguments about who holds the power in the relatively new nation of Pakistan, are connected to them and the partition of India after WW2. Published above and here.
UPDATED: 16th November 2007. There's a useful interactive timeline outlining what is going on inside Pakistan here

Matt Buck’s animated drawings