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This journalist embedded himself with the Taliban.
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Feature: The Taliban’s War on Opium Could Have Disastrous Effects
Niko Vorobyov
Last April, Afghanistan’s new government announced a ban on poppy cultivation. With the country supplying 86% of the world’s opium, it's likely to push addicts towards stronger and more dangerous highs. Niko Vorobyov reports.
Novara Live: Tories Bully People Back to the Office
In a bid to get Britons back into the office, cabinet ministers have alleged that civil servants working remotely hindered the fight against the Taliban. What will be next in the Tory war on working from home?
Analysis: Western Elites Aren’t Mourning the Loss of Afghan Life, but of Their Own Power
David Wearing
The west has suffered another humiliating defeat in the bogus “war on terror”, writes David Wearing, and the warmongers aren’t taking it well.
Opinion: Afghan Women Are Doing What They’ve Always Done: Resist
Rawi, Madina Wardak, Sonita Alizada
Throughout Afghanistan's history of foreign occupation and fundamentalist rule, one thing has been constant: women’s resistance. Sophie K Rosa spoke to three Afghan feminists about their fight for liberation.
Novara Live: Afghanistan on Brink of Taliban Takeover
As numerous cities fall to the Taliban, why has the US-backed Afghan government been so quick to crumble? We speak to Gulwali Passarlay and Anatol Lieven.
Novara Live: Biden Announces Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Joe Biden has announced all US troops will leave Afghanistan by September. After 20 years of war, in what state do the US and their British allies leave the country and its people?
Refugees in Indonesia and Iraq Condemn Western Indifference
Matt Broomfield
Coverage of the 'refugee crisis' tends to focus on the West, particularly on Europe, but none of the seven countries worldwide to host over half a million refugees are in the EU or North America. Instead, most refugees live on the periphery, confined to squalid, brutal detention centres and stripped of even the scant protection afforded to asylum-seekers on European shores.