Two decades on, the unending conflict This weekend marked the 20th anniversary of the grim terror attacks on the United States of America ...
Two decades on, the unending conflict
This weekend marked the 20th anniversary of the grim terror attacks on the United States of America – and the country’s subsequent “war on terror” .
As US President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of his forces from Afghanistan by the end of August, the Taliban dramatically took charge of the country. Said Biden: “I was not going to extend this forever war.”
But that may be easier said than done, argues Mark Lander in The New York Times. “Twenty years after the terrorist attacks of September 2001, the so-called war on terror shows no sign of winding down,” he writes. “It waxes and wanes, largely in the shadows and out of the headlines – less an epochal clash than a low-grade condition, one that flares up occasionally…”
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The chequered history of India’s surveillance regime
The Pegasus snooping controversy nearly washed out the monsoon season of the Parliament, but there are still more questions than answers.
In a deep-dive published in The Morning Context, Omar Khandekar points out why we may never know the truth because the Central government is “judge, jury and executioner for all surveillance”. He also provides a rich historical account of the Indian government’s surveillance regime, how it has changed over the years...
