Archive: Afghanistan Did the US go to war for oil? Yes and No, Eric Margolis From the archive (2001): Eric Margolis on oil and the Afghan war — the questions independent columnists asked from the start, preserved as part of the record.
Archive: Iraq The Massacre at Qala-i-Jangi - Guardian UK From the archive (2001): the Guardian’s Qala-i-Jangi investigation — atrocity reporting as institutional capability, preserved since publication.
Identity: Islamophobia Bush is beaten at his own game From the archive (2001): a polemic on ‘greatness’ as practised in 2001 — kept as a register of the moment, with the sober answer worked out since.
Archive: War on Terror U.S. COMMANDOS WOUNDED, REPORT SAYS From the archive (2001): casualties acknowledged weeks late — a small case study in wartime information management, and in reading official communication critically.
Archive: Afghanistan Usama bin Laden's statement on Nov. 3, 2001 From the archive (2001): a primary-source translation published so readers could judge the words themselves — archival practice before it was standard.
Archive: Pakistan Open letter to the President of Pakistan From the archive (2001): an open letter to Pakistan’s president — the case for permanent state capability to shape international opinion, not just comply with it.
Archive: War on Terror Venezuela President Chavez against US attack and US Bullying From the archive (2001): Venezuela’s early non-aligned stance — endorsing the fight against terror while criticising its conduct, and what that position costs.
Archive: Iraq Can we allow the West to define Islam? From the archive (2001): who gets to define Islam? The question has sharpened — the definers now include AI systems, and the answer is institutional presence.
Archive: Pakistan Dollars for Muslim lives From the archive (2001): on aid offered to Pakistan at the start of the Afghan war — the permanent question of what assistance costs, and the case for economic self-reliance.
Archive: War on Terror Chinese version of The Fall of the New Romans From the archive (2001): a reader’s proposal for a Chinese edition of ‘The Fall of the New Romans’ — a small record of how ideas travel when communities publish for themselves.
Identity: Islamophobia Questions that beg answers From the archive (2001): the questions of the weeks after 9/11, kept unedited — the discipline of public questioning, worth keeping and teaching.
Theology: Comparative Religion Terrorism since 1492 From the archive (2001): a crowd-sourced ledger of state terror since 1492 — the urge to widen the lens, whose serious form is the discipline of history.
Archive: Afghanistan AlJazeera - US planes attack civilians and fleeing refugees From the archive (2001): translated AlJazeera reporting on air strikes and fleeing refugees — real-time documentation from a translation series this site ran during the Afghan war.
Archive: Afghanistan AlJazeera - UN confirms hospital casualties - 93 more casualties From the archive (2001): translated AlJazeera reporting on civilian casualties in Afghanistan — part of an early translation series documenting what larger outlets did not.
Archive: Pakistan Mr Musharaf's Interview From the archive (2001): reading a Musharraf interview between the lines — close real-time analysis of official language, a skill worth teaching at scale.
Archive: Pakistan AlJazeera: Pakistan keeps borders closed to thousands From the archive (2001): a translated AlJazeera dispatch on Afghan refugees at the Pakistani border — early citizen translation filling a reporting gap, years before social media.
Archive: Afghanistan As feared, U.S. attacks on Afghanistan appear to become more aimless From the archive (2001): a real-time assessment that the Afghan campaign was drifting — outside-the-consensus analysis written while events were still deniable.
Self-Reliance: Economics Friends and Foes? new relationship between US and China From the archive (2001): an original QeRN essay on US–China relations, written as 9/11 redirected the world’s attention — the trajectory read before it was obvious.
Archive: Afghanistan Taliban Leader Omar and his fight with the U.S. From the archive (2001): a profile of Mullah Omar when coverage looked only at bin Laden — primary-source curiosity over received framing.
Archive: Afghanistan Geologist asked by U.S. to guess location of bin Ladin from video From the archive (2001): a geologist asked to place bin Laden from video terrain — open-source intelligence before the term existed, and a note on analytical capability as power.
Archive: Afghanistan Spare Afghanistan from U.S. ''Nation-building'' From the archive (2001): against imposed nation-building in Afghanistan, written before the project began — institutions are grown from within, not installed.
Archive: Afghanistan A vacation in Afghanistan ....! From the archive (2001): a mock travel brochure for wartime Kabul — dark satire as the processing of the unprocessable, preserved as an artefact.
Archive: Afghanistan the 9/11 Retaliation: the Corporate War: From the archive (2001): a real-time response to the first days of the Afghanistan war and the language used to report it — an early case study in narrative power and who holds it.
Archive: Afghanistan Law Professor: Say what you want, but this war is illegal From the archive (2001): law professor Michael Mandel’s case that the Afghan war was illegal — the legality question raised precisely, from the first weeks.
Archive: Palestine Fallout of Belligerent Policy - China singles out Muslims for From the archive (2001): Chinese travel restrictions on Muslim-country nationals after 9/11 — an early data point in how fast policy turns, and why owned institutions are the hedge.
