Kathygannon
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I am a journalist who has covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for more than 35 years, while also dipping into Central Asia, Iraq, Yemen, Iran and Lebanon during the 2006 war. I authored I is for Infidel. For more pls see www.kathy-gannon.com
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The American Dream, Always an Illusion, Is Now A Nightmare for Much of the World
Did you know that the United States interfered in 81 elections globally between 1946 and 2000? The USSR and Russia interfered in 36 over the same time period, so says author, researcher, Dov Levin.
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Trump’s U.N. threat to Annihilate Iran Causes Barely a Ripple; That Should Frighten Us All
Instead of condemnation world leaders said nothing, while others sought to diminish his threat of annihilation __ a war crime __ as mere “war talk”
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Since the start of the latest outbreak of fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, analysts have been asking when this agreement kicks in, but who is to say it hasn’t. kathygannon.substack.com/p/makkah-joi...
Makkah Joint Defense Agreement: Has Pakistan Quietly Activated Pact?
Since the start of the latest outbreak of fighting between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis, analysts have been asking when this agreement kicks in, but who is to say it hasn’t.
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25 Year Anniversary of 9/11: An American Catastrophe that Set the World on Fire
I was in Kabul on 9/11. The view was very different. My friend and colleague, Amir Shah predicted: “Afghanistan is going to burn”. I predicted: “The world is going to burn.” We were both right.
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Cruelty defines the treatment of Afghan refugees, whether by countries who helped them flee Afghanistan after the Taliban’s return in 2021 or by Pakistan, where many have lived for decades substack.com/@kathygannon...
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Islamophobia spewed by Trump loyalist should shame America and frighten us all, writes @kathygannon.bsky.social
The Islamaphobia Spewed By Trump Loyalist Should Shame America And Frighten Us All
What is also frightening is that posts like Laura Loomer's is not a surprise and that speaks volumes about today's America
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The level of hateful Islamophobic rhetoric by American leaders is frightening. Particularly frightening is the freedom with which they can spew such hatred without censure or sanction. open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
The Islamaphobia Spewed By Trump Loyalist Should Shame America And Frighten Us All
What is also frightening is that posts like Laura Loomer's is not a surprise and that speaks volumes about today's America
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After failure of US-Iran talks, where has Pakistan been left, asks @kathygannon.bsky.social kathygannon.substack.com/p/they-came-...
Israel is on an impunity fuelled rampage, argues @kathygannon.bsky.social Image: Naaman Omar. Via @wikicommons.bsky.social kathygannon.substack.com/p/israel-is-...
Israel is on an Impunity Fueled Rampage
Israel as a state in the comity of nations has been allowed to carry out a genocide in Gaza, steal land from Lebanon, drive over 1 million Lebanese from their homes, and more, all with impunity
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After years reporting across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and the wider region, I finally wrote a little about why I started this Substack and what I hope to do here. Thank you to everyone already reading and subscribing. open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
Reporting From the Fault Lines
Why I Started This Substack
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The U.S. can’t run far enough away from Afghanistan open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
U.S. Running, Not Walking, Away from Afghanistan
The U.S. doesn't want to return to Afghanistan even as many others have while NOT recognizing the Taliban govt. So they moved to costly, comfy Doha. Seems now even Peshawar on the border is too close.
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Hosting Iran talks not without peril and cost for Pakistan open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
Possible Perils for Pakistan as Hosts of Iran Talks
It can’t be understated the dangers Pakistan faces by hosting the Iran war negotiations.
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Hosting Iran talks not without peril and cost for Pakistan open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
Possible Perils for Pakistan as Hosts of Iran Talks
It can’t be understated the dangers Pakistan faces by hosting the Iran war negotiations.
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As I said earlier Pakistan as the mediator kinda made sense It took awhile and it’s a temporary cease fire but it seems the art of the deal has moved to Islamabad kathygannon.substack.com/p/pakistan-n...
Pakistan Negotiating An End to Iran War? Kind of Makes Sense
America has never met a Pakistani General it didn't like or worked with whether Gen Zia during the 1980s Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or Gen Musharraf after the 9/11 attacks on America
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Somebody Tell Israel Journalism Is Not a Crime; Somebody Tell Israel To Stop Killing Journalists
Israel kills another three journalists this time in Lebanon. The world watches silently. Our colleagues are targeted and we muffle our condemnation. I know of what I speak: STOP KILLING JOURNALISTS.
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As Pakistan says its in 'open war' with Afghan, repression of its own journalists increasing, reports @kathygannon.bsky.social kathygannon.substack.com/p/muzzling-o...
Muzzling of Media in Pakistan Knows No Bounds Or So It Seems
The newest press freedom index put out by Reporters without Borders puts Pakistan at the unenviable position of 158 out of 180 countries surveyed, sandwiched between Bahrain and Turkiya
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Our world has much to worry about with a global leadership today defined by male toxicity combined with mediocre intelligence . open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
Europe/NATO Paying the Price for their Sycophancy
Greenland lesson to NATO/U.S. Allies: Sycophancy empowers a bully, weakens the sycophant, like NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, whose “Daddy” now attacks his own children.
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Our world has much to worry about with a global leadership today defined by male toxicity combined with mediocre intelligence . Sadly for me there isn’t a combined intelligence in today’s leadership sufficient to understand the need for new narratives, let alone think of them.
Curious why U.S. tennis players in the Australian open are allowed to play under their flag despite taking over one country and threatening another? Yet Russians are denied playing under their flag, Double standards have become so acceptable and normalised that we have even stopped questioning it.
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The reopening of US and Western embassies in Afghanistan can empower Afghans. This isn’t about wanting foreign intervention again. Absolutely not. Rather it is about helping Afghans feel connected to the broader world. Hope can be a powerful catalyst for change. open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
UN Report Shows Militants Holding Firm In Afghanistan; Time to Rethink Isolation Strategy
America and its NATO allies evacuated tens of thousands of educated and trained women and men and to the rest of Afghanistan’s 42 million people it was “goodbye, good luck, we’re moving to Doha".
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Remembering our Indigenous children taken away and forced into the horrors of residential schools youtu.be/IL_DBNkkcSE
Archie Roach - Took The Children Away (Official Music Video)
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Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.
The crime of one Afghan has been used to paint all Afghans with the same brush, to see all Afghans through the prism of a shooter, who shares their nationality. Imagine if that same practice of painting everyone with the same brush was applied to Americans. open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
DC Shooting Speaks More To A Shoddy Evacuation and U.S. Gun Culture, than Afghans or Afghanistan
The shooting in America of two National Guards by an Afghan suspect has generated the usual knee jerk U.S.
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My personal Substack. Click to read Kathy Gannon's Substack, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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The latest fighting between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been fierce, but it's not new and unlikely to end until the disputed Durand Line, which separates the two nations, is replaced by an internationally recognized border. The same is true of Pakistan and India. open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
Region Beset with Border Battles; "Lines" not Borders Feed the War Machine in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
As fighting escalates between Pakistan and Afghanistan a cacophony of militant groups on both sides of the border are gaining space.
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Returning to Afghanistan presents countless opportunities to support Afghan women, but not if these countries, as it was the case with India at the press conference in Delhi, deprioritize women’s rights. open.substack.com/pub/kathygan...
India what were you thinking allowing women journalists to be excluded from a press conference with Afghanistan's Foreign Minister?
Neither silence nor isolation has done anything to aid Afghan women.
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Please join the 11th Annual James Foley Freedom Run #IRunForJim and the #FoleyFamily including Diane/John and Martha who have become like family to me and my Son. @foleydi @reflextv.bsky.social @markmackinnon.bsky.social @kathygannon.bsky.social secure.qgiv.com/event/2025ja...
