dney and Our Responsibility

Today’s massacre in Sydney showed that we are still living in the era of September 11. An era that, as the opening of a new century and millennium, began a quarter-century ago with the attack on the World Trade Center towers. Kabul 24: Americans called it the global war on.

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About the film Sentimental Value

 watched the film Sentimental Value and, after a long time, I once again tasted the pleasure of seeing a truly great and truly artistic film. The film begins with a house and ends with a house. Kabul 24: “The house” is the main character of Sentimental Value: a beautiful, living,.

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The New US National Security Strategy, in Simple Terms

In Washington, every few years, they pull out a little instruction booklet and call it the “National Security Strategy”—that’s their official term for the document. In short, it’s how America wants to see the world, who it wants to fight, who it wants to ally with, and where to slam.

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Are we facing a silent epidemic?

I used to think that the most common health problem among women in Kabul was iron deficiency and the anemia caused by it, but my clinical experience over the past year has changed that perception. Kabul 24: Because almost every female patient for whom I ordered a vitamin D level.

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On the Psyche, Mental Disorders, Psychiatry, Comte, Foucault, and the Film Dark Nuns

On the Psyche, Mental Disorders, Psychiatry, Comte, Foucault, and the Film Dark NunsIs modern psychiatry a singular, unrivaled grand narrative, or — as Lyotard argues in The Postmodern Condition — should it be regarded merely as one petit récit among many parallel narratives? Kabul 24: The human psyche has been.

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America’s Diplomatic City in the Heart of Kurdistan

Today, American officials joined Kurdish leaders in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, to inaugurate the largest U.S. consulate in the world. The visible joy of the Kurdish leaders was most vividly reflected in the words of Masrour Barzani. Kabul 24: He said: “This massive twenty-hectare complex is like.

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Wittgenstein and a Tale from Rūmī’s Mathnawī: War over the Disagreement of Names

The later Wittgenstein said that the task of philosophy is to untie linguistic knots. Kabul 24: In his view, many of the things we call “problems” do not arise from the nature of the world, but from the misuse or ambiguity of words.Wittgenstein distinguished between real problems, which concern the.

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Migration from the Third World as Crossing a Sacred Border and Experiencing Sin

In On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche seeks to show that what we call “conscience” is not a heavenly, self-evident gift, but a historical product forged through violence and the suppression of instincts. Kabul 24: Instead of asking “What is conscience?”, he asks “How was conscience made, and what is.

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Who is Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Former U.S. Forces Interpreter in Kandahar?

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, with an urgent and official statement following Rahmanullah Lakanwal’s attack on two U.S. National Guardsmen, that it is immediately suspending the review of all asylum applications, humanitarian visas, temporary protected status adjustments, and any immigration-related cases involving.

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Idiots and the Colonization of the Public Sphere

Umberto Eco warned that social media has turned the public sphere into a place where “a legion of idiots” speak with the same confidence and equal rights as Nobel Prize winners. Kabul 24: A space in which the boundary between knowledge and ignorance collapses, and the weight of discourse is.

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The third Thursday of November each year: World Philosophy Day

A quote attributed to Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, says: Kabul 24: “When we strive to earn one million dollars, the truly valuable thing we gain is not the million dollars itself, but the character that is built and nurtured within us along the way.” I have always applied.

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Ronaldo and Bin Salman with Musk and Trump!

The image of Ronaldo, Trump, Musk, and Bin Salman side by side is a vivid illustration and symbol of politics in 2025. The powerful men of our era: the world’s most famous footballer and a young reformist autocrat perched atop a sea of oil, feasting alongside the leader of the.

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