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Bring In the Peacekeepers?
Jan 7, 2009 Can it be that yet another Israeli failure in Gaza will change the dynamics of "peacekeeping" in the Middle East, that at last the ghost of Arafat will watch the "internationalisation" of the Israeli-Palestinian war?
Leaders Lie, Civilians Die, and Lessons of History Are Ignored
Dec 29, 2008 We've got so used to the carnage of the Middle East that we don't care anymore -- providing we don't offend the Israelis.
Who Believes There Is ‘Progress’ in the Middle East?
Dec 29, 2008 If reporting is, as I suspect, a record of mankind's folly, then the end of 2008 is proving my point.
One Missing Word Sowed the Seeds of Catastrophe
Dec 20, 2008 No one in 1967 dreamed that the Israeli-Arab conflict would still be in ferocious progress 41 years later, but the wording in United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 has something to do with this ongoing clash.
Afghanistan in Crisis
Nov 30, 2008 The collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands -- all but a square mile at the centre of the city --and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul.
Making Movies the Afghan Way
Nov 24, 2008 Incredibly, as Afghanistan sinks back into the anarchy which became its natural state these past 29 years, Afghan film-makers are producing movies of international quality, turning out pictures which prove -- even amid war -- that a country's tragedy can be imaginatively recreated for its people.
No End to the Savagery in Afghanistan
Nov 16, 2008 Back in Afghanistan, the mind turns to the small matter of savagery. Not the routine cruelty of war, but the deliberate inhumanity with which we behave.
Paying for Eight Years of Bush’s Delusions
Nov 9, 2008 How is Barack Obama going to repair the titanic damage which his vicious, lying predecessor has perpetrated around the globe and within the U.S. itself?
Six Held at Guantanamo After Plot Claim Is Dropped
Nov 2, 2008 In the dying days of the Bush administration, yet another presidential claim in the "war on terror" has been proved false by the withdrawal of the main charge against six Algerians held without trial for nearly seven years at Guantanamo prison camp.
Ancient Words Our Leaders Should Heed
Oct 19, 2008 Let us now praise famous men. And after yet another U.S. presidential candidates' debate of awesome sterility I'm referring principally to one of the first journalists to understand war and, so far as he could, to check his sources: Thucydides.