Category: Foreign Policy

A masterpiece of miscalculation

The day a Cockburn set the White House aflame By Patrick Cockburn, Sunday 02 September 2012   As a correspondent in Washington 20 years ago, I received occasional calls from local television stations on the anniversary of the burning of the White House by a British force in August 1814. The reason they wanted a …

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Moral superiority is often asserted

William Hague is wrong… we must own up to our brutal colonial past By Owen Jones, Monday 03 September 2012   Remember all that national soul-searching and self-flagellation over Empire and all the horrors committed in its name? No, me neither. But this is the fictional Britain that has been conjured up by our Foreign …

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What should we teach our children?

Why I had no choice but to spurn Tony Blair By Desmond Tutu, Saturday 1 September 2012   The immorality of the United States and Great Britain’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003, premised on the lie that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, has destabilised and polarised the world to a greater extent than …

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Not everything bounces back

Last edited by Monsieur d’Nalgar on September 9, 2012 at 4:18 pm.   1965 was an interesting year. The first American combat troops were sent to South Vietnam, Dylan went electric, Muhammad Ali knocked out Sonny Liston, MLK marched from Selma to Montgomery, and the first Charlie Brown Christmas aired on CBS. And by the …

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Keeping clean is a dirty business

The Syrian army would like to appear squeaky clean. It isn’t By Robert Fisk, Monday 27 August 2012   Every day, a new massacre is reported in Syria. Yesterday, it was Daraya. Slaughter by Syrian troops, according to those opposed to Bashar al-Assad. Slaughter by Bashar’s “terrorist” opponents, the Syrian army said, producing the wife …

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Dangerous rightwing ideologies

The importance of the Anders Breivik verdict reaches beyond Norway By Tad Tietze, Friday 24 August 2012 15.00 EDT   There are many reasons to welcome the verdict in the trial of Anders Behring Breivik: that he is sane and legally responsible for the murder of 77 people – mostly members of the Norwegian Labour …

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An ethos that will continue

A good Jew hates Arabs By Zvi Bar’el, Aug.22, 2012 3:18 AM   The young criminals who mercilessly beat Jamal Julani and his cousins simply because they’re Arabs don’t live in settlements, haven’t occupied any cities and haven’t taken control of any terraced hills in the territories. Perhaps they participated in one of those tours …

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