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Brendan O’Neill
Let’s veto the West’s moral posturing on Syria
There is more logic to Russia’s and China’s veto of the UN resolution condemning Assad than there is to William Hague’s sixth-former antics.
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| Thursday 12 January 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Treating Libya like a troublesome child
Who gave Amnesty International and other human rights groups the authority to boss about the new Libyan government?
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| Tuesday 3 January 2012 |
Tim Black
The Syrian uprising: it isn’t all about us
The vanity of those calling for the West to intervene is matched only by the navel-gazing of those who claim to be opposed to intervention.
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| Thursday 15 December 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Benghazi: the battle for democracy resumes
The protests against the transitional government in Libya show the West can’t just hand down democracy from afar.
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| Thursday 24 November 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Three cheers for the second Egyptian uprising
Those confused by the return of the masses in Cairo have failed to learn a key lesson of history: democratic protesters are not easily placated.
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| Wednesday 23 November 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Legal justice: too fine a pursuit for Libyans
The International Criminal Court’s insistence on controlling the trial of Saif Gaddafi reeks of neo-colonialism.
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| Wednesday 16 November 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
Putting the Syrian Spring on ice
From EU sanctions to Arab League posturing, external meddling in Syria is weakening the democratic uprising.
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| Monday 24 October 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
The leeches and legalists squabbling over Gaddafi
Neither Western leaders trying to wring moral mileage out of Gaddafi's death, nor UN officials denouncing it as illegal, deserve our backing.
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| Wednesday 31 August 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Libya and the shameless rewriting of history
The repackaging of NATO’s reckless intervention as a clever war for liberty would make Orwell’s Ministry of Truth beam with pride.
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| Thursday 25 August 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
It’s a civil war, Jim, but not as we know it
The rebel forces in Libya have not so much won Tripoli as they have tiptoed into a vacuum left by the disintegration of the Gaddafi regime.
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| Thursday 11 August 2011 |
Dennis Hayes
Speaking freely in the Middle East
The Doha Debates suggest that people in the Arab world could teach Westerners a thing or two about freedom of speech.
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| Monday 8 August 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Syria and the hole at the heart of the Arab revolts
Events in Syria suggest that nobody has the authority to resolve the Arab crisis – not the US, not the regimes, and sadly not the rebels either.
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| Thursday 4 August 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Mubarak is gone, but Mubarakans still rule
The public humiliation of the former president is an attempt to show the New Egypt as free and over its past. But it isn’t.
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| Thursday 28 July 2011 |
Tim Black
Libya: palace intrigue replaces people power
Recent events confirm that NATO’s numpty-led war has led to the colossal disempowerment of the Libyan people.
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| Wednesday 15 June 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Why so many hacks fell for the ‘gay girl in Syria’
Fake blogger Tom MacMaster is not the only person who has magicked up an identity by morally leeching off other people’s conflicts.
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| Monday 6 June 2011 |
Tim Black
Trying to rein in the Arab Spring
Saudi Arabia’s physical and financial war on the uprisings reveals the shakiness of the House of Saud and the impotence of American power.
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| Wednesday 20 April 2011 |
Mick Hume
The strange death of the NATO alliance
Why is the West’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation squabbling over who should bomb north Africa, 20 years after the Cold War ended?
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| Tuesday 19 April 2011 |
Tim Black
After the Day of Rage, the months of repression
The leader of the Bahrain Freedom Movement tells spiked that the situation in his country is grim. But is Western intervention the solution?
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| Tuesday 19 April 2011 |
David Chandler
There’s nothing ‘good’ about the war in Libya
An international relations expert says there’s no going back to the so-called ‘good interventions’ of the 1990s.
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| Thursday 14 April 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Attack on Libya: a war led by no one
As the various bombers of Libya disavow responsibility for the overall military mission, there’s no telling how this will end.
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