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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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| Tuesday 5 April 2011 |
Mick Hume
The other Libyan war looks like a stalemate, too
None of the international players competing for influence in this crisis has the will to run an air war, never mind re-colonise Libya.
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| Thursday 31 March 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Yes, this is a humanitarian war — that is what makes it so deadly
No more terrible fate can befall nations like Libya than to become objects of Western liberal pity.
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| Wednesday 30 March 2011 |
Sean Collins
Libya: moral blackmail trumps political debate
In his address to the nation, Obama cynically elevated the moral imperative over 'nasty' political criticisms.
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| Tuesday 22 March 2011 |
Mick Hume
War without ends, yet without opposition, either
Cynics and half-hearted critics are no match for the half-cocked war on Libya. Time to invoke the principle of anti-intervention.
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| Tuesday 22 March 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
The most shortlived alliance in human history
Normally when governments launch a war they ask: ‘What's Plan B?’ In relation to Libya they're asking, ‘What’s Plan A?’
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| Monday 21 March 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Attack on Libya: the barbarism of buffoons
The bombings confirm that there is now an utter disconnect between the West’s geopolitical interests and its geopolitical behaviour.
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| Friday 18 March 2011 |
Sean Collins
Libya: how the West just made things worse
Sean Collins reports from New York on how the UN’s green light for military action may wreck any hope of freedom for the people of Libya.
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| Wednesday 16 March 2011 |
Tim Black
The gulf between rhetoric and reality
The hypocrisy of the demands for intervention in Libya is exposed by the near-silence over the crackdown in Bahrain.
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| Tuesday 15 March 2011 |
Mick Hume
Why a no-fly zone means no freedom for Libyans
Those looking to the West to intervene against Gaddafi degrade the name of internationalism and deny Libyans the right to control their fate.
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| Monday 7 March 2011 |
Mick Hume
Who still believes the West can bomb Libya to freedom?
Not the Libyan rebels, and not really the rattled Western leaders either. Liberal interventionists remain the last cheerleaders for imperialism.
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| Wednesday 23 February 2011 |
Mick Hume
Overdue end to the old world order
The Arab uprisings shocked us all – but perhaps the even bigger surprise is that these empty regimes have taken so long to crumble.
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| Tuesday 22 February 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Five reasons why Libya’s revolt will shake the world
Even more than Tunisia and Egypt, the inspiring rebellion against Colonel Gaddafi’s regime shows that nothing is permanent.
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| Tuesday 22 February 2011 |
Tim Black
Cynically playing the ‘1979 card’ in Bahrain
Bahraini royals and the US are wrong to depict the uprising as a harbinger of Iran-style extremism.
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| Tuesday 22 February 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Keeping ‘ignorant Africans’ out of Europe
Don’t fall for the EU’s crocodile tears over Libya - it conspired with Gaddafi to restrict Libyans’ freedom of movement.
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| Tuesday 15 February 2011 |
Brendan O’Neill
Egyptians don’t need yet more lectures...
…whether from Western politicians telling them they aren’t ready for democracy or radicals praising them for resurrecting ‘real politics’.
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| Tuesday 15 February 2011 |
Sean Collins
Obama on Egypt: more confused than cool
The idea that Obama played it ‘brilliantly cool’ on Egypt represents a spectacular rewriting of history.
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| Tuesday 15 February 2011 |
Kate Prengel
Ashton’s shallow view of ‘deep democracy’
A member of the UN press corps reports on the EU foreign minister’s undemocratic plans for North Africa.
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