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| Monday 6 April 2009 |
‘This matters greatly to our public opinion’
Widespread opposition to a proposed Afghan law is less about liberating women than shoring up Western authority.
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| Wednesday 25 March 2009 |
Blaming Karzai for the West’s failures
It is not the Afghan PM’s corruption that has wrecked Afghanistan, but the disarray of the invading powers.
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| Tuesday 14 October 2008 |
British forces: a token army of occupation
The Iraqi PM’s attack on Britain’s lack of commitment in Basra has shot a hole in the government’s ‘Iraq Story’.
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| Monday 15 September 2008 |
The ‘Bosnian model’ is no model for Georgia
Turning sections of the Caucasus into international protectorates will not deliver anything like democracy.
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| Thursday 28 August 2008 |
Russia’s first ‘Western-style’ war
Far from the Russian Bear reasserting its Great Power, its foreign policy, like Britain and America’s, is uncertain and erratic.
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| Tuesday 8 July 2008 |
G8 summit: a global displacement activity
Western governments’ desire to globalise big issues - from poverty to climate change - is an attempt to escape real responsibility for policymaking.
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| Tuesday 18 March 2008 |
Humanising Haditha
By showing all sides as victims of war, Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha can only find ‘common humanity’ in our ability to suffer.
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| Tuesday 29 January 2008 |
Why Karzai was right to reject Ashdown
He relished his role as colonial overlord in Bosnia, so it's not surprising the Afghans don’t want Paternalistic Paddy anywhere near their country.
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| Friday 25 January 2008 |
Keeping humanity secure?
The new focus on ‘human security’ in the debate about international relations suggests there should be an even more meddlesome form of policing of other states’ affairs. No thanks.
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| Tuesday 15 January 2008 |
Kosovo’s Declaration of Dependence
Hashim Thaci, one-time guerrilla turned PM of Kosovo, has promised to break away from Serbia. It's independence, Jim, but not as we know it.
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| Thursday 3 January 2008 |
Britain’s key weapon in Afghanistan: the bribe
In allegedly trying to buy off a local Taliban leader, British officials have shown a haughty and colonial disregard for the Afghan government.
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| Tuesday 11 December 2007 |
Britain's theatrical war against the Taliban
British troops are not fighting the ‘good fight’ in Afghanistan; they are hiding behind US airpower and taking towns from weak forces.
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| Tuesday 6 November 2007 |
What about democracy for Bosnia?
Western commentators fret about dictatorships in Burma and Pakistan yet turn a blind eye to the EU's colonial rule in 'over-emotional' Bosnia.
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| Monday 29 October 2007 |
Brown gives a whole new meaning to ‘liberty’
The British PM treats freedom as a stuffy British tradition, through which he might 'connect' with an atomised public. Thomas Jefferson he ain't.
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| Tuesday 18 September 2007 |
France is now more gung-ho than America
As he threatens war on Iran, French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner is living up to spiked’s warning that he is ‘the most dangerous man in Europe’.
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| Wednesday 12 September 2007 |
Reviving the idea of the ‘good war’
The French and British governments are cynically using and abusing the situation in Kosovo to try to resurrect support for liberal imperialism.
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| Monday 13 August 2007 |
Why does Gordon Brown hate politics?
A new book suggests that it is politicians' own low horizons and scepticism about political change that leads to apathy amongst the masses.
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| Wednesday 25 July 2007 |
David Cameron’s Rwandan distraction
Why the Tory leader prefers to pontificate about poverty 4,000 miles away rather than tackle problems in his constituency: washed-out Witney.
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| Thursday 28 June 2007 |
The White Liberal Democrat's Burden
Paddy Ashdown may have been a failed politician in Britain, but the former Lord of Bosnia now fancies himself as a free-floating colonialist who can fix the world's problems.
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| Wednesday 13 June 2007 |
The death of foreign policy
What will foreign policy be like under Gordon Brown, or David Cameron? Similar to what it was like under Blair: a desperate search for purpose overseas.
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