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Patrick Hayes
The dangers of sabre-
rattling in Syria
The spread of the Syrian war to Turkey shows how lethal the internationalisation of conflicts can be.
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| Monday 8 October 2012 |
Luke Gittos
Another fine mess NATO has got us into
As the mayhem in Syria shows, NATO does little but destabilise the countries that it threatens to intervene in.
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| Tuesday 18 September 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
What’s motoring this ‘Muslim rage’?
The Islamic world’s fury over a YouTube film speaks to something profound: the hollowing-out of the politics of state and diplomacy.
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| Wednesday 15 August 2012 |
Alex Joffe
Are we willing to die to save the past?
Archaeologist Alex Joffe on how Western empowerment of Islamists threatens precious antiquities.
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| Monday 13 August 2012 |
Brendan O’Neill
Syria: how the West is sanctioning sectarianism
In the name of making a PR performance of their moral resolve, Western governments are meddling in Syria in an ever-more lethal way.
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| Wednesday 4 July 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
A Libyan election on NATO’s terms
The first election in 47 years should have been momentous, but Western meddling warped Libya’s democratic struggle.
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| Thursday 19 April 2012 |
Tim Black
The imperial narcissism of the F1 boycotters
The activists who say the race shouldn't be staged in Bahrain are only interested in displaying their decency.
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| Wednesday 11 April 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Why Syrians should
say no to Annan
The UN ‘peace plan’ is about enforcing stability, even if that means keeping Assad in power, not liberating Syrians.
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| Thursday 1 March 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
How the West wrecked Libya
Far from being a model for future interventions, Libya shows that meddling strangles the democratic impulse.
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| Tuesday 7 February 2012 |
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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