Playing in the Rough
Why won’t Gary Player answer my questions about apartheid and evictions?
Archive for the 'foreign affairs' Category
The Junta’s Accomplices
If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals.
Without Principle
New revelations show that Blair’s government is as corrupt as any of those it criticises.
In the Company of Wolves
The members of the Council of Europe have agreed to overlook each other’s abuses. Read more »
The Generals’ War
In victory or in defeat, the military leaders who dominate Israeli politics can’t lose. Read more »
Israel’s Attack Was Premeditated
Hizbullah’s capture of Israeli soldiers provided the excuse for an assault planned for months.
The King of Fairyland
Bush’s view of the Middle East rests on pure fantasy.
A Well of Hypocrisy
One man uses gas and oil money to help the poor. The other uses it to buy guns. Guess who gets vilified.
How Britain Denies its Holocausts
Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?
Bards of the Powerful
Far from challenging the G8’s role in Africa’s poverty, Geldof and Bono are legitimising its power.
Spin, Lies and Corruption
The G8’s debt reduction plan is little better than an extortion racket
Pedigree Dogs of War
Some people who engage in foreign conflicts are called terrorists. Others are about to be licensed by the government
Killing vs Helping
Bush and Blair no longer seem able to see the difference.
A Deadly Reversal
Why does no one care that the world’s worst conflict has broken out again?
Exploitation on Tap
Why is Britain using its aid money to persuade South Africa to privatise its public services?
Adventure playground
Africans have good reason to be suspicious of British involvement in their affairs
Empire of Denial
My old housemate has devised a new and terrifying myth of power
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This Is What We Paid For
Britain’s foreign aid has been used to bankroll a programme for mass starvation
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Apocalypse Please
US policy towards the Middle East is driven by a rarefied form of madness. It’s time we took it seriously.
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Victim’s Licence
Our fairytale version of Rwanda’s genocide has allowed us to overlook the government’s own crimes against humanity
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On the Edge of Lunacy
British foreign aid is being directed to countries willing to sell off their assets to big business
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Tony Blair’s New Friend
He made the moral case for war - but backs a dictator who boils prisoners to death
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Fake Patriots
Why does the right refuse to see that US power has become a threat to our sovereignty?
Blair Trashes Africa
Tony Blair has just ensured that Europe and the US continue to promote famine.
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Don’t Cry for Clare
Short’s career as a licensed rebel casts light on our post-oppositional, post-modern politics
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A War of Terror
The men who claim to be fighting “evil” on behalf of “good” are also funding one of the world’s dirtiest wars
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Our Racist Demonology
Robert Mugabe is portrayed as the prince of darkness, but when whites expel black people from their lands, nobody gives a damn.
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The Logic of Empire
The United States is now our foremost enemy. We must begin to treat it as such.
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Moral Flight
Bush and Blair, who made so much of their “leadership” when there was a war to be fought, are nowhere to be seen when peace is needed.
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World Bank to West Bank
The movement written off after September 11 is demonstrating its worth in Palestine
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Hell’s Grannies
British women are using themselves as human shields in Israel, and they put the rest of us to shame
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Europe’s Dirty War
The European Union is funding Plan Colombia
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We Share the Blame for Zimbabwe
Britain’s Debt to its People Runs into Billions
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Reservoir of Sleaze
The British Government is underwriting Turkey’s ethnic cleansing programme.
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Short Shrift for the World’s Poor
Clare Short, the international development secretary, is selling poor countries down the river
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Depraved Debt Collectors
It’s time to disband the murderous Export Credit Guarantee Department
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A Laughing Soldier with a Razor Blade
How the West has licensed Indonesia’s reign of terror
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Human Sacrifice
West Papua, in Indonesia, is being surrended for the sake of geopolitics
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Hunting the Beast
I track down the police torturer who had me beaten up in 1989
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Communist Pigs vs Capitalist Pigs
Only by killing all of Haiti’s pigs could the US force its people to abandon their self-sufficiency
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Beloved Country
South Africa has embarked on a brave and hazardous land reform programme
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Dispossessed without trace
The Brazilian press and political system is ignoring a wholesale theft of land and the murder of its people
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The Scattering of the Dead
A disastrous project funded by the Canadian Government is destituting an African people
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The Maasai and the Mercedes Men
A fraudulent privatisation project is reducing the Maasai to little more than tourist dancers
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Keepers of the Artificial Wilderness
In East Africa, conservationists are creating a wilderness out of inhabited lands, then punishing the people they have dispossessed
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Moses in the Wilderness
One man’s story might hold the key to the survival of the Maasai
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Collateral Damage
Local people are the real victims of the turf war between the conservation authorities in Kenya
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Charity Begins at Home
Self-serving relief agencies are doing nothing to build up developing countries’ own capacity to respond
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