Category: foreign affairs

Don’t Cry for Clare

Short’s career as a licensed rebel casts light on our post-oppositional, post-modern politics

The men who claim to be fighting “evil” on behalf of “good” are also funding one of the world’s dirtiest wars

Robert Mugabe is portrayed as the prince of darkness, but when whites expel black people from their lands, nobody gives a damn.

The United States is now our foremost enemy. We must begin to treat it as such.

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.

The movement written off after September 11 is demonstrating its worth in Palestine

British women are using themselves as human shields in Israel, and they put the rest of us to shame

The European Union is funding Plan Colombia

Britain’s Debt to its People Runs into Billions

The British Government is underwriting Turkey’s ethnic cleansing programme.

Clare Short, the international development secretary, is selling poor countries down the river

It’s time to disband the murderous Export Credit Guarantee Department

How the West has licensed Indonesia’s reign of terror

West Papua, in Indonesia, is being surrended for the sake of geopolitics

I track down the police torturer who had me beaten up in 1989

Only by killing all of Haiti’s pigs could the US force its people to abandon their self-sufficiency

South Africa has embarked on a brave and hazardous land reform programme

The Brazilian press and political system is ignoring a wholesale theft of land and the murder of its people

A disastrous project funded by the Canadian Government is destituting an African people

A fraudulent privatisation project is reducing the Maasai to little more than tourist dancers