Category: foreign affairs

Independence from America

The US, always a questionable friend, threatens, if Trump wins, to become our greatest threat.

History, as the government tells it, is one long lie, airbrushing a host of atrocities.

The world’s most powerful nations endorsed the Indonesian occupation of West Papua 50 years ago. Now they have a duty to help bring it to an end.

Aung San Suu Kyi should lose her Nobel Prize, as a result of her disgraceful complicity in genocide

The US government, it seems, couldn’t care less if it causes a humanitarian catastrophe in one of the world’s poorest nations.

Imperialism did almost as much harm to the ruling nations as it did to their subject peoples.

How did genocide denial become a doctrine of the internationalist left?

This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.

This is supporting material for the article See No Evil.

This is my reply to a former colonial official denying British atrocities in Kenya

We British have a peculiar ability to blot out our colonial history.

Should wider sanctions be imposed on Syria?

How a group which claims to defend human rights turned into an apologist for genocidaires and ethnic cleansers.

My letter to Media Lens over the issue of the massacre at Srebrenica.

The right-wing denial of the genocides in Bosnia and Rwanda is bad enough; the new left-wing denial is even worse.

What are our nuclear weapons for, and who controls them?

What has happened to Bush’s secret prisoners?

Why won’t Gary Player answer my questions about apartheid and evictions?

If you want to support democracy in Burma, phone Gary Player and the other western businessmen propping up the generals.

New revelations show that Blair’s government is as corrupt as any of those it criticises.