Category: foreign affairs

The Generals’ War

In victory or in defeat, the military leaders who dominate Israeli politics can’t lose.

Hizbullah’s capture of Israeli soldiers provided the excuse for an assault planned for months.

Bush’s view of the Middle East rests on pure fantasy.

One man uses gas and oil money to help the poor. The other uses it to buy guns. Guess who gets vilified.

Why do so few people know about the atrocities of empire?

Far from challenging the G8’s role in Africa’s poverty, Geldof and Bono are legitimising its power.

The G8’s debt reduction plan is little better than an extortion racket

Some people who engage in foreign conflicts are called terrorists. Others are about to be licensed by the government

Bush and Blair no longer seem able to see the difference.

Why does no one care that the world’s worst conflict has broken out again?

Why is Britain using its aid money to persuade South Africa to privatise its public services?

Africans have good reason to be suspicious of British involvement in their affairs

My old housemate has devised a new and terrifying myth of power

Britain’s foreign aid has been used to bankroll a programme for mass starvation

US policy towards the Middle East is driven by a rarefied form of madness. It’s time we took it seriously.

Our fairytale version of Rwanda’s genocide has allowed us to overlook the government’s own crimes against humanity

British foreign aid is being directed to countries willing to sell off their assets to big business

He made the moral case for war – but backs a dictator who boils prisoners to death

Why does the right refuse to see that US power has become a threat to our sovereignty?

Tony Blair has just ensured that Europe and the US continue to promote famine.