Short’s career as a licensed rebel casts light on our post-oppositional, post-modern politics
Category: foreign affairs
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
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.
The Logic of Empire
The United States is now our foremost enemy. We must begin to treat it as such.
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.
World Bank to West Bank
The movement written off after September 11 is demonstrating its worth in Palestine
Hell’s Grannies
British women are using themselves as human shields in Israel, and they put the rest of us to shame
Europe’s Dirty War
The European Union is funding Plan Colombia
We Share the Blame for Zimbabwe
Britain’s Debt to its People Runs into Billions
Reservoir of Sleaze
The British Government is underwriting Turkey’s ethnic cleansing programme.
Short Shrift for the World’s Poor
Clare Short, the international development secretary, is selling poor countries down the river
Depraved Debt Collectors
It’s time to disband the murderous Export Credit Guarantee Department
A Laughing Soldier with a Razor Blade
How the West has licensed Indonesia’s reign of terror
Human Sacrifice
West Papua, in Indonesia, is being surrended for the sake of geopolitics
Hunting the Beast
I track down the police torturer who had me beaten up in 1989
Communist Pigs vs Capitalist Pigs
Only by killing all of Haiti’s pigs could the US force its people to abandon their self-sufficiency
Beloved Country
South Africa has embarked on a brave and hazardous land reform programme
Dispossessed without trace
The Brazilian press and political system is ignoring a wholesale theft of land and the murder of its people
The Scattering of the Dead
A disastrous project funded by the Canadian Government is destituting an African people
The Maasai and the Mercedes Men
A fraudulent privatisation project is reducing the Maasai to little more than tourist dancers