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James Meek works from Washington, D.C.. ABC News Investigative Reporter. Artist, photodog, war writer. Misc awards. Ex-Senior Counterterrorism Adviser @HouseHomeland. Tips: meekwire@protonmail.com James Meek has over 6016 followers on Twitter.
The appointment of former acting prosecutions head Mokotedi Mpshe as an acting judge on the North West bench may be unconstitutional.
JM Coetzee’s new book <i>Summertime</i> has been shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize.
Malika Labazanova crouched on the floor of her house at number 20, Third Tsimlyansky Lane, Grozny. A young man in camouflage fatigues held the muzzle of an automatic rifle…
In Car City, a chic, lavishly funded theme park in the Volkswagen company town of Wolfsburg in Germany, there is a museum, and in that museum, there is something from Britain.…
The European Union has grown to 25 diverse states, with five more waiting in the wings and at least another 14 sniffing around the periphery. Should Turkey be allowed to join the…
Driving through western Ukraine on a hot spring day in the mid-1990s, I passed an idyllic scene. Scores of Ukrainian army conscripts lay around a radar antenna, sound asleep in…
In the software business, the games go by the indigestible acronym, MMORPGs (massively multiplayer online role-playing games), but they are more easily understood as virtual…
Paul Bremer’s departure and the handover of limited sovereignty to an unelected Iraqi government was to be the end of military occupation and the beginning of independence. From…
Images of Camp Delta’s orange-jumpsuited, manacled detainees provoked international outrage. But the real horror they face is the threat of infinite confinement, without any…
The first American pontoon raft slid into the river Tigris with a slosh and a clatter, and young Iraqi men watched from both banks, curious, timid and passive, as United States…
E was bitten badly by the Decode bug. In 2000 he bought 30m kronas’ worth of shares – more than 230,000 pounds at today’s exchange rates – when prices were at their peak. They…
One evening a small column of white, four-wheel drive cars passed through the villages of the Great Rift Valley in southern Ethiopia, in a chocolate smell of long-dry earth…
Enemy at the Gates mixes imagination and truth, writes James Meek.
