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The Marriott bombing is terrible revenge for the Afghan campaign that has gone so badly wrong, writes Tariq Ali.
Six hours before she was executed, Mary, Queen of Scots wrote to her brother-in-law, Henry III of France: "As for my son, I commend him to you in so far as he deserves, for I…
It was symbolic that 2006 ended with a colonial hanging — most of it shown on state television in occupied Iraq. The trial was so blatantly rigged that even Human Rights Watch…
Once a war goes badly wrong and its justifications are shown to be lies, to insist that a ”democratic” Iraq is visible on the horizon and that ”we must stay the course” becomes a…
Daniel Ortega, blessed by the church, flanked by a former Contra as his vice-president and still loathed by the United States ambassador, may be a sickly shadow of his former…
Daniel Ortega, blessed by the church, flanked by a former Contra as his vice-president and still loathed by the United States ambassador, may be a sickly shadow of his former…
Something refreshingly old-fashioned has taken place in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal: a genuine revolution. From April 6 (until Monday, when King Gyanendra finally gave in to…
”The latest round of culture wars does neither side any good. The Western civilisational fundamentalists insist on seeing Muslims as the other — different, alien and morally…
There is now near-universal agreement that the Western occupation of Iraq has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster; first for the people of Iraq, second for the soldiers sent…
