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9/11: It’s all I’ve ever known
Aaron White was six years old in New York City when the Towers fell. For the lucky ones, life just moved on
‘A Star Is Born’ expected to win big at Golden Globes
Hosting the gala will be actress Sandra Oh and comedian Andy Samberg
Trump’s presidential campaign may not be the last to successfully use scare tactics
Right-wing populism is gaining fertile ground in Europe, preying on the fears of ordinary citizens who feel excluded by ‘establishment politics’.
World leaders outraged by CIA torture report
Many world leaders are criticising the torture methods of the CIA, revealed this week in a US Senate report, and they are calling for legal action.
CIA lied about brutal and ineffective torture – report
A US Senate report found that the CIA misled the American public about its torture methods after 9/11 and were brutal and pervasive in their actions.
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld memoirs reveal internal battles
Upcoming accounts could offer new insights on issues ranging from Iraq and Guantánamo to Hurricane Katrina.
Cheney ‘told CIA to withhold information’
The CIA withheld information about a counter-terrorism programme from Congress for eight years on orders from former US vice-president Dick Cheney.
Dick Cheney unplugged
The former US vice president refuses to be a has-been. His voice appears to carry even more weight than it did in the days of the Bush administration.
Cheney: Interrogations saved ‘hundreds of thousands’
Dick Cheney insisted on Sunday that intelligence extracted from interrogations of suspected militants had saved "hundreds of thousands" of lives.
It might be fun to see Cheney behind bars for condoning torture
The fact that waterboarding was repeated so many times on two people suggests that Bush officials lied when they said its use was strictly controlled.
Cheney and the apologists of torture distrust democracy
Our way of life is threatened not by an al-Qaeda nutcase, but politicians like former US vice-president Dick Cheney in thrall to a fantasy war.
No geo-strategic conspiracy
Putin claims that Washington is to blame for the Caucasus crisis. Does he really think Dick Cheney’s that clever?
Russia warns against rearming Georgia
Russia has warned that any Western moves to rearm Georgia could bring further instability, sharpening the stand-off between Moscow and Washington.
Russia says Washington fanning Georgia instability
Russia on Wednesday accused the US of stirring up instability in Georgia, hours after US Vice-President Dick Cheney landed in the region.
West’s impotence laid bare
Moscow has to take some of the blame. But it is the West’s policy of liberal interventionism that has fuelled war in Georgia.