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No weapons. The decision to highlight weapons of mass destruction as the main justification for going to war in Iraq was taken for “bureaucratic reasons”, according to the US deputy defence secretary … Picking...

They’ve been in charge for a while by now… The Financial Times suggests that “more extreme Republicans” actually want a fiscal train wreck: “Proposing to slash federal spending, particularly on social programs, is a...

This is an eye-opening account of what Afghanistan is like today. The nominal US-installed ruler, Karzai, is a prisoner within Kabul, kept alive by massive US military protection, and doesn’t dare leave the capital....

A former student at an all-girls Catholic high school claims she was sexually assaulted more than a decade ago by a nun who taught morals and religion and was in charge of recruiting young...

I read this report that the US bribed one of Iraq’s senior generals to hand over Baghdad with minimal resistance, then faked his death while they put him into some kind of witness protection...

The longer that the interzone-formerly-imagined-as-Iraq exists in a state of postwar chaos and rapine, the more likely it is that simple Darwinism will throw up a generation of strong men who will “restore order”,...

Danny Glover is appealing and likable. He’s honed to perfection the character of a trustworthy buddy, a genuine guy. But Danny Glover’s image is under revision. It’s being revamped on cable TV and talk...

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world – a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power...

As economic libertarians, these people believe that markets should be free, formed by the rational actions of rational agents – who need only to be provided with perfect information about goods and services in...

I think their fundamental weakness stems from the undoubted fact that Bush et al are profoundly regressive and hierarchical people. Thus, they think in terms of cohorts and divisions, leaders, and roles. They think...