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Europe needs to ditch austerity model
DEMOCRACY has never been the European Union’s strongest suit. It’s an institution where the unelected and the barely accountable have always called the shots — and electorates are routinely made to...
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Murderous US drone campaign fuelling terror
MORE than a decade after George W. Bush launched it, the “war on terror” was supposed to be winding down. US military occupation of Iraq has ended and Nato is looking for a way out of Afghanistan, even...
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Foreign intervention will shed more Syrian blood
AS Syria descends deeper into civil war and human misery, pressure for yet another western military intervention in the Arab world is growing. Last week, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US...
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Intervention drives Syria’s descent into darkness
LONDON: The destruction of Syria is now in full flow. What began as a popular uprising 17 months ago is now an all-out civil war fuelled by regional and global powers that threatens to engulf the...
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Anti-West protests no surprise
LONDON: Eleven years after it began, Nato’s occupation of Afghanistan is crumbling. The US decision to suspend joint Afghan-Nato operations in response to a wave of attacks by Afghan soldiers and...
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Intervention in Syria risks blowback
THE signs are unmistakable. Once again, the west is preparing to escalate military intervention in the Arab and Muslim world. This time the target is Syria. Since the US presidential election, the...
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Make it impossible to inflict Iraq barbarism again
IF anyone doubted what kind of Iraq has been bequeathed by a decade of US-sponsored occupation and war, Tuesday’s deadly sectarian bomb attacks around Baghdad against bus queues and markets should have...
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Time not just to bury Thatcher, but Thatcherism as well
THEY have only themselves to blame. Protests were always likely at any official sendoff for the most socially destructive prime minister in modern British history. But by turning Margaret Thatcher’s...
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No end to injustice of ‘war on terror’
MORE than four years after Barack Obama pledged to close the US internment camp at Guantanamo, over half its 166 inmates are on hunger strike, 16 are being force fed, and soldiers last week used rubber...
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West cynically bleeds Syria to weaken Iran
IF anyone doubted that Syria’s gruesome civil war is already spinning into a wider Middle East conflict, the events of the past few days should have laid them to rest. Most ominous was Israel’s string...
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