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Unionism means Germany has to pay up for Greece
What would you do this morning if you were a Greek? Would you agree to your government cutting public-sector jobs, pay and pensions?
Media can’t make blemishes vanish
It’s for governments, not journalists, to guard public secrets and there’s no national jeopardy in WikiLeaks’ revelations, argues <b>Simon Jenkins</b>
Iraq war: A $1-trillion catastrophe
Mission accomplished? The Iraq war did more than anything to alienate the Atlantic powers from the rest of the world.
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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.
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Parallels with Nam
The reason for invading Afghanistan seemed like a good idea at the time. Simon Jenkins reports.
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America is not the country I once knew
America seems much in need of Roosevelt’s maxim to stop fearing fear itself. Virtually all comment on the Mumbai massacre has mentioned 9/11.
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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.
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Sanctions against Zimbabwe are an empty gesture
Economic sanctions are a coward’s war. They do not work but are a way in which rich elites feel they are "committed" to some distant struggle.
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Playing the dictators’ game
Two dictators face two disasters, one is in China, the other in Burma. One is an earthquake, the other a flood. Tens of thousands are dead and millions at risk. Being dictatorial, both regimes responded in a manner heavy with the politics of sovereignty. In one case that helps people, in the other it kills them.
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As Burma dies, world’s invaders sit on their hands
You don’t have to be cynical to do foreign policy, but it helps. A sigh of relief rose over the West’s chancelleries on Monday as it became clear that the Chinese earthquake was big — big enough to trump Burma’s cyclone. To add to the relief, Beijing was behaving better than it has over past calamities.
