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Massive attack

In an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America today, Hillary Clinton pledged that if Iran launches a nuclear attack against Israel, the United States would retaliate against Iran...

Top Bush aides pushed for Guant?namo torture

America’s most senior general was "hoodwinked" by top Bush administration officials determined to push through aggressive interrogation techniques of terror suspects held at Guant?namo Bay, leading to the US military abandoning its age-old ban on the cruel and inhumane treatment of prisoners, the Guardian reveals today...

Q&A: Torture and enhanced interrogation

The US uses pain and force against terror prisoners, and argues it is all perfectly legal...

A Man-Made Famine

There are many causes behind the world food crisis, but one chief villain: World Bank head, Robert Zoellick..

Manageable chaos in Iraq suits Iran

It may surprise George Bush and his top commanders to hear that the US military presence in Iraq suits Iran down to the ground. According to the respected French Middle East expert Oliver Roy, whose new book - The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East - has just been translated into English, Iran is just fine with "managed chaos" over its western border. ..

Muslim Brotherhood to boycott election

Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, the most powerful opposition movement in the country, is to boycott today’s municipal elections after hundreds of members were arrested or prevented from standing...

Secret US Plan for Military Future in Iraq

A confidential draft agreement covering the future of US forces in Iraq, passed to the Guardian, shows that provision is being made for an open-ended military presence in the country...

Anti-war Campaigners Have To Change Electoral Tactics

’So?" So said Dick Cheney when asked last week about public opinion being overwhelmingly against the war in Iraq. "You can’t be blown off course by polls." A few days later, his attitude, about the fact that the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq has reached 4,000, displayed similar levels of sympathy. ..

The naive armchair warriors are fighting a delusional war

The French philosopher Michel Foucault notes that in all societies discourse is controlled - imperceptibly constrained, perhaps, but constrained nonetheless. We are not free to say exactly what we like...

A War Of Utter Folly

The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a tragedy - for Iraq, for the US, for the UN, for truth and human dignity. I can only see one gain: the end of Saddam Hussein, a murderous tyrant...

Five years of failure

If George Bush and Tony Blair had presided as CEOs over deceptive and fraudulent practices in the City comparable to those they are guilty of with regard to Iraq, they would have been immediately and unceremoniously sacked...

So much for free speech

Gordon Brown’s government has finally caved in to the noisy mob who have been angrily demanding that the elderly Islamic preacher, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, should be refused a visa to come to the UK for medical treatment...

Foreign dictates?

Faced with complaints about its human rights abuses, Egypt is sheltering behind specious arguments about religion and national sovereignty..

A criminal idea

Attacking other countries to stop them acquiring nuclear weapons repudiates a key principle of international law..

Gaza’s falling wall changes Middle East map for ever

The tide of humans pouring over the frontier from Gaza into Egypt for days has now become a vast convoy of carts, cars and lorries. Peter Beaumont joined the jubilant throng who watched as the borders of a conflict that has lasted for generations were crossed..

An unstable marriage

George Bush has done his critics a new favour. Just when the Iraq issue was in danger of receding from the increasingly frenetic US primary campaign, his effort to formalise a long-term occupation of Iraq has re-ignited the issue and re-emboldened the Democrats...

Mubarak under pressure

It has been an uncomfortable few days for President Husni Mubarak, watching anxiously as the crisis in Gaza spilled over onto his territory, focusing intense and unwelcome attention - both at home and abroad - on Egypt’s role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict..

Reuters Africa Highlights 1500 GMT Jan 21

The Movement for Democratic Change said last week that during the protest it would demonstrate against a crumbling economy and call for a new constitution it said will guarantee that elections scheduled for March are free and fair. ..

Egyptian President Backs Mideast Accord

President Bush’s fast-track plan for a Mideast peace agreement got a welcome endorsement Wednesday from a nation long seen as a key Arab mediator. Bush responded by pulling his punches on the human rights backpedaling in Egypt that have cooled relations with this longtime ally...

Barack Obama - I’m sure we’ve seen him somewhere before

Like Will Smith, who in the new film I Am Legend wakes up to find himself the last man alive in a world of zombies, am I now the only person left on the planet who finds Barack Obama a little bit dull? Every time I listen to him, I start off thinking I’m about to wet my pants, but a minute-and-a-half later find my mind wandering, asking itself things like: ’What does "the challenge of hope" mean?’..