The Defence White Paper assumes an aggressive posture and receives unprecedented funding
Tag Archives: Iraq
Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?
November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am
It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson
Elemental Blindness
February 2, 2007 – 2:26 pm
John Hinkson argues the predictable failure of the new strategy in Iraq
The Rogue to End All Rogues
February 2, 2003 – 9:24 pm
John Hinkson America’s nihilistic hold on WMD’s is the key to the insanity of its leaders
The Iraqi Connection
October 2, 2002 – 8:26 am
Scott Burchill ‘Evidence’ for war so far presented is loaded in favour of a pre-determined conflict and panders to a wider need for grotesque self-deception.
Armageddon in the Middle East?
April 2, 2002 – 7:28 am
Jeremy Salt The roots of the current middle-east conflict were laid long before Israel was founded. The last, best hope for a just peace is that the Israeli people will come to terms with the problematic history of Zionism.
Civilisational Chauvinism
With talk of a ‘long war’, the US has committed itself to a high-intensity, asymmetrical war against civilian populations, writes Guy Rundle