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Znet Article Steele: In This Nuclear Standoff, It's The US That's The Rogue State

Znet Article, April, 12 2013 Jonathan Steele
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The use of threats and isolation against Iran and North Korea is a bizarre, perilous way to conduct foreign relations

Znet Article Steele: Syria: How We Can End The Bloodshed

Znet Article, February, 01 2013 Jonathan Steele
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Israel's attack was a reminder that Syria's turmoil is having dangerously unpredictable consequences across the region

Znet Article Steele: Diary

Znet Article, March, 16 2012 Jonathan Steele
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Whether or not Annan will be able to do anything, the real question is how a transition to a new political system can be negotiated

Znet Article Steele: Iraq War Logs

Znet Article, October, 23 2010 Jonathan Steele
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Being named after Saddam Hussein may have been a badge of honour for some Iraqis during his 30 years of rule but it later turned into a sentence of death for two of them, the war logs suggest.

Znet Article Steele: Diary

Znet Article, September, 22 2010 Jonathan Steele
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The road from Kabul to Kandahar was once known as the Eisenhower highway. Built in the 1950s, when the United States and the Soviet Union competed peacefully for Afghan friendship, this US-funded 300-mile ribbon of tarmac was plied for two decades...

Znet Article Steele: What Obama Must Tell Bibi

Znet Article, May, 07 2009 Jonathan Steele
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Only a dramatic break from previous US policy on Israel can end the Middle East deadlock.

Znet Article Steele: Sri Lanka Faces A Grim New Year

Znet Article, January, 05 2009 Jonathan Steele
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Seizing Kilinochchi was done at a fearful human cost - comparisons with Gaza are not amiss

Znet Article Steele: Carter urges ‘supine’ Europe to break with US over Gaza blockade

Znet Article, May, 28 2008 Jonathan Steele
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Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian yesterday. Carter, visiting the Welsh border town of Hay for the Guardian literary festival,...

Znet Article Steele: A Failure to Think

Znet Article, January, 24 2008 Jonathan Steele
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Defeat in Iraq? By its own hubristic prospectus, the neocon project has been a cataclysm - caused by a total lack of analysis

Znet Article Steele: A failure to think

Znet Article, January, 21 2008 Jonathan Steele
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An analysis of why the U.S. failed in Iraq.

Znet Article Steele: Welcome, Mr President, to the Misery You've Created

Znet Article, January, 14 2008 Jonathan Steele
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In eight years Palestinians have seen the bald eagle of enlightened US power degenerate into a phoney, biased, cynical lame duck.

Znet Article Steele: Good News From Baghdad At Last: The Oil Law Has Stalled

Znet Article, August, 05 2007 Jonathan Steele
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Good News From Baghdad At Last: The Oil Law Has Stalled

Znet Article Steele: Ravaged by war ... and poverty

Znet Article, August, 01 2007 Jonathan Steele
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Ravaged by war ... and poverty

Znet Article Steele: Hamas acted on a very real fear of a US-sponsored coup

Znet Article, June, 24 2007 Jonathan Steele
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Hamas acted on a very real fear of a US-sponsored coup

Znet Article Steele: Afghanistan: The west has to accept that there is no military solution

Znet Article, June, 15 2007 Jonathan Steele
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Afghanistan: The west has to accept that there is no military solution

Znet Article Steele: As US power fades, it can't find friends to take on Iran

Znet Article, February, 06 2007 Jonathan Steele
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The shadowy outlines o...

Znet Article Steele: Iraqis Can't Be Blamed for the Chaos Unleashed by Invasion

Znet Article, December, 17 2006 Jonathan Steele
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Iraqis Can't Be Blamed for the Chaos Unleashed by Invasion

Znet Article Steele: The return to power of Avigdor Lieberman and his anti-Arab racism is a mark of the point Israeli politics has now reached

Znet Article, November, 03 2006 Jonathan Steele
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At one level you have to hand it to the Israelis. Once cleared into the Knesset, the parliament building, journalists can wander into the members' cafeteria without an escort. Cheaply made tables are packed together as closely as in an airport ter...

Znet Article Steele: Lost In Translation

Znet Article, June, 17 2006 Jonathan Steele
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My recent comment piece explaining how Iran's president was badly misquoted when he allegedly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" has caused a welcome little storm. The phrase has been seized on by western and Israeli hawks to re-double su...

Znet Article Steele: If Iran Is Ready To Talk, The Us Must Do So Unconditionally

Znet Article, June, 04 2006 Jonathan Steele
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It is 50 years since the greatest misquotation of the cold war. At a Kremlin reception for western ambassadors in 1956, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced: "We will bury you." Those four words were seized on by American hawks as proof o...

Znet Article Steele: We Have No Reason To Stay In Basra And Ought To Pull Out

Znet Article, May, 20 2006 Jonathan Steele
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Tony Blair's folly in taking Britain to war in Iraq is blood under the bridge, a blunder that cannot be reversed. But Blair made a second mistake that is less often discussed. He should have withdrawn British troops from southern Iraq as soon as i...

Znet Article Steele: One-sided Reporting That Is Delaying An End To The Killing

Znet Article, May, 06 2006 Jonathan Steele
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By the time you read this, there may be good news from Africa. A peace agreement could have been signed for Darfur, the place often compared with Rwanda as a cause for international shame because warnings of genocide went unheeded. If done by last...

Znet Article Steele: Behind Death Squads

Znet Article, April, 15 2006 Jonathan Steele
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Baghdad. Much ink, as well as indignation, is being spent on whether Iraq is on the verge of, in the midst of, or nowhere near civil war. Wherever you stand in this largely semantic debate, the one certainty is that the seedbed for the country's s...

Znet Article Steele: US Military Action Against Syria Would Lead To Disaster

Znet Article, November, 06 2005 Jonathan Steele
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By strange chance the American embassy in Damascus almost faces Iraq's. As US forces roared up the Euphrates valley to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003, the contrast between the two buildings was stark. A forbidding fortress that few people wanted to...

Znet Article Steele: Poland's disenchanted killed off 'New Europe'

Znet Article, October, 30 2005 Jonathan Steele
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  "New Europe" is dead, and that's offic...

Znet Article Steele: Theatre Of The Cynical

Znet Article, August, 19 2005 Jonathan Steele
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Contrast the world's overwhelming coverage, especially on television, of the departure of Israeli settlers from Gaza with the minimal reporting of larger and more brutal evictions in previous months.There was no "sensitivity training" for Israeli ...

Znet Article Steele: Sri Lanka Snipers Damage Peace Hopes

Znet Article, August, 15 2005 Jonathan Steele
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Gloom over Sri Lanka's stagnant peace process intensified yesterday as hundreds of troops and police manned hurriedly erected checkpoints throughout Colombo in the wake of the assassination of the foreign minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar."This is the...

Znet Article Steele: Our Guernica

Znet Article, April, 27 2005 Jonathan Steele
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Robert Zoellick is the archetypal US government insider, a man with a brilliant technical mind but zero experience of any coalface or war front. Sliding effortlessly between ivy league academia, the US treasury and corporate boardrooms (including ...

Znet Article Steele: It Was Gorbachev, Not The Pope, Who Brought The System Down

Znet Article, April, 09 2005 Jonathan Steele
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The deaths of the powerful elicit extravagant claims, and many of the tributes to the man being buried in Rome today have been little short of grotesque. Dumbing-down comes over obituary writers, and in their eagerness to define a clear legacy the...

Znet Article Steele: New War On Terror

Znet Article, January, 15 2005 Jonathan Steele
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The promise of imminent release for four British detainees held at the notorious US prison at Guantánamo Bay is obviously welcome, but it is only a tiny exception in the surge of bad news from the Bush team on the human rights front. The first fe...

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