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Milne: It Is Not Democracy That's On The March In The Middle East
Znet Article, March, 15 2005
Seumas Milne
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For weeks a western chorus has been celebrating a new dawn of Middle Eastern freedom, allegedly triggered by the Iraq war. Tony Blair hailed a "ripple of change", encouraged by the US and Britain, that was bringing democracy to benighted Muslim la...
Milne: Iraq's War of Liberation
Znet Article, July, 03 2004
Seumas Milne
Milne's ZSpace page
The much-vaunted handover, when it came, was a secret hole-in-the-corner affair. There were no celebrations as the US proconsul Paul Bremer signed over technical authority to his green zone government of Iraqi quislings two days early to beat the ...
Milne: The Hutton Saga is a Sideshow
Znet Article, January, 31 2004
Seumas Milne
Milne's ZSpace page
We have been here before. In April 1972, the former brigadier Lord Widgery published his now notorious report into the killing of 14 unarmed civil rights demonstrators by British paratroopers in Northern Ireland three months earlier on Bloody Sund...
Milne: Why the US Fears Cuba
Znet Article, September, 08 2003
Seumas Milne
Milne's ZSpace page
Fifty years after Fidel Castro and his followers launched the Cuban revolution with an abortive attack on the dictator Batista's Moncada barracks, Cuba's critics are already writing its obituaries. Echoing President Bush's dismissal of Cuban-style...
Milne: Iraqis Paid The Blood Price For A Fraudulent War
Znet Article, April, 12 2003
Seumas Milne
Milne's ZSpace page
On the streets of Baghdad yesterday, it was Kabul, November 2001, all over again. Then, enthusiasts for the war on terror were in triumphalist mood, as the Taliban regime was overthrown. The critics had been confounded, they insisted, kites were f...
Milne: This Slur Of Anti-semitism Is Used To Defend Repression
Znet Article, May, 10 2002
Seumas Milne
Milne's ZSpace page
By Since the French revolution, the fates of the Jewish people and the left have been closely intertwined. The left's appeal to social justice and universal rights created a natural bond with a people long persecuted and excluded by the Christian ...
Milne: Our friends in Jenin
Znet Article, April, 15 2002
Seumas Milne
Milne's ZSpace page
The stories of brutality and destruction filtering out of the Jenin refugee camp have become increasingly ominous. While independent observers have been kept out - along with ambulances and UN blood supplies - the Israeli army has rampaged its way...
Milne: Can the US be defeated?
Znet Article, February, 15 2002
Seumas Milne
Milne's ZSpace page
Those who have argued that America's war on terror would fail to defeat terrorism have, it turns out, been barking up the wrong tree. Ever since President Bush announced his $45bn increase in military spending and gave notice to Iraq, Iran and Nor...
