CHARLIE HEBDO. A month ago, no one had even heard of it here in North…
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World politics and events.
SCANNING THIS WEEK’S renewal of the Bush and Blair trials, I wondered: do I alone…
AS I WRITE THIS, the swell of a Western grassroots outcry against the Nigerian outfit,…
THE DELUSION fueling Uganda’s homophobes is nicely summarized by Douglas Foster, in a Los Angeles…
A SETTLEMENT, John Kerry said this week, is better than settlements. Yet for years now,…
IN THE YEARS leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a commonplace indictment of…
PERHAPS THE MOST remarkable thing about Adnan Rasheed’s defence of the Malala Yousafzai shooting (putting…
IN A MAY 2013 Ahram Online interview, the US ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson, fielded…
TO UNEARTH SOME latent implications of Edward Snowden’s recent act of whistle blowing, and the…
IT WAS ONLY eight days after the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, and…
WITHIN DAYS of the return of Dennis Rodman, the ad-hoc US Secretary for DPRK-American Goodwill,…
EVEN IF THE contemporary account of al-Umari is greatly exaggerated, the 1324 transit of the…
IN THIS LATEST of the Gaza Wars, a little noted symmetry offers insight into developments…
AS THE POLITICAL and economic fortunes of Greece grow more precarious, it becomes harder to…
THERE ARE no words of sufficient force to summarize this week’s attempted murder of fourteen…
WAYNE K. SPEAR 