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Friday, Jan 29
Osama bin Laden lends unwelcome support in fight against climate change
Meanwhile, the White House is doing what it can to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — even if Congress fails to bring in climate change legislation. The White House said the action would save 205 million barrels of oil and was the equivalent of taking 17 million cars off the road for one year.
Tony Blair at the Chilcot inquiry
The result has been hugely frustrating, not least because this may be the last opportunity to question Blair in such a way on what remains the greatest foreign policy calamity in the postwar era – with graver consequences even than the Suez debacle. Judging by the first session, Blair has s...
Blair: truth and lies | Mehdi Hasan
So far as our objective, it is disarmament, not regime change – that is our objective… I have got no doubt either that the purpose of our challenge from the United Nations is disarmament of weapons of mass destruction, it is not regime change.- Tony Blair, interview on Radio Monte Carlo, 14 N...
Thursday, Jan 28
State of the union: Obama's reality check
Barack Obama is a good man, and by the standards of his predecessor, an intellectually honest one. He told a Baptist congregation in Washington recently that there were times when change was so painfully slow that he had to confront his doubts. But Mr Obama's probity has low political curre...
Blame it on the French | Philippe Marlière
It is worth noting that Resolution 1441 was adopted by all five permanent members of the UN in November 2002. It stated that Iraq was in material breach of the ceasefire terms of resolution 687, passed in 1991. These breaches essentially related to the construction or import of weapons of ma...
Is this Obama's comeback? | Dan Kennedy
The pundit class doesn't quite know what to make of last night's speech. As always, the partisan divide has a lot to do with that. This time, though, it runs deeper, as commentators wrestle with what exactly Obama was trying to accomplish. "He sounded determined, patient, forceful, good-hu...
Obama's state of the union speech: how did the words he used compare to Bush, Reagan, JFK, FDR and Lincoln? As wordles
President Barack Obama has delivered his State of the Union address. Is his message similar to that of previous US presidents? Download the data • DATA: Most frequent words in State of the Union addresses • Download the Wordle as a PDF
Obama's state of the union home truths
The world under Obama is a sobering picture not all too different from the heady Bush days. Speaking from the very same pulpit where Bush described a horrific "axis of evil," Obama provided an updated version where he lumped North Korea and Iran together.
Iraq: a breach of the sacred | Gordon Lynch
The breach of the sacred always brings shame in its wake. Shame taints those who commissioned that breach – as happened to George W Bush, Tony Blair and the other political actors responsible for the war and who have been slowly removed from office. But as Jeffrey Alexander has observed, a br...
Wednesday, Jan 27
The Iraq war inquiry: will it call Blair to account?
The Chilcot inquiry will question Tony Blair about the Iraq war. So might we see the real truth emerge at last? Among professional Chilcot-watchers, there is a quietly growing sense of expectation. At these hearings, the Blair line on Iraq may finally be suffering death by a thousand cuts.
State of the union address by Obama: first addresses by other American presidents compared
President Obama delivers his State of the Union address to the joint houses of Congress this evening, assessing his first year in office and marking out his plans for the coming year. Download the data • DATA: Most frequent words in State of the Union addresses
Thanks to this 'illegal' war, Iraqis at last have real hope for the future | William Shawcross
In 1998 the frustrated inspectors left Iraq. In their final report they stated that Saddam had still not accounted for enough chemical and biological weapons to kill millions of people. No wonder President Clinton warned that the Iraqi tyrant was covertly building "an arsenal of devast...
Tuesday, Jan 26
Chilcot's missing witnesses
If Gordon Brown and David Miliband are now to face the Chilcot inquiry as the general election nears, why not William Hague, Iain Duncan Smith and Michael Ancram too? Labour's responsibility for Iraq may be greater than theirs, but it is unfair to act as though the Conservatives have no qu...
Monday, Jan 25
The real reason for the Iraq war
What seems unlikely, however, is that we will be any the wiser as to why – from a British standpoint – the invasion was undertaken at all. The question, when applied to the Americans, admits of a relatively straightforward answer. There may have been for George W an element of filial piety, an...
Security before liberty | View from the EU | Tony Bunyan
The USA got its way on every issue but it should not be forgotten that, so far, the Obama administration has rolled back few, if any, of the draconian powers given to homeland security agencies by George Bush nor drawn back from the wider transition to a surveillance society. When it comes to...
Saturday, Jan 23
Now Gordon Brown will have to face the music on Iraq
When Gordon Brown announced the inquiry into the Iraq war, Tony Blair was privately furious with his successor. The former prime minister angrily complained that the media would turn it into a show trial of himself. Show trial it is becoming, but of them both.
Friday, Jan 22
Brown is right to testify on Iraq | Jonathan Freedland
Until now, Gordon Brown's memorable public statements on the Iraq war have amounted to a single word. "Yes," he said in reply to Nick Robinson, who asked at a press conference during the 2005 election campaign whether the then chancellor would have taken the same decisions on Iraq as Tony B...
Thursday, Jan 21
Iraq inquiry: read between the lines | Chris Ames
Straw wants his contribution to Iraq to be seen in terms of offering strong advice to Blair as to the pitfalls of invading Iraq but in the event going along with the policy as a loyal member of the government. He implies that he steered Blair away from regime change without directly admitting...
