Afghanistan's epic loss, Paul Rogers
The war in Afghanistan will move into its ninth year in under three months' time, with the anniversary of the start of the United States bombing on 7 October 2001. This war is now beginning to approach the duration of the Soviet occupation.... Iran’s tide: after the counter-revolution, Fred Halliday
It is already five weeks since the presidential elections on 12 June 2009 in Iran, whose official results and handling by the authorities provoked an immediate and nationwide outbreak of popular demonstrations. It may appear that the... Barack Obama's world, Godfrey Hodgson
Barack Obama's arrival on the world stage has been more than the entry of a young, popular president who offers a new and more generous spirit in America foreign policy. Almost everywhere he has gone - from Berlin to Cairo, from London to Accra... China’s civil society: Green Dam falls , Li Datong
China's ministry of industry and information technology (MIIT) announced on 8 June 2009 that all computer manufacturers would be required, from 1 July, to install the Green Dam filtering software on machines sold in China - in order to... Northwest by northeast: a tale of two frontiers, Sanjib Baruah
The violence unleashed by unmanned US drones, with the acquiescence of the Pakistani government, on remote mountain villages in the "lawless" Tribal Areas bordering Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) is more than a... |
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