The huge anti-war marches and events around the world on the weekend of 15-16 February 2003 may be the most significant political demonstrations since the Cold War era.
The past week has seen intense activity and argument in Europe, the United States and the Gulf as the Iraq crisis intensifies. Much of the controversy has revolved around the
It is a year since I started writing these weekly columns for openDemocracy, just as the war in Afghanistan was starting. Since then, I have tried to analyse the changes
There has been an assumption, based on all the reports of troop movements and the increasingly insistent tone of President Bush, that war with Iraq is imminent. However, other sources
President Bushs State of the Union address comes as near to a declaration of war on Iraq as is possible without the guns beginning to fire. It rehearsed all
The idea that Britain might need an exit strategy from its commitment to the Bush administration over Iraq may seem fanciful in this week of all weeks when Tony Blair
Sixteen months after the attacks of 11 September, what is the status of al-Qaida and what are its prospects? Earlier articles in this series (7 November 2002 and 4
Towards the end of 2002 it became evident that the crisis with Iraq was composed of three core elements.
The first was a deep-seated commitment by the more hawkish
Every year for at least the past two decades, a hole in the ozone layer in the stratosphere has formed over the Antarctic during the spring months. The destruction of
It now seems clear, some would say abundantly clear, that the Bush administration is intent on terminating the Saddam Hussein regime, and it is frankly difficult to see how war
As the United Nations (UN) weapons inspection process continues in Iraq, and with mixed signals coming out of Washington, there appears to be some uncertainty over the likelihood of war.
Diplomatic moves by the United States to gain support for the termination of the Saddam Hussein regime have intensified in the past two weeks. One aspect of this has been
