The sudden assertion of human criteria within a dehumanising framework of political manipulation can be like a flash of lightning illuminating a dark landscape
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The Taliban's new tactics are taking them nearer to Kabul. Washington's response: redouble failure
Moscow’s war in Georgia and Tehran’s nuclear project highlight the west's strategic failings
In Afghanistan, Nigeria, the Philippines, and Mexico, insurgents reinvent a politics of rage
A tide of discontent and insurgency places the viability of the world's economic model in question
The United States remains
trapped by a military logic that guarantees an unwinnable
campaign
The cautious optimism over Washington's dialogue with Tehran may be premature
If Britain is serious about controlling nuclear proliferation, it has to take a lead
The elements of the global war are shifting faster than the strategy of America and its allies
The revived talk of war with Iran is tied to the unfolding race for the United States presidency
An intensified American effort in Afghanistan is again globalising a local conflict
The US military plans for long-term, low-intensity insurgency with its thinking locked in the past
The story of an Iraqi city and an Afghan prince should be a lesson to western states and media
Washington's problems in Iraq and Afghanistan are leading it to refocus its military attentions on Tehran
What will the world be like in 2020? Here are two scenarios, in the author's 350th openDemocracy column since September 2001
Today's food crisis echoes the early 1970s'. But global finance and climate change make it new
A French colonial defeat inspires a Taliban aiming to erode the resolve of the United
States
Washington's
bubble of optimism about Iraq
has burst, revealing the contrast between American and jihadi
strategic thinking
The
uncertain and fragile security situation in Iraq challenges the view that the war is being
won
The unavoidable emergency of climate change places key responsibility on states
A Washington military resignation - and Israel's operations in Gaza - may affect the likelihood and timing of a war with Tehran
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