Another year, another BBC poll [pdf] to find out if those lucky Afghans are happy with their lot under the benevolent rule of the Jelly Amir. Even with the characteristically loaded questions, it isn't very good news for Obama. He wants to increase troop levels by 30,000, but this is opposed by the ...

Alternet has published an edited excerpt from the prologue to The Liberal Defence of Murder: "Many of the current batch of liberal advocates of empire have a history on the Left, often abandoned at some point after the collapse of the Soviet Union. For all but recalcitrant Stalinists, the human pros...

It was predictable enough that US military officials would hail the recent elections as a blinding success and final proof that all of gruesome carnage of the last six years has been worth it. Equally predictable was that a rabid minority, including William Shawcross and John Rentoul in the UK, woul...

Yours truly in The Guardian . Amusingly, a lot of the regular Guardianistas seem to be really pissed off about the mean things I said about Obama's foreign policy. Copyleft of Lenin's Tomb...

Guest post by redbedhead : The fifth largest army in the world, equipped with nuclear weapons and the full-backing of the most powerful empire in world history, has just invaded the Gaza Strip. It is fighting against a people in one of the poorest, most densely populated regions on the planet - and ...

I was going to write about the policy options of the incoming Obama administration, but let's face it: it's a race. If Mia Farrow can procure the services of Blackwater mercenaries before Obama gets a NATO or UN-led coalition together, then Mia wins. Oliver James points out in one his books that Ms ...

Here is an instance of convoluted hypocrisy for you: the fabled "international community", many of its constituents both benefiting from and deeply involved in the genocidal mass murder in the Congo, decided to apply sanctions on Zimbabwe for its role in the war. From the US Zimbabwe Democracy and E...

I just wanted to outline some arguments gleaned from today's 'mini-Marxism' event. The gathering, featuring István Mészáros, Tony Benn, Moazzam Begg (who consistently impresses one with his erudition, wit and gravity) and a bunch of others, was an attempt to provide socialist answers to the curre...

A set of parallel intuitions developed with the collapse of the USSR and quickly became hegemonic. Even if one didn't accept the more comical variants of the 'end of history' parable, public discussion was governed by three fundamental suppositions: 1) globalisation meant the end of national state e...

One of the ways in which popular movements achieve their goals is by exploiting divisions in the ruling class. One such may just rebound slightly to our advantage if elements of the US foreign policy elite move to return to pre-Bush disarmament procedures. Kate Hudson of CND points out in today's Mo...