“THE wind of change,” British prime minister Harold Macmillan informed the South African parliament in 1960, “is blowing through this continent.” The…
A SPECTER is haunting the forthcoming celebrations in Russia on May 9 of the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism. News…
ON a typically freezing day in early February, a bunch of folk from the Chechen town of Achkoi-Martan climbed into a rickety…
PICTURE this scenario: four Israeli youths are shot dead by the Palestinian police, which claims they were making a nuisance of themselves…
IT was perhaps inevitable that this month’s Iraqi elections would be cited by those who unequivocally backed the US-led military occupation of…
IT was a memorable night, albeit largely for reasons that fall considerably short of pleasantness. On June 9, 1983, I sat my…
THERE is precious little risk of anyone putting too much store by last week’s talks between the foreign secretaries of India and…
ONCE details related to the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh began emerging earlier this month, a fairly interesting unofficial reaction followed in Israel.…
A YEAR ago, as Sri Lanka’s long and agonizing civil war entered its endgame phase, there was little indication that the bloody…
MOST people – to paraphrase the radical British poet Adrian Mitchell – ignore most history because most history ignores most people. It…
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