In the aftermath of what distinguished British journalist David Hirst described as “one of the most exemplary, civilised uprisings in history,” Egyptians…

THOSE who have much at stake in the current stock market shakedown employ an interesting, if self-defeating strategy to mask a financial…

Politically motivated violence which accepts no limits or constraints and makes no distinction between combatants and civilians is indefensible, both morally and…

They were called “dead-enders,” then “Saddam loyalists” and “remnants of the old regime.” This was when the Pentagon was in denial about…

The Jakarta Lobby was an informal group of like-minded bureaucrats (DFAT, Ausaid, Defence), intelligence officers (DIO, ONA), as well as journalists and…

Scott Burchill is lecturer in international relations at Deakin University, and comments regularly on the war in Iraq for Webdiary. The failure…

Sometimes in politics the moral high ground can only be reached by wading through the lowlands of public amnesia. Reacting to the…

The attacks on the United States in September 2001, the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and further terrorist attacks around the…

Delivering the 25th annual Menzies lecture last October, foreign minister Alexander Downer declared that “bit by bit, leaders of governments that suppress…

Having failed to produce or fabricate an Iraq-Al Qaeda connection, and in the absence of any WMD actually being found by UNMOVIC’s…