by Phillip Knightley | May 7, 2003 | News
Despatches from the frontline in the war on terrorPaul McGeough is a distinguished member of a fast-vanishing band of journalists, the roving foreign correspondent. Once upon a time, every newspaper had at least one. In the golden age, the ’60s and ’70s,...
by Joseph Cirincione | May 7, 2003 | News
Origins of regime change in IraqLong before September 11, before the first inspections in Iraq had started, a small group of influential officials and experts in Washington were calling for regime change in Iraq. Some never wanted to end the 1991 war. Many are now...
by John Monks, Jon Cruddas | Apr 5, 2003 | News
Return of the working classJon CruddasA truly shocking acknowledgement of the realities of contracting-out was contained in last week’s leaked Cabinet Office memo on the two-tier workforce. While contracting-out has led to a reduction in staff numbers,...
by Bruce Childs | Mar 13, 2003 | News, President's perspective
President’s perspectiveThe Howard government’s pro-war position means that the need for citizens to maintain a vigilant, critical stance in relation to our media cannot be overstated. The most recent report to the UN Security Council on Iraq’s...
by John Pilger | Mar 13, 2003 | News
The First Casualty: Introduction to the revised editionWhen I read the first edition of this remarkable book twenty-five years ago, I was struck by the following quotations. During the First World War, Prime Minister David Lloyd George told C P Scott, editor of the...
by Fred Pearce | Mar 11, 2003 | News
Treasures in the Ecuadorian AndesHigh in the Ecuadorian Andes are cloud-covered peaks that no satellite has ever observed and no cartographer has ever mapped. Up there somewhere, rumour has it; the Incas hid their treasure when Spanish conquistadors invaded 500 years...
