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Making poor nations rich

review by Elisa Nay

"The best way to help the poor is to achieve as high a level of economic freedom as possible."

All the President's Men

by Laurence O'Dwyer

[ march 08 ]

In Haiti, "unemployment is running at around 80%, corruption is so much a part of life that they might well hand out MBAs in it, and gangs like the Cannibal Army and the Little Machete Army still control the red zones."

The dubious world of religion and politics

by David V Barrett

[ january 08 ]

Which religious group really put George W Bush into the White House? The answer is not the usual suspects...

The AK Party, the failure of Islamism and traditional Turkish politics

by Ziya Meral

[ january 08 ]

How did the Western commentariat get the recent Turkish election so wrong?

The trials of Omar Khadr, Guantánamo's "child soldier"

by Andy Worthington

[ november 07 ]

"Dozens of children were held in Guantánamo, and, although few were treated as badly as Omar, only a handful were ever segregated from the prison's adult population, and treated with something close to appropriate care."

Ode to the sea

by Ibrahim al-Rubaish

[ october 07 ]

A poem by a former Guantánamo detainee, taken from Poems From Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak

Poetry and politics at Guantánamo

by Andy Worthington

[ october 07 ]

An interview with Marc Falkoff, editor of Poems From Guantánamo.

A roadmap by any other name

by Paul French

[ august 07 ]

Washington and Pyongyang appear to be moving towards bilateral agreement.

The Modern Panopticon; or, The Snitch's Charter

by Garrick Alder

[ august 06 ]

How has a massive project with privacy implication for British citizens slipped under the media's radar? And who, exactly, needs a sanity check?

Israel's "new Middle East"

by Tanya Reinhart

[ august 06 ]

"For the Israeli military leadership, not only the Lebanese and the Palestinians, but also the Israelis are just pawns in some big military vision."