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    The left and the right slug it out

    / May 28, 2010 / Leave a comment
    For all his talk, is Barack Obama merely perpetuating George W Bush’s foreign policy? Has a softened approach to Iran yielded any benefits whatsoever for America? Was scrapping the European missile defence shield a major strategic blunder? All are questions to which answers might be expected at an Intelligence Squared...
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    Prospect recommends: Green Zone

    / March 12, 2010 / Leave a comment
    Green Zone dir Paul Greengrass. On general release from 12th March Last year, British production company Working Title strayed beyond its natural comfort zone with dramas—notably Frost/Nixon and State Of Play—that failed to enhance parent company Universal’s bottom line. Paul Greengrass’s Green Zone might have been another such case until...
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    Prospect Recommends: Point Omega

    / March 5, 2010 / Leave a comment
    Point Omega by Don DeLillo (Picador, £14.99) Don DeLillo’s short, very odd but oddly brilliant new novel is set in just two locations. One is a room in a New York gallery where an unnamed man obsessively watches a video installation, 24 Hour Psycho, consisting of repeat screenings of Hitchcock’s...
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    Modern warfare: a remnant of our ancestral memory

    / December 14, 2009 / 3 Comments
    George Galloway and Alan Greenspan agree: the war in Iraq was all about oil. But perhaps they were wrong. In last weekend’s Iraqi oil field auction, US companies were almost utterly iced-out, despite their government’s 100,000 boots on the ground. Russian, Chinese, Dutch, Angolan, and Malaysian oil companies all won...
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    From Iraq, a defence of beauty

    / November 5, 2009 / 1 Comment
    Poverty, for the outsider, is often picturesque. But not here. This neighbourhood on the outskirts of Amara in southern Iraq has got to be the most hideous place I have ever seen: garbage, dirt, battered metal carcasses of “dead” cars, deep holes gouged out of the ground, dusty children wearing filthy...
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    Shut up, Paul

    / September 28, 2009 / 2 Comments
    Paul Wolfowitz, one of the leading architects of the Iraq debacle, has an article in today’s Financial Times, telling world leaders what to do about Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Surprisingly, nowhere in the article does he say, “Of course I was spectacularly wrong last time anyone asked me my opinion, but...
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    How not to capture Osama bin Laden

    / September 10, 2009 / Leave a comment
    Six days after the attack on the World Trade Centre, President George W. Bush declared that the capture of Osama bin Laden was his prime objective. “I want justice,” he said. “There’s an old poster out west that I recall that said ‘wanted dead or alive’”. He also said that...
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