The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... renting tribal leaders will buy peace in Afghanistan is a pipedream. Afghanistan Iraq Middle East Seumas Milne guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Seumas Milne, the Guardian's most left wing senior staffer is the first London -based commentator I've noticed to pay serious attention to the state of our politics for a long time. Today he discusses the links between the rise of republican violence and the Stormont stasis. He begins with an excellent point about why current events should command wider attention. “From the way...
Neil Clark (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... actually been rewarded for getting things so badly wrong. Melanie Phillips, and not John Pilger or Seumas Milne, is on Question Time tonight.
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
As Eamonn recorded last night , Sinn Féin are apparently in Downing St urging the British (and Irish) governments to interfere in the “indigenous” deal [ “Let no-one interfere in that”! - Ed] Indeed . That would be a “constitutional nonsense”. Meanwhile, keeping up that “maximum pressure” , Seumas Milne in the Guardian helpfully [To...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
... the threat would be folly. Northern Ireland UK security and terrorism Ireland Sinn Féin Seumas Milne guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2009 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... claims "hangs in the air". Derrick Cameron Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire • As Seumas Milne suggests ( Comment , 19 November), Labour's proposals in the Queen's speech will achieve little. It is clear to everyone except Labour MPs that the vast majority of British people simply do not want Gordon Brown as prime minister. As a Labour supporter, I have forgiven them for...
War in Context (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... is incensed by leaks on its Afghanistan policy that didn’t originate in the White House. []By Seumas Milne, The Guardian, November 23, 2009So now we know the secret weapon of the the new western plan to pacify Afghanistan: cash. As President Obama prepares to announce the expected dispatch of tens of thousands more troops to America’s eight-year-old war and occupation, US and British...
