This gesture could be part of a plan to repair Blair's image, but some say his motivation is irrelevant because the money will be so useful. Let's test the theory, says Mark Steel. |
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"I was determined not to be blind any more. I read about the history of the conflict and began to realise I had been duped. This wasn't a war about liberation, it was about strategic influence; about economics and mineral wealth." |
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Don't be taken in by claims that the last US "combat" troops left Iraq two weeks ahead of schedule and the occupation is over, says Robert Fisk. |
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The Karzai's administration in Afghanistan is fundamentalist and it's attitude towards women is largely indistinguishable from the Taliban. |
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Barack Obama and everyone else in his spin machine should go to Iraq and look a child in the eyes and tell that child that seven years of war in Iraq has been a success. |
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The Israel boycott has seen unprecedented growth after the onslaught on Gaza and the attack on the flotilla. People of conscience round the world have crossed a threshold. |
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There were cheers and smiles in Helmand Province when David Beckham met with hundreds of soldiers, but one soldier he met isn't cheering or smiling anymore. |
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Tariq Ali says it is time for Obama to abandon all pretences used to justify a war that can only lead to more deaths but no solution. An exit strategy is now desperately needed. |
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More civilians are being killed in Afghanistan than ever before. Survivors of a Nato airstrike on 23 July 2010 describe in this video how 52 civilians were killed in their village. |
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The US government and military are making ominous threats against Wikileaks, following its release of over 76,000 Pentagon documenting countless US war crimes. |
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The Iraq war has been a historic political and strategic failure for the US, writes Seumas Milne, so its rebranding the occupation with a form of outsourced semi-colonial regime. |
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How could we be so savage as to turn our backs on Aisha? says Time magazine. The war is once again being justified as necessary to "protect" Afghan women. |
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Tony Blair's lies that took Britain into the illegal Iraq war are proven beyond dispute. Is it wishful thinking to believe that one day he will be collared for his crimes? asks John Pilger. |
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The already alarming levels of racism in Israel are on the increase, and the demand for proof of loyalty is no longer confined to Palestinian citizens, but directed at Jewish ones, too. |
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Face reality, says Patrick Cockburn: the US-Nato exit strategy for Afghanistan is doomed. The only viable option is to start negotiations with the Taliban now. |
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Barack Obama says he's ending US combat operations in Iraq. It's not true. He's just replacing uniformed soldiers with private paramilitaries. |
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Alex Thomson reports: Operation Black Prince is yet another ludicrous public relations stunt posing as a major offensive by the British military in Afghanistan. |
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A war without end or purpose, about to enter it's tenth year, is killing Afghan civilians and invading soldiers in greater numbers than ever.
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Guardian film-maker Sean Smith's film and diary show the reality of a pointless war that Barack Obama and David Cameron say must continue for years to come. |
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Lobby your MP on Afghanistan

Parliament will debate Afghanistan on Thursday 9 September. Please lobby your MP to attend the debate and to vote for all British troops to come home.
Lobby your MP here...
Wrong war, wrong time, wrong cause
Former leader of the Liberal Democrats Lord Paddy Ashdown debates the Afghanistan war with Guardian journalist Seumas Milne. See debate video...
Should we stay or should we go?
Former commander of UK forces in Afghanistan Colonel Richard Kemp and Labour MP Paul Flynn make the case for and against bringing the troops home from Afghanistan. Read the arguments...
CND Campaign

Lobby defence minister Liam Fox online: Trident nuclear weapons must be included in defence review. Details...
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