Politics: International Politics

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Gaza under fire

By John Pilger

Every war Israel has waged since 1948 has had the same objective: expulsion of the native people and theft of more land. But why are we in the west silent on this truth?

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Pilgrimage to nowhere

By Fatima Bhutto
08 January

A year on from Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Fatima Bhutto visits the family mausoleum and reflects on the poisonous legacy of her late aunt, a woman
"without principles"

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Books to look out for in 2009

By Ian Irvine and Daniel Trilling
08 January

The New Statesman's selection of what's hot in the coming year

Cable wades into Chagos injustice row

By Sean Carey
07 January

Senior Lib Dem Vince Cable has thrown his weight behind a new cross party group that aims to persuade David Miliband to right a very old British injustice

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Israel's targets in Gaza

By Ben White
06 January

Ben White looks at some of the objects of Israel's military onslaught in Gaza - an attack that has already cost hundreds of civilian lives

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No time for comedy...

By Jonathan Calder
06 January

The economic crisis, the relentless attacks on Gaza and a very real threat to trainspotting. Jonathan Calder returns with his unique perspective of the world

Somalia nearing disaster

By Jeremy Sare
19 December

Unthinkable as it may seem Somalia looks set to plunge into a wave of even greater chaos when Ethiopian and African Union troops withdraw later this month