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America - Andrew Stephen takes a black view

  • 20 June 2005

Black Americans cheered Michael Jackson's acquittal because to them he represents an underclass oppressed for centuries by police, courts and juries

America - Andrew Stephen suffers a summit anti-climax

  • 13 June 2005

The myth of the special relationship between the US and Britain, as shown by the Blair-Bush love-in, is exploded by America's new affection for the Aussies

America - Andrew Stephen wonders where dead GIs go

  • 06 June 2005

The war has become a distant pageant. Once in a while, those who fight it are the subjects of a schmaltzy celebration; otherwise they are ignored

America - Andrew Stephen nails the Newsweek myth

  • 30 May 2005

We think we know the story: Newsweek reported - wrongly - that copies of the Koran were flushed down toilets and people died in the riots that resulted. That's not what happened

America - Andrew Stephen fears the worst for US airlines

  • 23 May 2005

The other day, for the first time in hundreds of flights across the Atlantic, I was charged for headsets and drinks - the airlines are bankrupt but, remarkably, still in business

America - Andrew Stephen watches TV with the White House

  • 16 May 2005

Having frightened the mainstream press, and networks such as CBS, into compliance with its right-wing agenda, the Bush administration now has public broadcasting in its sights

America - Andrew Stephen exposes a new McCarthyism

  • 02 May 2005

Not content with controlling Congress and the presidency, the Republicans now want the judges to be "people of faith". A new McCarthyism is under way

America - Andrew Stephen smells White House corruption

  • 25 April 2005

Strident, crass and sanctimonious, the scandal-ridden Tom DeLay, Republican leader of the House of Representatives, defines the Bush era

America - Andrew Stephen reveals how Bush nobbled the press

  • 18 April 2005

The new style of government here involves paying journalists and broadcasters to mention Bush policies favourably and paying PR companies to plant fake "news reports"

America - Andrew Stephen finds Catholics moving rightwards

  • 11 April 2005

With many pharmacists refusing to accept, or even confiscating, women's birth-control prescriptions, right-wing Catholic activism is beginning to permeate this country

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Two sides of the Coin

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The Beatles never formed

What if .... the Beatles had never formed

Will Self

Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

Iraq war

We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

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