Articles by Seumas Milne

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Now the Truth Emerges: How the US Fuelled the Rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 16 Nov 2015

The sectarian terror group won’t be defeated by the western states that incubated it in the first place. American forces bomb one set of rebels while backing another in Syria.

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The Davos Oligarchs Are Right to Fear the World They’ve Made
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 2 Feb 2015

The billionaires and corporate oligarchs who met in Davos last week are getting worried about inequality. It might be hard to stomach that the overlords of a system that has delivered the widest global economic gulf in human history should be handwringing about the consequences of their own actions. Escalating inequality is the work of a global elite that will resist every challenge to its vested interests.

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Sending Troops to Protect Dictators Threatens All of Us
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 15 Dec 2014

CIA torture, crushing democracy and Britain’s new military base in Bahrain all deliver a toxic message. The heavily censored summary of the US senate torture report turns the stomach in its litany of criminal barbarity unleashed by the CIA on real and imagined US enemies.

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Cuba’s Extraordinary Global Medical Record Shames the US Blockade
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 8 Dec 2014

Four months into the Ebola emergency that has devastated West Africa, Cuba leads the world in direct medical support to fight the epidemic. The US and Britain have sent thousands of troops and promised aid that has yet to materialise. From Ebola to earthquakes, Havana’s doctors have saved millions. Obama must lift this embargo.

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It’s Not Russia That’s Pushed Ukraine to the Brink of War
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 5 May 2014

The attempt to lever Kiev into the western camp by ousting an elected leader made conflict certain. It could be a threat to us all.

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An Attack on Syria Will Only Spread the War and Killing
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 2 Sep 2013

All the signs are they’re going to do it again. The attack on Syria now being planned by the US and its allies will be the ninth direct western military intervention in an Arab or Muslim country in 15 years. Depending how you cut the cake, the looming bombardment follows onslaughts on Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Mali, as well as a string of murderous drone assaults on Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan.

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Egypt, Brazil, Turkey: Without Politics, Protest Is at the Mercy of the Elites
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 8 Jul 2013

From Egypt to Brazil, street action is driving change, but organisation is essential if it’s not to be hijacked or disarmed.

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Think There’s No Alternative? Latin America Has a Few
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 25 Feb 2013

Not only have leaders from Ecuador to Venezuela delivered huge social gains – they keep winning elections too. Given what’s been delivered to the majority, it’s hardly surprising Latin America’s social ­democratic and socialist ­governments keep getting re-elected.

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Don’t Lose Sight of Why the US Is Out To Get Julian Assange
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 27 Aug 2012

Ecuador is pressing for a deal that offers justice to Assange’s accusers – and essential protection for whistleblowers. Considering he made his name with the biggest leak of secret government documents in history, you might imagine there would be at least some residual concern for Julian Assange among those trading in the freedom of information business. But the virulence of British media hostility towards the WikiLeaks founder is now unrelenting.

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Secret Papers Reveal Slow Death of Middle East Peace Process
Seumas Milne and Ian Black, Middle East editor – The Guardian, 24 Jan 2011

The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the Middle East conflict has revealed that Palestinian negotiators secretly agreed to accept Israel’s annexation of all but one of the settlements built illegally in occupied East Jerusalem. This unprecedented proposal was one of a string of concessions that will cause shockwaves among Palestinians and in the wider Arab world.

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The Transformation of Latin America is a Global Advance
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 23 Aug 2010

The radical tide is about to be put to the test in Brazil and Venezuela. If support holds, it will have lessons for all of us.

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THE LESSONS OF IRAQ HAVE BEEN IGNORED. THE TARGET IS NOW IRAN
Seumas Milne - ZNet, 5 Feb 2010

The US military buildup in the Gulf and Blair’s promotion of war against Tehran are a warning of yet another catastrophe.We were ¬supposed to have learned the lessons of the Iraq war. That’s what Britain’s Chilcot inquiry is meant to be all about. But the signs from the Middle East are that it could be […]

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HAITI’S SUFFERING IS A RESULT OF CALCULATED IMPOVERISHMENT
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 26 Jan 2010

Haiti’s poverty is treated as some baffling quirk of history or culture, when in reality it is the direct consequence of a uniquely brutal relationship with the outside world — notably the US, France and Britain — stretching back centuries.  There is no relief for the people of Haiti, it seems, even in their hour […]

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TERROR IS THE PRICE OF SUPPORT FOR DESPOTS AND DICTATORS
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 12 Jan 2010

Egypt’s complicity in Gaza’s siege underlines the role of western support for such regimes in the spread of war. If an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor had gone on hunger strike in support of a besieged people in another part of the world, and hundreds of mostly western protesters had been stoned and beaten by police, you […]

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CHOMSKY: ‘US FOREIGN POLICY IS STRAIGHT OUT OF THE MAFIA’
Seumas Milne – The Guardian, 8 Nov 2009

Noam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. A philosopher of language and political campaigner of towering academic reputation, who as good as invented modern linguistics, he is entertained by presidents, addresses the United Nations general assembly and commands a mass international audience. When he spoke in London last […]

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THE WEST WIDENS THE FATAH-HAMAS SPLIT
Seumas Milne, 28 Jul 2009

Palestinian unity is essential for any peace deal – but the US, Britain and the EU are playing a central role in preventing it It should be obvious that no settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict is going to stick unless it commands broad support or acceptance on both sides. That is especially true of the […]

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RIMINGTON IS RIGHT. THIS IS A RECIPE FOR CREATING TERRORISTS
Seumas Milne, 25 Feb 2009

New Labour’s sins in the war on terror are catching up with it, but ministers want to shift blame on to the Muslim community. I never imagined I would say this, but Stella Rimington is right. The former head of MI5 who made her career running the security service’s dirtiest operations in the 1980s, against […]

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