Interview on the US withdrawal from Iraq

Teaching a course on strategy to a group of 12-year-olds was very helpful. Perhaps teaching any topic to 12-year-olds is helpful to a ‘teacher' trying to get to grips with what it is being taught. Among other things, I gradually realized that th...

Real Utopia is a wide-ranging book that can deliver for the open-minded reader. It relates ideas and actions that develop naturally out of commonly held values, but that can still bring surprise, the shock of revelation, the rearrangement of famil...

The US claims that Iran supplies Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS) to Iraqi...

US and British support for Israel's onslaught on Lebanon and Gaza is both diplomatic and military. In the din, the media are scrupulously ignoring ceasefire proposals from the Lebanese Government and Hezbollah. THE BUSH/BLAIR 'PEACE PLAN' OR 'DEL...

 { This paper is being prepared for the June 1 - 7 2006 first Z Sessions on Vision and Strategy, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. These sessions gathe...

 THE BIG QUESTION There had been British Muslims who have fought for al-Qaeda before, and there had been British Muslims who have carried out, or attempted to carry out, suicide bombings before. But Thursday 7 July was the first suicide bombing ...

With the death of King Fahd, Saudi Arabia is the main topic of discussion in today's newspapers. Below we fill in some of the gaps in the British coverage. THE WAHHABI-SAUDI CONNECTION The central fact of Saudi Arabia is the merger between the r...

Why? Iraq

INTRODUCTION Tony Blair thinks that the controversy over the Attorney General's legal advice is a 'damp squib'. His ministers struggle to put out the raging fire - which has torched their election campaign plans - by offering up distortions and l...