Haroon's devlog

The video Kony 2012 has been a mega-hit on YouTube, with 21 million hits. It is also deeply, deeply problematic for anyone engaged in inter...

Omar is a 17 year old Somali living in a refugee camp in Tunisia. A short film by Nick Francis and Marc Silver.

A week ago I transited through Johannesburg -- my first time in South Africa. I found it quite ironic that I arrived in O.R. Tambo Internat...

This is an excellent post on the myths and realities around the Tiananmen events of 20 years ago. Brian's blog

An excellent personal reflection by Richard Jackson on the meaning of the death of Osama bin Laden, published in The Hindu , India's bes...

An excellent post from my former colleague, Paul Kellogg, on the sources of US financial instability. PolEconAnalysis: Message to the U.S. –...

From Jairus Banaji, this is a typically astute and erudite analysis of the Maoist insurgency in central India, written partly in response to...

This morning saw the biggest leak of classified military files since the Pentagon Papers. In The New York Times , The Guardian and Der Spi...

An excellent piece of reportage to place this week's elections in Sudan in context has been produced by The Economist . Sudan is far to...

More from The Economist's excellent videographics: in 5 minutes anyone can understand why the world's worst war since World War II ...

If this testimony impressed you, as it does me, learn more by visiting the website of Iraq Veterans Against the War: www.ivaw.org

Earlier this week US President Barack Obama announced, after a long and often heated debate within the US administration, that an additional...

Last week there was near euphoria around the world when Barack Obama was inaugurated as 44th President of the United States. I must confess...

From the Financial Times of 23 January 2009: 'Sabah Abu Halema lies on her bed in Gaza's Shifa hospital, her arms and legs covered ...

The Israeli Defence Force's air and ground assault on Gaza has been disproportionately deadly on one group of Palestinians: children. I...

Over the course of the summer, there have been a number of major global stories with international development dimensions: but one in partic...

This weblog has been very quiet, for several months. The pressures of work have not allowed me to follow up several issues on which I have ...

The events that have swept Kenya since the rigged re-election of President Mwai Kibaki on 27 December offer a deeply unsettling reminder of...

Readers of this weblog will know that I was deeply hostile to the invasion of Iraq, that I remain staunchly opposed to its conduct, and that...