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Roger Garaudy


Roger Garaudy

Roger Garaudy

In one spring almost a decade ago, I was having coffee with two French intellectuals at a Parisian café when we were distracted by a commotion. Several patrons of the café started moving from their tables as if hit by an invisible hand as an elderly man approached,...
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The Occupation of Iraq


The Occupation of Iraq

The Occupation of Iraq

Reading this engaging book is like watching a trapeze act. The writer Ali A Allawi is an American-educated Iraqi politician who served as Defense and Finance minister in post-liberation governments in Baghdad. Excluded from the new Cabinet of Prime Minister Nuri...
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THE NEXT ATTACK


THE NEXT ATTACK

THE NEXT ATTACK

There are two things about which this book’s authors are certain. The first is that the United States is going to be attacked in a more deadly way than the 11 September 2001 raids on New York and Washington. The second is that President George W Bush’s so-called war...

A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962

If President George W Bush’s political enemies are to be believed, the one thing he has never done is read a book. So, it might come as a surprise that Bush spent part of his holiday last Christmas reading a thick book sent to him as a present by former...
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Frontline Pakistan


Frontline Pakistan

Frontline Pakistan

Early in his book, Zahid Hussain, a well-known Pakistani journalist, labels his native land as “the most ungovernable country in the world.” He then describes President Pervez Musharraf as a military dictator who, by siding with the United States in the...
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Values in a Time of Upheaval


Values in a Time of Upheaval

Values in a Time of Upheaval

Although Pope Benedict does not quite tell us what “upheaval” he is referring to in the title of his new book, it soon become clear that he observes the present condition of mankind as a whole and Europe in particular with a degree of pessimism unexpected...