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Before the War

Tariq Ali, 24 March 2022

... longer a zero-sum game’.Other paths could have been taken. An intelligence report presented to Condoleezza Rice in 2008 included this warning:Ukrainian entry into Nato is the brightest of all red lines for the Russian elite (not just Putin). In more than two and a half years of conversations with key Russian players, from knuckle-draggers in the dark ...

How the War Will End

Karim Makdisi: Israel’s war on Lebanon, 3 August 2006

... them, though France, China and Russia at least have made reassuring gestures. George Bush and Condoleezza Rice have backed Israel’s right to ‘self-defence’ and blamed Hizbullah’s very existence for the current violence. Meanwhile Tony Blair – in an ironic reversal of the Blair Doctrine, which calls for intervention for humanitarian reasons ...

On Mykonos

Alexander Clapp: On Mykonos , 16 July 2015

... said. ‘Try serving brunch in gladiator sandals,’ one of the Tagoo waiters shot back. In August Condoleezza Rice stayed a night at the Grace. Weeks beforehand I was summoned to Kostas’s office and asked about her visit. ‘She may want Dr Pepper,’ I said. A six-pack was despatched from Athens. We agreed against having the Herald Tribune delivered ...

Short Cuts

Thomas Jones: Kicking Dick Cheney, 2 August 2007

... of its fiercest internal brawls’ – Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld on one side, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice on the other – ‘before Bush ratified the policy that Cheney had declared: the Geneva Conventions would not apply to al-Qaida or Taliban fighters captured on the battlefield.’ Since the War Crimes Act of 1996, breaching the Geneva ...

The Fastidious President

David Bromwich: The Matter with Obama, 18 November 2010

... Cheney and his circle for an attack on Iran. It is generally supposed that Gates, together with Condoleezza Rice, held Cheney off and gave Bush the institutional backing to resist him. Obama by all reports has become friendly with Gates – they share a certain reserve and an image of themselves as temperate and moderate-minded public men. He has shown ...

Beijing Envy

Joshua Kurlantzick: China in Africa, 5 July 2007

China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise 
by Ian Taylor.
Routledge, 233 pp., £75, August 2006, 0 415 39740 5
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China and the Developing World: Beijing’s Strategy for the 21st Century 
edited by Joshua Eisenman, Eric Heginbotham and Derek Mitchell.
Sharpe, 232 pp., $29.95, April 2007, 978 0 7656 1713 2
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China’s African Policy 
Foreign Ministry of the People’s Republic of China, January 2006Show More
China’s Expanding Role in Africa: Implications for the United States 
by Bates Gill, Chin-hao Huang and J. Stephen Morrison.
Centre for Strategic and International Studies, February 2007
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Friends and Interests: China’s Distinctive Links with Africa 
by Barry Sautman.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, April 2006
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African Perspectives on China in Africa 
edited by Firoze Manji and Stephen Marks.
Fahamu, 174 pp., £11.95, March 2007, 978 0 9545637 3 8
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Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier 
by Harry Broadman.
World Bank, 391 pp., $20, November 2006, 0 8213 6835 4
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... and Britain haven’t got much of a record of supporting human rights in Africa. Only last year Condoleezza Rice warmly welcomed the leader of Equatorial Guinea, a petrostate where the security forces reportedly gang-rape prisoners and the elite squirrels money away in Washington bank accounts while half the population lives in poverty. As China ...

Diary

August Kleinzahler: The Doomsday Boys, 17 August 2006

... Kali’ in Gunga Din. Who hired this guy, anyway? There was a curious and unsettling picture of Condoleezza Rice in the papers, playing a Brahms sonata at a meeting of regional leaders in Kuala Lumpur. She looks stricken and strangely adolescent, with the terrified smile of an 18-year-old with stage fright. As this war escalates, the photographs of ...

Diary

Tariq Ali: Al-Jazeera, 22 August 2002

... and told that the channel would be delighted to interview the American President or his nominees: Condoleezza Rice, Tony Blair and Colin Powell were allowed unlimited time to explain their point of view. The effect of these broadcasts on Arab public opinion was non-existent. When the bombing of Afghanistan began, al-Jazeera was the only TV network ...

Ready for a Rematch

Michael Byers: The Bushes and Saddam Hussein, 8 February 2001

... only to support clear political objectives and with sufficient resources to ensure success. As Condoleezza Rice, the new National Security Advisor, has explained, prevention, peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention are not part of the plan. ‘We don’t need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten.’ Yet easily winnable military ...

SH @ same time

Andrew Cockburn: Rumsfeld, 31 March 2011

Known and Unknown: A Memoir 
by Donald Rumsfeld.
Sentinel, 815 pp., £25, February 2011, 978 1 59523 067 6
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... with the president (unbeknownst to the secretary of state), he begrudged others the same access, Condoleezza Rice especially. Among senior security officials, he notes (through gritted teeth), ‘only the national security adviser works in the White House and has routine daily access to the president … Her personal access to and affinity for President ...

Was it murder?

Deborah Friedell: Disaster Medicine, 3 July 2014

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital 
by Sheri Fink.
Atlantic, 558 pp., £14.99, February 2014, 978 1 78239 374 0
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... a planeload of Venezuelan aid workers. Fidel Castro offered to send doctors. On 1 September, Condoleezza Rice was spotted in Manhattan shoe-shopping at Ferragamo: a symbol of a government that didn’t care. Inspired by Anna Pou, the television show Boston Legal put a fictional doctor on trial for killing patients during Katrina. Her guilt is never ...

‘Wisely I decided to say nothing’

Ross McKibbin: Jack Straw, 22 November 2012

Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor 
by Jack Straw.
Macmillan, 582 pp., £20, September 2012, 978 1 4472 2275 0
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... of America’s making; or of one part of the American administration: he excludes Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice from blame. John Bolton, however, is one of the few people in public life he says he would ‘be happy not to see again’. At the time it was thought that Straw wasn’t as gung-ho as Blair. He says that he felt a ‘powerful sense of ...

More than a Million Names

Mattathias Schwartz: American Intelligence, 16 June 2016

Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror 
by Michael Hayden.
Penguin, 464 pp., £21.99, February 2016, 978 1 59420 656 6
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... positives is minuscule. Hayden​ never quite made it into the inner circle of Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice and George Tenet, CIA director until 2004. By the time he became CIA director, the job had lost some of its importance. Post-9/11 reforms had handed many of its biggest perks, including daily access to the president, to the director of national ...

A Hologram for President

Eliot Weinberger, 30 August 2012

... In Tampa, the Republicans managed to put some minority speakers on the stage – most notably Condoleezza Rice – but the crowd in the hall itself was a sea of milk. Nationally, the Republicans are 90 per cent white. Demographics are shrinking the Republican Party, which is not merely the last fortress of white people. Like Japanese soldiers ...

Diary

Anna Neistat: In Chechnya, 6 July 2006

... started to express tentative concerns about the reversal of democracy in Russia. Recent remarks by Condoleezza Rice and Angela Merkel, as well as official statements by the leadership of the EU, have been critical of Russia’s attacks on civil society, including the doing away with political opposition, media censorship and the crackdown on NGOs. But the ...

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