So we are in topsy-turvy land. Obama is acting as the Prez should act, if he’s the genuine leader of an imperialist power.
George Bush Jr
In the wake of war crimes
The blogosphere reacts to President’s Obama release of the Bush torture memos.
Guantanamo: be the evil you want to see defeated
Mahatma Gandhi once said: “Be the change you want to see”. But in George W Bush’s so-called “war on terror”, the extreme opposite applied, writes Irfan Yusuf.
Bob Carr bats for his mate Conrad Black
Why would the former Labor premier of NSW appeal for the freedom of such an undeserving swindler as Conrad Black? Alex Mitchell writes.
The Humpty Dumpty gang should take their great fall over Guantanamo
Throughout the Bush years, politicians and the media, both in Australia and abroad, have been prepared to play brazen Alice in Wonderland games with definitions, writes Jeff Sparrow
Bush’s final press conference
Watch George W. Bush’s final press conference.
Business briefs: Jobs market mayhem … Bush’s nightmare
Jobs market mayhem … economists to blame … Bush’s economic nightmare
Bush’s final presser: A Crikey wrap
Outgoing US President George W Bush has given his final press conference, defending his record but conceding he made many mistakes.
Bush’s final presser: A Crikey wrap
Outgoing US President George W Bush has given his final press conference, defending his record but conceding he made many mistakes.
Farewell to Dubya, worst president ever
Our laughter at the idiot who was cunning enough to steal the US presidency died in our throats as he set about inflicting profound damage on the rest of the world, writes Bernard Keane.
Farewell to Dubya, worst president ever
Our laughter at the idiot who was cunning enough to steal the US presidency died in our throats as he set about inflicting profound damage on the rest of the world, writes Bernard Keane.
Rundle: Dubya’s last days
Dubya is almost jaunty these days, as the sand runs out of the hourglass on his disastrous reign, writes Guy Rundle.
The Howard Years: kickass guy action
This old guy, he’s seriously old, like he’s now nothing but eyebrows, but he’s tough and he’s in his mansion where he hangs out and he’s thinking back to some adventure, writes Bernard Keane.
Bush’s exit interview
George Bush has looked back on his eight years in the White House with an interview on ABC News.
Rudd, Bush, Sarkozy, Howard… where did the love go?
Had enough of G20-speakerphone-dinner-that-wasn’t-a-dinner-Dubya’s-an-idiot-no-Rudd’s-an-idiot gate yet? At Crikey we’re just getting warmed up, writes Bernard Keane.
Mungo: Get off the pot Chris Mitchell
If the situation is even half as serious as Mitchell claims, then he owes it to the Australian public to tell them the truth. Unfortunately this may get in the way of a good beat up, but that’s journalism, writes Mungo MacCallum.
G20 gaffe: Australian public say “whatever”
People, it seems, don’t want to know that their Prime Minister has an ego so large it unbalances his judgement. Or perhaps they know and don’t care, writes Bernard Keane.
The Oz is ducking G20 phone call story
Today “Cut & Paste” has an airswing at Crikey over the G20 phone call — or as 4BC’s Michael Smith tartly terms it, “Speakerphonegate”.
