Bill Bowring is professor of human rights and international law at London Metropolitan University. He considers the merits of the legal justification invoked by the United States and Britain in their attempts to win approval for a possible military campaign against Iraq.
Archive for February, 2003
Kuro5hin reports that the CNN.com transcript of Hans Blix’s February 14th presentation to the U.N. Security Council appears to have been edited. To quote Kuro5hin: “The excised text consists of 878 words, but they are words that matter.” However, CNN should get the benefit of the doubt, as the cut does seem to have been made accidentally.
Everyone has a favourite theory on what happened. Some are sane. The rest have been collected on New World Disorder for your edification.
Pretty pictures, pretty much. Digital art from a talented digital artist.
Timothy Garton Ash – director of the European Studies Centre at St. Antony’s College, Oxford – weighs in on the differences and similarities between anti-European Americans and anti-American Europeans. “So there is, in significant quarters of American life, a disillusionment and irritation with Europe, a growing contempt for and even hostility toward ‘the Europeans’, which, at the extreme, merits the label ‘anti-Europeanism.’”
