Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
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Brass hue to silver lining of a new Egypt
Paul McGeough An all's-well presumption in some quarters on the Egyptian presidential election is bizarre.
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Still waiting for Western civilisation
Paul McGeough Murder is disturbing - whether the victim is a secular political leader in the fraught, post-revolutionary chaos of Tunisia or a kid at school in the sensible and stable, we-know-how-to-do-it US.
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The road to democracy was ever thus
Paul McGeough What was going down at the Jones's over Christmas?
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Obama changes course between courses
Paul McGeough For a time there, it looked like business as usual in the Middle East.
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Rash Israel lights Arab Spring powder keg
Paul McGeough The Middle East this week? Think Colorado in July and the movie megaplex massacre.
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Obama has to factor Arab Spring into reaction to Israeli-Hamas crisis
Paul McGeough WASHINGTON: We have yet to see the mettle of Barack Obama in his second term as US President, but it will be intriguing to watch how he sustains Washington's support for Israel in the coming four...
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US talks reform from comfort of fence
Paul McGeough Amid historic hoopla, something often happens that comes back to bite someone on the bum.
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Light the touch paper and stand back
Paul McGeough What the hell was that? In a perfect global storm: massive over-reach by crackpot Christian fundamentalists in California collided with what may have been a lucky break for the remnants of al-Qaeda's...
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Egyptian generals let Arab Spring wilt
Paul McGeough The jig was up in Cairo when Barack Obama coughed up to the generals a cool $1.5 billion.
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Postage stamp nation as global ringmaster
Paul McGeough The word ''bluff'' gets an outing in analysis these days. Is Benjamin Netanyahu bluffing about an attack on Iran?
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Authoritarian habits prove hard to break
Paul McGeough If the rise of the Egyptian Islamists gives us a few laughs, the refusal by the Cairo generals to relinquish power is the stuff of tears.
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A fledgling democracy needs support, not suspicion
Paul McGeough AS IF they do not have enough on their plate, the biggest challenge for Egyptians after dislodging Hosni Mubarak is to prove that their uprising is not a repeat of the 1979 Iranian revolution, which...
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WikiLeaks reveals unreliable war cries and chequebook democracy
Paul McGeough THE danger in WikiLeaks' dump of reams of super-sensitive cables from Washington's worldwide listening posts is not merely that the game has been revealed but how it might play out in future.
