Paul McGeough
Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.
US war for oil lacks a punchline
Paul McGeough 'What's the difference between a duck,'' my father would ask us as kids.
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War of words is Israel's best defence
Paul McGeough Is Israel actually going to war - or merely threatening to go to war?
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Why Obama faces a hopeless war in Syria
Paul McGeough ''Sensible'' doesn't cut it when women and children are being murdered on YouTube.
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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.
Alexander leaves us on a downer
Paul McGeough A great week for huffin'-'n'-puffin', what? First, Alexander Downer takes an airbrush to history. And then, more gobsmackery by our top soldier, on what he ''always knew'' was a raw deal for the...
OPINION
UN fails to get its hands clean in Haiti
Paul McGeough And they wonder why people throw bombs. The United Nations rejects any guilt or responsibility for an outbreak of cholera in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that flattened Haiti, despite...
Sex trumps torture and corruption
Paul McGeough This is about carnal relations, not global security - got it? We're talking sex, so if you're looking for heavy breathing about ethics and morality, move on, turn the page.
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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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It's time for action to halt obscenities
Paul McGeough Tears don't cut it, Mr President. After another school massacre on Friday, a tearful Barack Obama declared ''our hearts are broken'', before promising ''meaningful action to prevent more tragedies...
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Karzai's cabal steals the national capital
Paul McGeough The Kabul Bank fiasco is as much Canberra's legacy as it is Washington's.
So many secrets, not enough intelligence
Paul McGeough Does this jolt to the massive combine that is the US intelligence system, by the unseemly departure of the head of the CIA in what we know as the Petraeus affair, require a pause to look at the house...
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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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Bibi the fall guy as Barack wins the lot
Paul McGeough Moscow's thinking on the new Obama line-up comes discreetly, deniably.
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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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Nobel cause writes China into corner
Paul McGeough There are idiots - and then there's the Chinese government.
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The military adviser left out in the cold
Paul McGeough The lost pages of Catch-22 have turned up: they are the real-life career notes of Gwenyth Todd.
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Here's a banking chief worth protecting
Paul McGeough When Muhammad Yunus gets mugged by the government of Bangladesh, our culture of modern hero-worship manifests as blanket indifference.
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Coalition of the unwilling to understand
Paul McGeough With apologies to film director Ken Kwapis, they're just not that into us. We're talking about Afghans.
