Paul McGeough

Paul McGeough

Paul McGeough is chief foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald.

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Still waiting for Western civilisation

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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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Karzai's cabal steals the national capital

Paul McGeough The Kabul Bank fiasco is as much Canberra's legacy as it is Washington's.

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Pull the plug on Murdoch's modem

Paul McGeough Many families reach a point at which they need to confront the antics of the oldies - it appears to have arrived for the Murdochs.

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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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Take a bite out of Iran at your peril

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Paul McGeough You'd have thought the reality of Afghanistan and Iraq might act as a break on the instinctive lunge by hawks to compare apples with oranges as they try to gull us into a belief that war is a doddle.

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Postage stamp nation as global ringmaster

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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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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

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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.