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Paul McGeough

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

Influence ... Israel lobbyists are drawing criticism in the US.

Paul McGeough

The NRA-style potshot is alive and well

Paul McGeough If just a single bully works the neighbourhood, there's a good chance that his protection racket can hold up.

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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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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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This is Romney's campaign to lose

Paul McGeough ELEMENTS of the commentariat are demanding a Sister Souljah moment from Mitt Romney. The call harks back to 1992 when candidate Bill Clinton gave the African-American rapper a jab in the ribs for her...

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Republicans plot to steal White House

Paul McGeough There's a fiendish cleverness in perpetrating a fraud in broad daylight.

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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...