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.
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.
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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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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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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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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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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In the US, the gun lobby calls the shots
Paul McGeough It didn't take long for a would-be copycat of last week's Colorado mass killer to emerge.
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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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Take a bite out of Iran at your peril
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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West will be losers if Gaddafi holds on
Paul McGeough Muammar Gaddafi looks like a flake, so we don't expect logic from him. But with all their fine suits and braided uniforms, we do expect it from those higher up in a Western military campaign that...
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Gorran challenge threatens politics of Kurdistan
Paul McGeough Iraq's backroom political strategists may have a new area of uncertainty to reckon with after the nation's vote: the Kurdish north.
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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.
