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Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
Cheney, who served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush, will be remembered for controversial role aft…
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Sushi, Pacific lobster … cheeseburgers: Japanese food fit for a president
Joe Biden’s hosts have treated him to Tokyo’s finest cuisine, but entertaining US presidents hasn’t always gon…
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Lives lost, poverty, an arms race, rights destroyed … the continuing cost of 9/11
The US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been mor…
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The Afghanistan Papers review: superb exposé of a war built on lies
Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post used freedom of information to produce the definitive US version of the …
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Who’s to blame for the Afghanistan chaos? Remember the war’s cheerleaders | George Monbiot
Today the media are looking for scapegoats, but 20 years ago they helped facilitate the disastrous interventio…
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George W Bush fears for women as he criticises Afghanistan pullout
Former US president says west’s withdrawal is a mistake and could cause ‘unspeakable harm’The former US presid…
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The Observer view on US and Nato withdrawal from Afghanistan | Observer editorial
This shabby, half-hidden retreat by western forces abandons a nation to mayhem, civil war and terrorThe confli…