Americans in Parisby Charles Glass 
Americans in Paris tells for the first time the true story of the thousands of Americans who stayed in Paris during the Nazi occupation. This tale of adventure, intrigue, passion and deceit exposes the lives of Americans caught up in war from the day the German army marched into Paris in June 1944 and took many of them into the Paris underground, the Maquis and the concentration camps. Order a copy through Amazon.com, Harper Collins or Penguin USA
The Northern Frontby Charles Glass 
The Northern Front is an eyewitness account of the Iraqi opposition's preparations for the American invasion, the Kurdish planning in northern Iraq and the early stages of the war when some of the opposition moved to the south. Order a copy through Al Saqi Books
The Tribes Triumphantby Charles Glass 
The Tribes Triumphant completes the story of Charles Glass' earlier Middle East adventure, Tribes With Flags, after his kidnapping by Hizballah in Lebanon.
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Tribes With Flagsby Charles Glass 
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Money For Old Ropeby Charles Glass 
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afghanistan
War, Women, and the Taliban
Taki's Magazine 19 Jul 10
It's only dire necessity That's taking me to war; And if I were a moneyed man I wouldn't go for sure. -Miguel de Cervantes de Saavedra, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha (translated by John Rutherford), Penguin Books, 2000, page 651....
Afghan Mine Field
Taki's Magazine 21 Jun 10
When you're losing bad on Afghanistan's plains And the critics dare to question your gains Just roll to your geology and use your brains And go to your gold like I told yer - With apologies to Rudyard Kipling...
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american empire
Self-evident Truths
Taki's Magazine 19 Jan 09
For Barack Obama on the Eve of His Inauguration as President of the United States....
Squaring the circle
The New Statesman 15 Jan 09
"The war between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden defeated both of its protagonists," says Gilles Kepel in his provocative study of the war on terror and the Middle East. But there's too much else to lose for America or the jihadis to withdraw from the conflict. Review of Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: the Future of the Middle East...
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britain
The Last of England
Harper's Magazine 01 Nov 05
"The facts are simple enough. If we had left the olive groves and the cotton fields and the oil wells of this region alone, we might not have had to worry about this equilibrium - least not yet. But we have not left them alone. We have sent our ideas and our ideals, and our motion pictures and our radio...
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india/pakistan
Have we learnt nothing from Rwanda?
The Observer 09 Jun 02
India and Pakistan are at war. A million troops stand mobilised on either side of the 1972 line of control that separates the two countries in Kashmir. Civilians on both sides are dying in artillery exchanges. Pakistani-armed militants have attacked Indian troops and civilians in India. Pakistan and India have, by international consensus, at least 200 nuclear warheads between them....
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iran
Death to the Dictator
Taki's Magazine: The Sniper's Tower 28 Jan 10
The opposition in Iran, as elsewhere, uses the language of human rights to assert its moral superiority over its enemies in their seats of power. Opposition spokesmen point to government kangaroo courts, rapes, beatings, electric shocks and imposition of the death penalty to convince the world outside that the regime is illegitimate. Vicious attacks on students by the modern brownshirts...
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iraq
Saddam's Most Dangerous Legacy
Taki's Magazine 24 Jun 10
While Saddam Hussein was still ruling Iraq, he went to a village to award a new Kalashnikov rifle to a young boy. The boy had come to the tyrant's attention after reporting the private conversations of his mother and father to the secret police. It seemed the parents had criticized the tyrant, whom the youngster had been taught in school...
Covering up American War Crimes, From Baghdad to New York
Taki's Magazine 22 Mar 10
BBC correspondent John Simpson reported on March 4 that the number of defects in newborn babies in the Iraqi town of Fallujah had risen dramatically since the American assault there at the end of 2004. Some people in the town blame the abnormalities in their children on whatever chemicals the US Marines may have used in their conquest of the...
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israel/palestine
The Gaza Flotilla and Israel's Many, Many Rights
Taki's Magazine 03 Jun 10
Anybody can support Israel when times are good and The Timeses in London and New York write about Israeli entrepreneurs in Herzliya, Nobel prizes for physicians, and the blooming desert. That's easy. How about now, though, when Israeli forces have blasted a humanitarian convoy at sea and killed nine people bringing food, medicine, baby clothes, and building supplies? When the...
Under Siege: On Emma Williams
The Nation 28 Jan 10
It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street A Jerusalem Memoir. By Emma Williams. Foreword by Brian Urquhart. Olive Branch Press. 412 pp. Paper $16. In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie's seventh birthday party failed to turn up. Distance was not the issue, given that her house...
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journalism
My Mentor: Charles Glass on Peter Jennings
The Independent 26 Jun 06
The first time I ever saw Peter he was wearing a trench coat. It had belonged to his father, who was a venerated Canadian broadcaster. If you were going to make a film about a foreign correspondent you would cast Peter in that trench coat....
Peter Jennings
The Independent 09 Aug 05
Peter Charles Jennings, television and radio journalist: born Toronto, Ontario 29 July 1938; staff, ABC News 1964-2005, international anchor, World News Tonight, 1978-83, anchor and senior editor 1983-2005; married first Valerie Godsoe (marriage dissolved), secondly 1973 Annie Malouf (marriage dissolved), thirdly 1979 Kati Marton (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1994), fourthly 1997 Kayce Freed; died New York 7 August...
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lebanon
Obituary of Imad Mougnieh: Elusive Hizbollah leader
The Independent 16 Feb 08
The United States had credited Mougnieh with the 1983 bombing of its embassy in Beirut and the destruction of the US Marine headquarters later that year, the hijacking of TWA flight 847 in 1985 and the kidnappings of dozens of American citizens in Lebanon throughout the 1980s. Israel blamed him for the suicide bombing that levelled its military command centre...
What Luttwak didn't say
Prospect Issue 135 01 Jun 07
Edward Luttwak is right that the middle east is not important enough to fight over. That's why the US should withdraw from Iraq and stop providing aid to Israel....
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middle east - general
Squaring the circle
The New Statesman 15 Jan 09
"The war between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden defeated both of its protagonists," says Gilles Kepel in his provocative study of the war on terror and the Middle East. But there's too much else to lose for America or the jihadis to withdraw from the conflict. Review of Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: the Future of the Middle East...
Can Obama change the Middle East? No, he can't
The First Post 06 Jan 09
Patrick Tyler provides a misguided excuse for America's ongoing role in the catastrophe that is the Middle East, says Charles Glass...
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miscellaneous
Prince Charles Saves Chelsea Barracks
Taki's Magazine 28 Jun 10
Something happened to British architects after the Second World War. Rugged Howard Roarke-like geniuses and obscure mediocrities alike shared an aesthetic that, for some reason, no one outside the profession understood. Perhaps the architecture schools gave them sets of glasses that made them to see the world in a way the rest of us cannot....
The New Wild West Economy
Taki's Magazine 02 Jun 10
The financial geniuses who caused, yet failed to predict, the world's financial collapse are not doing much yet to avoid another crash. Given that I didn't predict it either, I am as qualified as they are to propose "the way out." Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, and many other bankers brought us to this pass, so they may not be the...
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north america
Obama and Chicago
Unpublished 23 Jan 09
And they tell me your are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true that I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again. Carl Sandburg, "Chicago," 1916...
Time to end the second prohibition
Taki's Magazine 04 Jan 09
Salvation was in the air. Repeal, also, was in the air. Two weeks before, the lame-duck Congress had turned a somersault and voted the amendment to the Constitution ending Prohibition. The wets were making merry with applejack, bathtub gin and prohibition hooch. "Beer by Easter," they cried. Forty-one legislatures were in session for the chance to approve the wet amendment...
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reviews
Whose body?
The London Review of Books 22 Jul 10
Review of Operation Mincemeat: The True Spy Story that Changed the Course of World War Two by Ben Macintyre Bloomsbury, 400 pp, £16.99, January 2010, ISBN 978 0 7475 9868 8...
Under Siege: On Emma Williams
The Nation 28 Jan 10
It's Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street A Jerusalem Memoir. By Emma Williams. Foreword by Brian Urquhart. Olive Branch Press. 412 pp. Paper $16. In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son Archie's seventh birthday party failed to turn up. Distance was not the issue, given that her house...
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september 11
Squaring the circle
The New Statesman 15 Jan 09
"The war between George W. Bush and Osama Bin Laden defeated both of its protagonists," says Gilles Kepel in his provocative study of the war on terror and the Middle East. But there's too much else to lose for America or the jihadis to withdraw from the conflict. Review of Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: the Future of the Middle East...
Cyber-Jihad
London Review of Books Vol. 28, No. 5 12 Mar 06
When I was five years old, the first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Nikita Khrushchev, threatened to bury me. That was in 1956, when he buried the Hungarian Revolution. In California we welcomed Hungarian victims of Soviet brutality while finding no room for the Guatemalans whose democracy the CIA had crushed two years earlier. We were trained to ignore...
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spain
Fleeing the Horns
Saga Magazine, London, October 2003 01 Oct 03
'Won't it be splendid,' Brett said. 'Spain! We will have fun.' - Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises It was my idea. It's been my idea for about 35 years. I like to think that, deep down, it is everyone's idea. If it hadn't been for Hemingway, I wonder if many foreigners would attend a bullfight festival held in...
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syria
From Beirut to Damascus
The Nation 28 Nov 05
In the autumn of 1972, arriving in Lebanon as a graduate student at the American University of Beirut, I discovered radical student politics. The mainly Palestinian-led student movements were only a few years behind Paris and New York, and strikes were common. When police raided sit-ins, students sang "We Shall Overcome." Discussions went on all night....
Bashar Assad: The Syrian Sphinx
The Independent 19 Feb 05
When Syria's young president, Bashar Assad, contemplates the forces ranged against him, he may recall that his father faced greater odds and won. Bashar was only 16 in 1982, when an uprising by Islamic fundamentalists and an Israeli invasion of Lebanon threatened the survival of the regime....
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the balkans
Lewis of Arabia
The Nation 13 Sep 04
Review of From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East by Bernard Lewis. I have witnessed what Bernard Lewis, and later Samuel Huntington, designated the "clash of civilizations" between Christendom and Islam up close in at least two wars. One was the Lebanese civil war that erupted in the spring of 1975, pitting universal values and tolerance against sectarianism and...
Letter from London
Znet 02 Apr 99
The war against Slobodan Milosevic was clearly lost when the London papers ran a front-page photograph of Defence Secretary George Robertson in Italy aboard a warplane. This isn't a war, it's a photo op for politicians who have never seen battle. With friends like British prime minister Tony Blair and his comic book hero, Bill Clinton, Kosovo's Albanians will be...
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travel
Back to the old hacienda
The Independent 25 Jun 05
Something bit me. In fact, lots of things were gnawing at me. Their chewing progressed up my leg to my back and face - and no, I wasn't dreaming. I leapt out of bed, grabbed a torch and surveyed the sheets. A column of ants was marching under the front door, over my bed and out into the garden. The...
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