The Guardian

My station is a threat to American media control - and they know it

Its abject failure gave us only anarchy. The world needs order

The first day of the attack on Iraq shows that the spin many believed is not matching the reality of what is happening on the ground

Blair's Iraq predicament is desperate

How the US and Britain can back democracy and disarmament now

Confidential files reveal Tory ministers' roles in approval of gas-producing facility and plans to hide it from US

President Saddam's chemical warfare procurement agency, the so-called state enterprise for pesticide production (SEPP), embarked on a new strategy, to make everything it needed at home. It commissioned a chlorine plant, to be built at Falluja, close to the Habbaniya air base.

A chemical plant which the US says is a key component in Iraq's chemical warfare arsenal was secretly built by Britain in 1985 behind the backs of the Americans, the Guardian can disclose.

The US has drawn up a 'head transplant' plan, based on a short, intense air campaign and landings in Baghdad to oust Saddam Hussein

As public opposition mounts, the PM is forced to play his last card

Daniel Ellsberg's leaks from inside the Pentagon helped to end the Vietnam war. On the eve of another unpopular war, Chalmers Johnson holds out for an Ellsberg in the Bush administration in this latest essay from the LRB

Ellsberg first approached this problem via the old idea that the President is innocent but deceived by sycophantic underlings: if only Kennedy - or Johnson, Nixon, the Pope, the King, the Tsar, Stalin etc - had known what was going on, he would have fixed things.

In the mode of Basil Fawlty, I've tried not to mention the war. I know that Guardian readers are massively opposed to any action against Saddam Hussein, as are 90% of the people I love and respect both personally and professionally.

Hendekler dolu ağzına kadar / Cesetleriyle, gidemeyenlerin / Cesetleriyle diğerlerinin; methiyeye katılmayan / Cesetleriyle, seslerini kaybetmekte olanların / Cesetleriyle türküyü unutanların... Oyun yazarı Harold Pinter'in ilk kez geçen gün The Guardian gazetesinde yayımlanan şiirinin çevirisi.

Weapons of mass destruction are cited as the spur for action. Perhaps the real motive is something just as urgent?

In a poem written for the Guardian, the distinguished playwright Harold Pinter takes the US to task for its seemingly inexorable march towards war on Iraq

US policy, backed by Britain, is to keep open the nuclear option against both states with chemical and biological arms and terrorist groups

Over the Christmas season, most of us have heard the word "peace" many times. Yet the New Year could soon bring British troops to Iraq to kill and be killed.

This week the countdown to war on Iraq may begin in earnest

In this city, there is no doubt: war is coming, and the Middle East will be remade

This man is regarded by many outside the US as a war criminal. There are countries he can't travel to for fear of arrest. Why has George Bush just given him a major job? Julian Borger on the Phoenix-like rise of Henry Kissinger

The arguments for Turkey joining the European Union are strong, writes Simon Tisdall

The US is going global with its 'son of star wars' programme

Admitting Turkey to the European Union would send a positive signal to the Islamic world and prevent a future clash of civilisations, the leader of the country's newly elected governing party told an audience in London yesterday.

In deciding if Turkey should join the EU, the logic of unity clashes with the logic of peace

The west's warlords will get their invasion, in spite of global opinion

When George W Bush arrived in the White House, it was hardly surprising that he looked after Enron - the company had been looking after him for years. In the final extract of his book, Robert Bryce describes how the firm bought its way into Washington's corridors of power

The former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing ran into immediate British opposition to some of his key ideas when he unveiled a carefully-balanced draft for a European Union constitution yesterday.

Its testosterone-fuelled traders were fixtures in Houston's strip clubs. One division of the company spent $2m a year on flowers alone...

In the US, not everyone is an overweight gun fanatic - and not everyone wants a war with Iraq