Articles by Felicity Arbuthnot

Felicity Arbuthnot asks what threat children pose to the Israeli state.

Felicity Arbuthnot has her own ideas about how the UK’s former Prime Minister could be remembered.

Felicity Arbuthnot tells the intriguing story of the disappearance of 24 members of Iraq’s Olympic Committee.

Felicity Arbuthnot wonders how the Distinguished Humanitarian Leadership award can be given to someone involved in the war in Afghanistan.

The former US Secretary of State is to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to the horror of Felicity Arbuthnot.

As several airlines bow to Israeli pressure to cancel flights of pro-Palestine activists, Felicity Arbuthnot writes an open letter to the CEO of Lufthansa.

When is a US troop pullout not a pullout? asks Felicity Arbuthnot.

As the Doomsday Clock moves to five minutes to midnight, Obama’s rhetoric is beginning to seem rather hollow, says Felicity Arbuthnot.

First it was Saddam, then bin Laden and now Gaddafi. The West gets its man but loses its humanity, says Felicity Arbuthnot.

A day of remembering – but also of not forgetting others who suffered, and continue to suffer, from the fall-out of the ‘war on terror’. Felicity Arbuthnot considers the evidence.

They say they ‘got him’. RIP, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, says Felicity Arbuthnot.

‘And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor,
And the subsequent proceedings, interested him no more.’
(Francis Brett Harte, 1836-1902)

Felicity Arbuthnot considers the evidence.

Behind the smiles and peace awards stands a war-profiteer with a lot of answering to do, reckons Felicity Arbuthnot.

When a house on Princesses Street was bombed on 4 April, the legacy of poet Jabra Ibrahim Jabra was also destroyed, reveals Felicity Arbuthnot.

The recent video released by Wikileaks has dismayed, but not surprised, Felicity Arbuthnot. Military personnel have been wreaking carnage on Afghan and Iraqi citizens for years.

Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Haiti. Felicity Arbuthnot argues that the US’s so-called humanitarian intervention on the devastated Caribbean island is anything but.

The UN does not have a clean slate in Iraq. Felicity Arbuthnot recalls an embargo that even banned funeral shrouds.

Felicity Arbuthnot recalls the doomed buildings of the country she loves.

US attacks Israel boycotters