Jonathan Power




TFF Associate Jonathan Power - one of the world's leading columnists on international affairs, human rights and peace. He syndicates his columns with some 50 papers worldwide.
We are proud to have featured every one of them since 1997.
In 2003, Power returned to the International Herald Tribune.

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2012 Columns

 

January 17, 2012
Taiwan is not going back to China

January 11, 2012
Muslim extremism in proportion

January 7, 2012
The 10th anniversary of the Euro - the creation of the politically united Europe?

 

2011 Columns

December 27, 2011
The US is off the mark in North Korea

December 20, 2011
War and crime is sharply down

December 13, 2011
Islam - Nothing to fear but fear itself

December 6, 2011
Terrifying blockage in nuclear disarmament

November 29, 2011
Rosa Parks of today - or how to tame the financial monster

November 23, 2011
The search for happiness

November 17, 2011
Finland resists immigration tide

November 9, 2011
Iran's bomb will not be the last

November 1, 2011
Dangerous Pakistan

October 26, 2011
Gadaffi should have been tried

October 19, 2011
The end of Africa's darkness

October 11, 2011
Ten more years in Afghanistan?

October 5, 2011
Who is the enigma - Putin or Clinton?

September 27, 2011
Endgame for Al Qaeda

September 20, 2011
Palestine versus Israel at the UN

September 13, 2011
Did America learn nothing from 9/11 ?

September 6, 2011
Is war receding as Barack Obama claims?

August 30, 2011
Despite Libya warmongering is down

August 23, 2011
Nigeria - Africa's biggest country - is surging

August 18, 2011
London riots is nothing new

August 10, 2011
Israeli intrasigence ignores history

August 3, 2011
The "Arab Spring" - is Morocco ahead of the pack?

July 29, 2011
Are the poor getting hungrier?

July 20, 2011
No progress in Guatemala, Latin America's most violent state

July 12, 2011
The immigration debate is extremely misleading

July 5, 2011
Obama is cornered by his generals on Afghanistan

June 29, 2011
The Afghanistan imbroglio

June 23, 2011
Time overdue that Russia enters the EU

June 14, 2011
Turkey's general election and the Kurds

June 7, 2011
The madness of American and European economic policies

May 31, 2011
Amnesty International is 50 this week

May 25, 2011
World poverty: this is progress

May 17, 2011
The communists lost in India's West Bengal but Kolkata is heading for world city status

May 11, 2011
Could the Second World War have been avoided?

May 2, 2011
The killing of bin Laden and the American arrogance of power

April 26, 2011
A court to arrest dictators before the damage is done

April 20, 2011
Is the UN becoming a warrior?

April 7, 2011
Nigeria is becoming number one

March 29, 2011
The "No First Use" of nuclear weapons debate

March 23, 2011
Hiroshima and today's earthquake

March 15, 2011
A no-fly zone over Libya won't work!

March 9, 2011
Maoist insurgency in India

March 2, 2011
The UN Security Council refers Gaddafi to War Crimes Court

February 23, 2011
The non-violent struggle in the Middle East

February 15, 2011
Mistaken fear of change in Egypt - and non-violence works!

February 8, 2011
Worrying about China's military strength

February 1, 2011
The cutting of a trusted voice: BBC World Service

January 26, 2011
Dangers of conventional wisdom

January 21, 2011
Is Israel the only possible homeland for Jews?

January 11, 2011image
The Third World is catching up

January 4, 2011
So aid doesn't work?

 

2010 Columns

December 31, 2010
Is Afghanistan another Vietnam?

December 22, 2010
Astute thinking is quickly needed on the Korean peninsula

December 15, 2010
The micro-credit revolution fights back

December 8, 2010
At the economic heart of India

December 2, 2010
A bit of cricket in the Afghanistan debate

November 25, 2010
After the NATO-Russian Summit, it is time to reflect on peace

November 16, 2010
Preventing more ethnic disputes

November 10, 2010
China's assertiveness in the South China Sea

November 2, 2010
Sweden's success in combating sex trafficking

October 26, 2010
The mid term U.S. elections are not that important to Obama

October 19, 2010
Death of the Soviet Union's foreign policy guru

October 13, 2010
Norway - women at the top

October 6, 2010
Brazil is moving from Third World to First World

September 29, 2010
Brazil's strightforward elections on October 3

September 22, 2010
Is China expanding?

September 14, 2010
Sweden's election on Sunday - a conservative sweep in a socialist land?

September 6, 2010
Sunday's referendum and the future of the Turkish Kurds - more progress and less war?

August 31, 2010
If Iran why not Britain abjuring nuclear weapons?

August 25, 2010
The lies of Tony Blair that led to the Iraq war

August 20, 2010
Devastating origins of the Afghan imbroglio

August 12, 2010
The former President of Mexico calls for drug legislation

August 5, 2010
The attack on human rights is flawed

July 28, 2010
The excitement of the big drop in the infant mortality rate

July 22, 2010
Russia inside NATO?

July 15, 2010
Israel's dangerous ignorance about its own history

July 7, 2010
Government use of torture in the U.K.?

June 30, 2010
Latin America succeeds at more than just the World Cup

June 25, 2010
Africa roaring to go

June 16, 2010
Iran's nuclear deal with Turkey and Brazil worth another look

June 9, 2010
The International Criminal Court is on the up

June 1, 2010
Israel's attack could well become the turning point Selma Alabama did

May 25, 2010
How soon withdrawal in Iraq?

May 22, 2010
Israel is shooting itself in the foot - and in its back

May 13, 2010
The up and coming state of Nigeria after the death of its president

May 5, 2010
Can the terrorists halt India's peace deal with Pakistan?

April 29, 2010
New contours in UK elections

April 20, 2010
Obama's empty promises on human rights

April 15, 2010
Kolkata - The legacy of empire

April 7, 2010
Is the U.S. really prepared to nuke Iran?

April 1, 2010
This is the exact moment to start total nuclear disarmament

March 23, 2010
Obama must put Palestine before Israel
On the visit of Netanyahu to Washington...

March 17, 2010
Obama's foreign policy in the sand

March 9, 2010
Misleading us on climate change

March 3, 2010
Maoists on the up in India

February 24, 2010
Amnesty off the piste

February 17, 2010
Haiti - failed state forever?

February 9, 2010
Forgetting about North Korea's bomb

February 3, 2010
Tony Blair's obfuscation on Iraq war

January 28, 2010
Communism in India

January 23, 2010
Nigerian president half dead

January 15, 2010
Can there be peace now between India and Pakistan?

January 5, 2010
War crimes punishment on a roll

 

2009 Columns

December 31, 2009
Total nuclear disarmament in 2010

December 24, 2009
Obama's peace and war

December 19, 2009
India resurgent

December 9, 2009
The horror side of capitalism: Bhopal 24 years

December 2, 2009
Why not Turkey in the EU?

November 24, 2009
A surplus of men. A deficit of peace?

November 19, 2009
America's war criminals

November 12, 2009
Breeding Bin Ladens

November 3, 2009
The arm of the terrorists is not that long

October 30, 2009
Free trade is coming back

October 23, 2009
Absolutely nothing in the news!

October 13, 2009
We will live for ever!

October 7, 2009
The search for happiness

October 1, 2009
Running out of goals? Poverty remains...

September 22, 2009
War works?

September 15, 2009
The exaggerations of the climate debate

September 7, 2009
War in abeyance?

August 26, 2009
How not to capture Osama

August 18, 2009
There are many Irans

August 11, 2009
The division of Jerusalem has to be faced now

August 4, 2009
Who's left? What's right?

July 28, 2009
Democracy gone to seed?

July 21, 2009
Russia, Europe's other half
On Medvedev's proposal for a new European Security Strategy

July 13, 2009
Do the G8 know how to help poor farmers?

July 6, 2009
The G8 promises to help the global poor

June 30, 2009
The Obama-Medvedev Summit of July 7th

June 23, 2009
Can Obama and Medvedev press the reset button at their July 6th summit?

June 16, 2009
Europe, the great republic?

June 9, 2009
Can Obama marry the history of Islam with the politics of today?

June 2, 2009
Can the European Paliament help change Europe?

May 26, 2009
Now is the time for a deal on Kashmir

May 20, 2009
Talking to Sonia Gandhi

May 13, 2009
Legalising poppy growing in Afghanistan

May 6, 2009
A conversation with the man closest to Dmitri Medvedev

April 28, 2009
Have we forgotten the Convention Against Torture?

April 20, 2009
My daughter's holiday in the Muslim world!

April 15, 2009
The big hunt from Eichmann to Bin Laden

April 7, 2009
Can Obama do better than Reagan on nuclear arms control?

March 31, 2009
At the London G 20 meeting tooth fairies could help with the economic crisis

March 25, 2009
A re-entry strategy into Afghanistan?

March 18, 2009
Engage more, do war less in Afghanistan

March 11, 2009
On how not to press the re-set button

March 4, 2009
The Jews have no right to their Old Testament conquests

February 24, 2009
India is key to peace in Pakistan and Afghanistan

February 19, 2009
Resurrecting Keynes, the world's greatest economist

February 10, 2009
The Pope should resign

February 3, 2009
Undermining Afghanistan's opium business

January 27, 2009
Libya's lesson for Iran

January 21, 2009
Can Obama meet the world more humbly?

January 13, 2009
Obama's inheritance of torture

January 7, 2009
Palestine and the war of civilisations


2008

December 30, 2008
Is Sweden in the midst of political change?

December 23, 2008
Twisting the words of Paul McCartney

December 15, 2008
Nuclear matchsticks on the Indian sub-continent

December 10, 2008
Walkers of the World, Unite!

December 3, 2008
The triangle of madness

November 26, 2008
The hurry to get rid of big power nuclear arms

November 19, 2008
Obama and the Iranian bomb

November 12, 2008
Next step - Obama's foreign policy

November 5, 2008
President Barack Hussein Obama

October 28, 2008
War is not how McCain describes it

October 22, 2008
Non-violence - a dangerous idea

October 14, 2008
North Korea - the long way round

October 7, 2008
Exiting Iraq and Afghanistan

October 1, 2008
America in this financial crisis must end its military dreams

September 27, 2008
America's love/hate relationship with the United Nations

September 19, 2008
Downhill in Afghanistan

September 12, 2008
The dreadful simplicity of today's war-mongers

September 7, 2008
After Georgia, get ethnic conflict in proportion

August 28, 2008
The long insult to Russia

August 22, 2008
How not to deal with Russia

August 14, 2008
Russia should be law-abiding with Georgia

August 8, 2008
The U.S. needs international law

August 1, 2008
Without an American war on poverty

July 24, 2008
Defeating the military-industrial complex

July 17, 2008
This should be Obama's foreign policy

July 4, 2008
Africa's Cindarella

June 23, 2008
Beneath the surface in Nigeria

June 20, 2008
Nigeria after Obasanjo

June 2, 2008
A new missile crisis?

May 30, 2008
Immigration is not good for you

May 24, 2008
Why the Middle East doesn't matter

May 17, 2008
The so-called World Food Crisis

May 9, 2008
Muslim deviance?

April 30, 2008
Looking at the end of Israel

April 24, 2008
Paris 1968 - the wrong story

April 17, 2008
U.S. torture - when can the prosecutions begin?

April 11, 2008
Saving Zimbabwe to save Africa

April 5, 2008
McCain's Islamic demagoguery

March 28, 2008
Tanzania - an African country hurrying to the fore

March 20, 2008
Taiwan's general elections could help make a grand Chinese peace

March 12, 2008
The 3AM call

March 8, 2008
Post Al Qaeda terrorists can be defeated

March 1, 2008
Obama's foreign policy will win the world's respect

February 19, 2008
Getting out of Afghanistan

February 16, 2008
Our racial prejudice in the Obama age

February 8, 2008
Will Bush fight Iran?

February 2, 2008
A double-headed double dose of Clinton is not what the world needs

January 26, 2008
The confidence to say 'no' to presidential warmakers

January 19, 2008
Is democracy going backwards?

January 12, 2008
Barack Obama's remarkable personality

January 3, 2008
Musharraf is not the rogue; Bhutto was


 

 


 

William Pfaff, September 17, 2007
Jonathan Power's book "Conundrums" - A Review
"His is a powerful and comprehensive statement of ways to make the world better. Is that worth the Nobel Prize? I say, why not?"

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