Al-Ahram Weekly Online   10 - 16 March 2005
Issue No. 733
International
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

1955 and all that
First colonialism, then neocolonialism, and now globalisation -- it's all pretty much the same for the underdogs of the South, writes Gamal Nkrumah
Commentary: Between law and politics
In calling for Ariel Sharon to be prosecuted as an international criminal, London's mayor poses the choice between a world governed by the rule of law and a world based simply on the convenience of power, writes Curtis Doebbler
Washington lets Italians down
Apparently, the Americans didn't wish Giuliana Sgrena well, writes Samia Nkrumah from Rome
Torture from the top
Two leading US human rights groups sued Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and three senior military officials, holding them directly responsible for the spread of torture in US detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, Khaled Dawoud reports from Washington

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