World Affairs: North America
Lead Feature
I pardon you turkey
George W Bush has pardoned a turkey to mark Thanksgiving but it's the president's power to grant leniency to former allies who have fallen foul of the law that's causing speculation
In north america
Plight of the unpeople
- By John Pilger
- 27 November
Britain happily colludes in the great state crimes of other western governments. Take the law lords' betrayal of the Chagos Islanders
Rough crossings
- By York Membery
- 27 November
York Membery looks back to an era when scores of poor Britons sailed the Atlantic in search of a better life
America's Army
- By Iain Simons
- 26 November
Stars and Stripes magazine has announced the US Army is about to invest $50m in videogame development over the next 5 years in what is both a PR and recruitment drive
Iraq's mercenary forces
- By Brittany Peats
- 25 November
After two charred American corpses were hung from a bridge in Fallujah, the shadowy world of government contracted companies came under the media spotlight
Funny peculiar
- By Sean Quinn Walpole
- 20 November
A Field Guide to the British
Sarah Lyall
Quercus, 277pp, £14.99
State of the Nation
- By Carla Power
- 20 November
Carla Power on images of contemporary life in the United States
Feature
The team of rivals thing
For Barack Obama, forgiveness has few bounds if it means he can surround himself with the best people - and that includes a former enemy, Hillary Clinton
More in north america
Here come the liberals
- By Will Hutton
- 13 November 2008
In with the in-crowd
- By Alec MacGillis
- 13 November 2008
Don't believe the hype
- By John Pilger
- 13 November 2008
Cameron's Obama fantasy
- By David Lammy
- 13 November 2008
The last best hope
- By Peter Wilby
- 13 November 2008
A last chance
- By Paul Mason
- 06 November 2008
Misunderestimating George
- By Ryan Gilbey
- 06 November 2008
