Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
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Ecosystems and economics turned inside out
Amid increasing floods and drought brought about by climate change, water security and its effective management are going to become pivotal factors in tomorrow’s politics, warns ALAN SIMPSON
ON THE WRONG PLANET: Former Bank of England governor Mervyn King
CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to the France Insoumise politician facing constant persecution from French authorities
It can be hard to discern conspiracy theory from reality and under the Trump regime the two might just be the same thing, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country
Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER
On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right
WHEN systems break down, contradictions pour out everywhere. Just as the floodwaters washed whole districts of Derna, Libya, into the sea, former governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, claimed it was unreasonable to give the bank climate duties. Mervyn lives on the wrong planet.
Over 20,000 people remain unaccounted for in Derna. It could be many more. Relatives of the missing search for them among bodies washed back onto the beaches. The scale of losses is difficult to imagine.
It isn’t much better further along the north Africa coast where emergency relief teams are still trying to access remote villages in Morocco, all devastated by the earthquake.
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