Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Ending the colonial occupation of Palestine is the only answer to this conflagration
PAYAM SOLHTALAB of civil rights advocacy group Liberation calls for an immediate ceasefire and respect for international law in the besieged Gaza Strip
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
THE eyes of world public opinion have been drawn once more to the Middle East and the plight of the long-suffering Palestinian people, as an already fragile and tense situation deteriorates, with an escalation in violence and the threat of another disastrous war looming large — the brunt of which will be borne, as always, by an innocent and already beleaguered civilian population.
The upsurge in violence over this past week — which has worsened hour by hour, day by day — now threatens to engulf the densely populated besieged Gaza Strip and is the worst since the Israeli military’s atrocious relentless bombardment of the territory, with the world watching on in summer 2014 and the huge civilian death toll it exacted, a horrific trauma from which the Palestinian population had barely even begun to recover.
One cannot fail to note that, amid the fighting and drive towards war, the fallout from a domestic political crisis which was poised just over a week ago to bring an end to the tenure of Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister — with his trial on serious corruption charges already under way — has conveniently abated for the time being. The clamour for his resignation has fallen silent.
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