There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Japan is being sucked into the new cold war against China
Despite its famous constitutional commitment to never fully remilitarise, Japan is now participating in US-led war games and spending billions more on weaponry, reports VIJAY PRASHAD
WAR GAMES: Japanese destroyer Asahi (right) joins exercises alongside the US, Australia, Canada and South Korea, in Sagami Bay, south of Tokyo, November 6
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
IN early December 2021, Japan’s Self-Defence Force joined the US armed forces for Resolute Dragon 2021, which the US Marines called the “largest bilateral training exercise of the year.”
Major General Jay Bargeron said at the start of the exercise that the US is “ready to fight and win if called upon.”
Resolute Dragon 2022 followed the resumption, in September, of trilateral military drills off the Korean peninsula by Japan, South Korea and the US; these drills had been suspended as the former South Korean government attempted a policy of rapprochement with North Korea.
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