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
The day Canadian parliamentarians spat on the graves of the WWII dead
The Western Establishment has a warped and shameful history of sympathy with fascism, warns JOHN WIGHT
The Speaker of Canada's House of Commons Anthony Rota delivers a speech following an address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday
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
THE conflict in Ukraine is in microcosm a continuation of World War II, in that it has exposed the extent to which Western ideologues are willing to collude with open Nazis and fascists in service to the rabid Russophobia that has over generations developed deep cultural roots in the corridors of power west of the Vistula.
It should not be forgotten that right up until Hitler’s annexation of Czechoslovakia, Hitler and Mussolini were viewed by a section of the ruling classes in France, Britain and the United States not as adversaries but as allies in the “noble struggle” being waged by big business and their political bag carriers against the rising tide of communism and its growing traction among their own workers.
In Britain sympathy with the Nazis and their barbarous ideology extended all the way into Buckingham Palace, where Hitler enjoyed the support of King Edward VIII and his US wife, Wallis Simpson, prior to and after the former was forced to abdicate the throne over the fact that Simpson was a divorcee and thereby, following the tradition of the day, deemed unsuitable as a king’s consort.
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