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
Scandalise his name: the red-baiting of Bernie Sanders
The US Establishment are using the ‘smear’ of being a Communist to attack Sanders's breakthrough campaign — what are the implications of this desperate measure, asks ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Lily Barbour, 5, holds up a campaign sign for Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders during a massive campaign event in Austin, Texas on Sunday in which over 12,000 people came
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
RECENT weeks have given witness to a decided growth of the Anyone-But-Bernie (ABB) syndrome — the promotion by top Democrats of any candidate remaining in the Democratic primary race whose first name is not “Bernie.”
Perhaps the most obvious examples were the outrages of the recent Iowa caucuses. Apart from the $800,000 anti-Bernie ad campaign by an operative of AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the brazen attempt to undermine Sanders’s victory and promote a new ABB champion stands out.
With Biden faltering, though still polling top numbers in Iowa, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) through its Iowa surrogates, manipulated the results to dump Biden and instal a younger, glitzier opponent to the grumpy, stoop-shouldered Sanders. Out of nowhere, the energetic, but hollow small-town mayor, Pete Buttigieg, was boosted into the primary lead by hook and by crook.
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