Trump’s escalation against Venezuela is about more than oil, it is about regaining control over the ‘natural’ zone of influence of the United States at a moment where its hegemony is slipping, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
The Sound of Silence – a politics beyond breakdown
The world faces huge threats that know no national boundaries. ALAN SIMPSON asks where is the radical thinking needed to meet these challenges
Residents walk through flood water in Retford in Nottinghamshire, after Storm Babet battered the UK, causing widespread flooding and high winds.
Evidence suggests Lammy’s proposals would come at a high cost: reduced fairness, diminished trust and greater racial inequality in the criminal justice system, argue TARA LAI QUINLAN and KATHARINA KARCHER
From the workhouses of the 1840s to today’s market capitalism, A Christmas Carol remains a sharp critique of charity rationed by class, says KEITH FLETT
The argument for a “significant expansion” of nuclear power will deliver soaring electricity prices that condemn underserved communities to unending hardship and poverty, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The new plan sets out an uncompromising bid for global dominance, casting even allies as obstacles to be subdued, writes DIANE ABBOTT
As we approach the half-anniversary of the Grenfell tragedy, the community gathers to remember loved ones while grappling with mixed emotions surrounding the ongoing deconstruction of the tower and the hopeful plans for a memorial, writes EMMA DENT COAD
IT’S HARD to focus on anything other than Gaza at the moment. Its incessant bombing won’t have had anyone celebrating Paul Simon’s 82nd birthday by singing “Hello darkness, my old friend...”
By margins that are difficult to comprehend, we are well beyond Israel’s credible limits of “legitimate self defence.”
The collective punishment of Palestinians — from the denial of food, water and electricity to the bombing of hospitals and the demand that one million people evacuate their homes — has filled all the news coverage that followed the Hamas’s atrocities.
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