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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The tale of a US spy plane over the South China Sea
While the US claimed China intercepted its reconnaissance aircraft ‘unprofessionally,’ it failed to mention the spy plane’s proximity to mainland China and People’s Liberation Army training exercises, reports PEOPLE’S DISPATCH
CLOSE CALL: The Chinese J-16 seen in a video shot from the US RC-135 spy plane
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
ON Wednesday May 31, China strongly rejected the US version of an incident involving planes from the two countries over the South China sea.
The previous day, the US Indo-Pacific Command had released a video and announced that a Chinese military jet had made an “unnecessarily aggressive manoeuvre” near a US military aircraft.
The incident, which supposedly took place on May 26, comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two nations.
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