Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
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The rabble have been cleared away in DC but don't think the chaos is over: the world's greatest superpower is in rapid decline and neither Trump's tribalism or Biden's return to 'neoliberal normality' will reverse this, writes JOHN WIGHT
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
TRUMP is the US’s Nero. His elevation to the office of president in 2016 was not the aberration his liberal detractors argued. Rather it was a symptom of US imperial decline, the first seeds of which were planted with the evacuation of the US Embassy in Saigon in 1975, setting in train a process that was deferred by the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s after Moscow’s own Vietnam in Afghanistan in the 1980s ended in similar fashion.
The invasion of Iraq by US military forces and its British ally came over a decade into the US’s unipolar moment, when imbued with triumphalism and End of History hubris, the George W Bush neocon administration set about shaping the world in its own image with the objective of establishing a new Pax America.
Iraq was intended as the first of what was envisaged would be a domino effect to assert complete dominance over the strategically vital Middle East in conjunction with its Israeli and Saudi allies, thus injecting an increasingly untenable hyper-capitalist economic model with the invaluable input of new natural resources and the expanded output offered by new markets.
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