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
US Capitol invasion: the second instalment of the American Civil War
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
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
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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