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
Why was a US anti-war campaigner no-platformed in Illinois?
British peace activists speak out in defence of Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq, after she was cancelled from an event for her views on the politics of sex and gender
Cindy Sheehan along with some Morning Star headlines from 2005
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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
TOWARDS the end of last month, independent US online radio station Women’s Liberation Radio News broadcast an interview that merits considerable further attention — particularly for those involved in the peace movement and other progressive politics.
The interviewee will be a name that’s familiar to Morning Star readers from the height of the battle against the murderous crimes being committed by the US and Britain in Iraq as part of George Bush and Tony Blair’s so-called “war on terror.”
Cindy Sheehan hit the news in the mid-2000s after her son Casey was killed while serving in the Iraq war. Following his death Sheehan became a staunch anti-war and anti-imperialism activist, setting up a protest camp, dubbed “Camp Casey,” outside Bush’s Texas ranch, which garnered media attention from around the world.
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