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Features / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR
The Palisades Fire that started in the City of Los Angeles,
Books / 1 April 2025
1 April 2025
IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade
Features / 29 March 2025
29 March 2025
Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
Album reviews / 24 March 2025
24 March 2025
New releases from Black Country, New Road, Anouar Brahem, and Jaywalkers
The US-based MSG group wanted to build one of their light-po
Features / 9 January 2025
9 January 2025
IAN SINCLAIR tells the story of a small group of east London activists who took on and defeated a billion-dollar US corporation that wanted to build a giant sphere venue coated in gaudy LED lights
FINGERS IN THE SYRIAN PIE: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer a
Features / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025
The media’s shocking lack of interest in US-British involvement in Syria means it has effectively been a secret war, argues IAN SINCLAIR
Music / 12 December 2024
12 December 2024
New releases from Ghais Guevara, Kim Deal and Hardwicke Circus
Bill Breeden talks to the press after the execution of Corey
Features / 9 December 2024
9 December 2024
Ian Sinclair talks to BILL BREEDEN, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister living in southern Indiana, and a longstanding opponent of the death penalty in the United States
ARCHITECTS OF SLAUGHTER : Jonathan Powell (right)and Alastai
Features / 23 November 2024
23 November 2024
The British press has welcomed Keir Starmer’s new National Security Adviser without any mention of his deep, central involvement in the criminal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan — but history remembers, writes IAN SINCLAIR
ACTION: A Fossil Free London activist disrupts the 2023 Shel
Features / 9 November 2024
9 November 2024
As a new report reveals how dire the climate situation is now, other recent research demonstrates how activism – namely Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes – has already forced governments into action, writes IAN SINCLAIR
FUELLING CONFLICT: Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte (right)
Features / 19 October 2024
19 October 2024
Ian Sinclair interviews MEDEA BENJAMIN and DAVID SWANSON about their new book on Nato, explaining how the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia established a template for military interventions, undermining international law and diplomacy
From left to right: Leslie Barson (Peace News Ltd director a
Features / 28 September 2024
28 September 2024
IAN SINCLAIR mourns the end of the longstanding activist newspaper that proudly stood ‘For Revolutionary Nonviolence’
PEACE RADICAL: James Lawson in 2013
Obituary / 3 September 2024
3 September 2024
Strategist of non-violent action dies age 95
Just Stop Oil protesters take part in a walking protest bloc
Features / 24 August 2024
24 August 2024
Social scientist DANA R FISHER speaks to Ian Sinclair about the efficacy of disruptive actions carried out by groups such as Just Stop Oil, the conditions that might generate a truly mass climate mobilisation, and what a win for Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election would mean
AUTHORITARIAN: Crown Prince of Kuwait, Sheikh Mishal al-Ahma
Features / 19 July 2024
19 July 2024
Why has our government been silent on the months-long shutdown of Kuwait’s parliament – and why do academics so often refrain from criticising countries in the region, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Mourners attend the funeral of Muhammad Sarhan,15, in the We
Features / 14 July 2024
14 July 2024
From Palestine to Cameroon, ELLEN FURNARI speaks to Ian Sinclair about how non-violent strategies and local relationships offer effective alternatives to military interventions in protecting civilians from conflict
SCARING THE ELITES: An anti-war march in Manchester city cen
Features / 29 June 2024
29 June 2024
Statistics show conclusively that the majority of Brits have repeatedly frightened the Establishment by consistently opposing military adventurism abroad, writes IAN SINCLAIR
roups including Friends of the Earth Scotland, Stop Climate
Features / 14 May 2024
14 May 2024
Major cities underwater, a billion climate refugees — many scientists now expect societal collapse due to climate change. Yet from the political elite here in Britain, we have nothing even approaching acknowledgement, writes IAN SINCLAIR
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at its headquart
Features / 6 May 2024
6 May 2024
Ian Sinclair speaks to SUSAN WILLIAMS about Britain and the US’s dark machinations against African leaders and nations they decided were at odds with their geopolitical interests in the 20th century — and the ongoing cover-up attempts
DISSUADED: Disengaged members of the public watch Extinction
Books / 29 April 2024
29 April 2024
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change
LINKING THE MOVEMENTS: NHS staff show their support for prot
Features / 2 April 2024
2 April 2024
Speaking to RUPERT READ, Ian Sinclair discusses the urgency of climate action, the demise of the 1.5°C target, and the pivotal role of trade unions in building a majority against climate change
GAZA ON MY MIND: School and university students take part in
Features / 24 February 2024
24 February 2024
When a government seems impossible to influence over an issue as life-or-death as war, it can lead those people left unheard to creative non-violent direct action — or to deadly brutality, warns IAN SINCLAIR
PEACE IS NOT AN OPTION: Prime minister Boris Johnson in Kyiv
Features / 14 February 2024
14 February 2024
A new report analyses how Western messaging during and after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine portrayed Russia’s motivations as pure, unprovoked expansionism — all in aid of prolonging the violence, explains IAN SINCLAIR
Music / 29 January 2024
29 January 2024
New releases from: Pharoah Sanders, Bill Ryder-Jones and Violent Femmes