MBDA’s Alabama factory makes components for Boeing’s GBU-39 bombs used to kill civilians in Gaza. Its profits flow through Stevenage to Paris — and it is one of the British government’s favourite firms, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Brexit blame game risks destroying our democracy
By casting Parliament as the people’s enemy, Johnson is recklessly creating space for the far right to thrive, warns CHARLEY ALLAN
President Maduro mobilises the 4.5 million-strong Bolivarian National Militia in response to US ‘threats’, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence, DEVIN B MARTINEZ reports
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
After almost two decades of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism, once led by Evo Morales, right-wing parties have emerged in the lead after the first round of elections on August 17 and are now in control of the legislature, reports PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID MATTHEWS looks at what a collective future for welfare might have in store for us
AS TORY election strategies go, “people versus Parliament” is possibly the most dangerous and divisive narrative since “strivers versus skivers.”
Both soundbites tear at the fabric of civilised society, but while David Cameron was content to turn the working poor against the unemployed, Boris Johnson seems prepared to destroy democracy itself to hold on to power.
Parliament has indeed been locked in conflict for years — but against the government, not the people. As Jeremy Corbyn says: “Parliament is the people.”
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