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DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
So, there we go then… The gloves and masks are off and all it’s done is expose the hypocrisy and incompetence of each and every party involved in the Scottish independence “debate.”
I use the term advisedly as there has been no real debate whatsoever. That would imply a degree of tolerance for divergent opinion which has definitely not been manifest over the last year or so.
This column has been largely quiet on the issue of Scottish independence, which seems to have whipped most of the media into a jingoistic frenzy.
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