As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
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ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
“A LIE can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Mark Twain.
The fourth estate has not exactly covered itself in glory of late, which is pretty much par for the course. But even by its own legendarily barrel-scraping standards it has outdone itself in the last few weeks in the craven toadying stakes.
First up there was coverage of the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 with the loss of almost 300 lives. The wreckage had hardly cooled when the propaganda machine kicked into gear and the finger of blame started being pointed.
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