The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
Democracy or Pinochetism is the stark choice facing Chileans tomorrow
HUGO GUZMAN shares his trepidation on the eve of the mandatory election of the Constitutional Council
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
TOMORROW around 15 million Chileans will have to vote to select the 50 members of the Constitutional Council that will draft a new proposal for a constitution, after a majority of 62 to 38 per cent had voted to rejected the first proposal for a new and radical Magna Carta on September 4 2022.
Five separate lists of candidates are presented for election. Unity for Chile (made up of the Communist, Socialist, Humanist Action and Broad Front parties) and All for Chile (which brings together two social democratic parties of the Party for Democracy and the Radical Party, and the Christian Democrats) are the two representing the ruling coalition of the Gabriel Boric government.
The opposition lists are formed by the traditional right-wing parties (Renovacion Nacional, Union Democrata Independiente and Evolucion Politica).
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