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Donald Trump attacks China to win the election
With little hope of success in the US presidential elections in November this year, Trump is taking desperate measures to win another term, says PETER FROST
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
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
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
WITH the latest opinion polls showing Joe Biden leading Donald Trump by 53 per cent to 42 per cent, Trump needs desperate measures. First he tried to postpone the elections — with no success.
Now his main strategy is to up the ante against Beijing. Last weekend he announced yet again that China had caused great damage to the United States and the rest of the world over its handling of the coronavirus crisis.
As on many previous occasions, Trump has made exaggerated and often nonsensical accusations about China’s role in the pandemic.
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