As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Elon Musk and Twitter: all that is solid melts into air
KEITH FLETT pours scorn on the liberal-minded pretensions of the ‘world's richest man’ and his claim that Twitter can be an open forum for free debate, somehow abstracted from the perversions of capitalism
The Twitter social media app showing Elon Musk running on a mobile phone
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
ELON MUSK, who claims to be the world’s richest man (and also probably the most indebted one), has bought the social media giant Twitter.
In doing so, he has sacked, often illegally, thousands of Twitter employees, and raised the question of whether it will continue at all.
As often with capitalism, appearance and reality differ. Twitter is a free-to-use platform for anyone to raise and discuss more or less anything, with limited constraints. That means it has numbers of racists and fascists using it, but also significant use by those from marginalised areas of society that the mainstream media reliably ignores.
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