Following a fratricidal period for the left with Morales and Arce at loggerheads, right-wing, anti-MAS candidates obtained over 85 per cent of the votes cast in the latest general election, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ

TWO days before its welcome end, the Trump regime’s “1776 Commission” released a new report, designed, said a White House statement, to counter efforts “to reframe American history around the idea that the United States is not an exceptional country but an evil one.”
With consistent insensitivity, it chose Martin Luther King Jr Day to disseminate its “patriotic education curriculum,” which, among other things, justified the hypocrisy of the founding fathers for holding slaves while criticising the institution of slavery.
It also took a pointed shot at Marxism which it described as a “radical rejection of human dignity.”

Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter

Starmer’s decision to recognise Palestine only as long as Israel continues to massacre its inhabitants has been met with outrage, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

The crew of the Freedom Flotilla boat, Handala, warned Israel to obey international law but are now in captivity, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER