Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
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A shortage of shit
Seems unbelievable with Johnson as Prime Minister and all his ministers, but PETER FROST reports on a dramatic shortage of excrement
FROM EACH ACCORDING TO ABILITY: (L to R) A willet doing what willets do on beaches and African bush elephant dung in Etosha National Park, Namibia
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Karl and Eleanor Marx – father and daughter – share the credit for a pamphlet which was widely read as an introduction or alternative to his longer Capital and is still relevant today, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
With US sanctions, military pressure and electoral interference looming, the struggle over Colombia’s sovereignty — and the fate of its fragile peace process — has reached a critical moment, says NICK MacWILLIAM
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
SO WHAT do you call it? Shite perhaps — that “e” makes it much more polite, or poo, crap, excrement, stools, faeces, dung, faecal matter, manure or even good old number twos.
Shakespeare’s Juliet said: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” and whatever you call it, the sweet and smelly stuff will always smell just as sweet and smelly.
Today despite the vast increase in human population there is massive shortage of the stuff that is so important to nourish all kinds of organisms further down the food chain both on land and sea.
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