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
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Journalists must be able to work safely, free from attack
Online abuse and threats towards journalists are part of a broader decline in standards in the public sphere, writes NUJ leader MICHELLE STANISTREET
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
I HAVE lost count in the past year or more — or however long it has been since the world seemed to upend itself — of the occasions when it seemed a new low has been struck in what are parlous and depressing levels of public discourse in Britain.
Whether it is manufactured outrage, coordinated social media pile-ons, the trumping of common sense by determined political ideology or ill thought-out knee-jerk commentary — or a combination of all of those things — the cumulative impact is of dysfunctional engagement and weakening standards in public life.
Whatever the motivations, and whether or not it happens in the online sphere, it has a real-life personal and professional impact — not least for individuals caught up in the online fallout, where aggressive and hostile voices are often amplified even if the number of trolls leading the charge are comparatively few.
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