By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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Land of the free (but only if you’re rich and white)
The US has pushed through 40 new pieces of legislation to restrict voting rights since 2021 - so how can it claim to be a beacon of democracy, asks ROGER McKENZIE
People cast their ballots at Coit Arts Academy in Grand Rapids on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
WE HAVE always been led to believe that the United States is the leader of the free world. They are, after all, allegedly, the “land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Of course this has only ever really applied to people who were or are white and Anglo-Saxon.
The indigenous population of the land now known as America or the millions enslaved onto the plantations of North America would find it hard to believe in the freedom and democracy proposition.
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