Lasting peace requires the establishment of justice, the formation of an independent Palestinian state, and respect for the national sovereignty of the Palestinian people, writes NAVID SHOMALI
 
			PREDICTABLY enough the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine provided the media with a hook on which to hang a barrage of war propaganda.
Over recent weeks US officials – State Department and some Pentagon – have been trying hard to sustain a narrative that China is likely to supply Russia with weapons.
This is at a piece with the broad US strategy of leveraging the conflict in Ukraine to boost an Atlanticist project to trap Europe in a more antagonistic relationship with China.
 
               US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
 
               
 
               


 
               