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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Despite climate change and pollution, it was a bumper year for returning wildlife in and around Britain's seas — PETER FROST gets his feet wet in this review of Britain’s marine scene
After 30 years puffins are back on the Isle of Man
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
TO MARK the arrival of 2022, the Wildlife Trust’s Living Seas team have compiled their highs and lows of the last 12 months from around Britain.
Some of them I mentioned in an earlier more general countryside review — but this new maritime report has some conservation successes, as well as noting the increasing disruption to our seas.
Climate catastrophe is disrupting marine life just as much as it does life on land. Also a big increase in disturbance to marine life from human activities is harming marine plants and animals.
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