A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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JULIAN VIGO looks at how the Democrats became the war hawk party
US President Joe Biden speaks before signing two bills aimed at combating fraud in the Covid-19 small business relief programs Friday, August 5, 2022, at the White House in Washington
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The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
I HAVE been noticing it since the US global war on terror. Just three days after September 11 2001, Congress took up a short Bill, the 2001 Authorisation for Use of Military Force, which gave the president the power to use all “necessary and appropriate force” against virtually anyone, anywhere, at any time; and its initial intended use was to launch the invasion of Afghanistan.
The Democrats supported this Bill, with the one exception of Congresswoman Barbara Lee from Oakland, California, who faced death threats as the only lawmaker voting against military conflict.
More recently, the Democrats have lent unanimous support for what was to be a $33 billion war package ostensibly with an eye toward funding Ukraine, but what in reality are funds that will go into the coffers of weapons manufacturers such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and the usual suspects and the CIA.
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