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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Red China, fake meat: why veganism rises in the East
PETER FROST’s granddaughter Lizzie introduces him to the growing support for plant-based proteins in the People's Republic that could beat their reliance on beef and soya bean imports — and help hit their commitment to reducing climate change
The company Beyond Meat has recently opened a plant near Shanghai — its first manufacturing centre outside of the US
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
REGULAR readers of my Ramblings will have been introduced to my granddaughter Lizzie before.
Lizzie has just finished a degree in International Relations and Chinese at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas), University of London.
She is also student digital ambassador for Soas where one of her most recent blogs (easy to find online) was entitled Plant-based proteins: a key to achieving China’s climate commitments?
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