ROGER McKENZIE looks at how US doublespeak on the ‘war on drugs’ is used to camouflage its intended grab for of Latin America’s natural resources
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Scotland has a government more interested in performance than policy
STEPHEN LOW casts a sceptical eye on a supposedly ‘new era’ for the SNP under Humza Yousaf
GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS: New SNP leader Humza Yousaf
Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
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The US assault on Venezuela is brazen and unlawful – yet our PM claims uncertainty. By refusing to confront Trump’s naked imperialism, Starmer abandons international law, mortgages British policy to Washington, and clears the ground for war, argues ANDREW MURRAY
RAINER RUPP examines former CIA analyst Larry Johnson’s description of the US operation to kidnap Nicolas Maduro as a tactically successful but strategically disastrous move, with shades of Bush’s disastrous intervention in Iraq
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western outrage was absolute. Yet today, the tone is markedly more subdued regarding US aggression against Venezuela. The manner in which the media and politicians frame this invasion exposes a profound ideological double standard, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
“ALL WE ask is the opportunity to serve,” said Humza Yousaf on becoming SNP leader.
That he chose to quote Labour’s John Smith was a marvellously telling moment.
Not, though, because there is much political overlap between Smith’s mildly reformist social democracy and the SNP’s palliative neoliberalism. Rather it was illustrative of the gulf between appearance and reality in governing Scotland.
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