By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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Still bleeding Africa dry
From slavery to colonialism to the modern era of ‘full-spectrum dominance,’ the West has never released its grip on the continent or its people, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Workers mine cobalt without equipment in Democratic Republic of Congo
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
THE current scramble between the major powers for influence over African nations is a battle for the natural resources that exist on the continent which are vital to sustaining the economies and lifestyles of the West.
Stripped down to bare bones: it’s a question of safeguarding and increasing profits.
The US, at least, can’t be accused of pretending anything other than profits are its main motivator. The US doctrine of full-spectrum dominance has been clear about this since it was adopted in 1997.
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