Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Time to stop Trump
The West’s “war on terror”, as predicted 20 years ago, has not diminished terrorism but increased it, argues LINDSEY GERMAN
Cartoon: JAY
YANA PETTICREW explains what’s behind the strike and how the entire sector rests on super-exploiting an unorganised workforce
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
WITHIN a few days of a new year and a new decade, Donald Trump sent the world a message that it certainly is not going to be peaceful.
His illegal and reckless acts threaten to plunge the Middle East into even worse wars than have been seen up to now. And yet again, politicians around the world – not least in Britain – are refusing to learn the lessons of past wars, and denigrate and abuse anyone who tells them differently.
The assassination of Qassem Soleimani last week has made the world a more dangerous place. That is the only conclusion one can draw from the further threats by Trump to attack Iran sites, including cultural ones, and now the retaliation by Iran with missile strikes on US bases.
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