Since Ahmad al-Sharaa came to power in Syria, the Damascus government has been given carte blanche to use maximum force against any threat to its continued rule, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Trump proposes dumping migrants into Guatemala, a supposedly ‘safe third country’
Ravaged by years of war, genocide and oppression of the indigenous and the poor, Guatemala is no safe haven for migrants, says EMILE SCHEPERS
Members of the special force's ‘Kaibiles’ — a company with a long list of human rights abuses and atrocities to its name — march during a military parade on June 30, 2019
Keir Starmer’s hiring Tim Allan from Tory-led Strand Partners is another illustration of Labour’s corporate-influence world where party differences matter less than business connections, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Britain’s proud asylum history, from sheltering the Kindertransport escaping Hitler to Basque children fleeing fascist Spain, required tireless campaigning against persistent opposition — and it’s up to all of us to do our part today, writes SABINA PRICE
The truth will out: we are here to unveil the full scale of the government’s complicity in genocide and to hold it to account for the monstrous bloodshed in Palestine, writes JEREMY CORBYN
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
KEITH BENNETT reflects on witnessing the grand parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of China’s Victory Day, which impressively showcased advanced military technology
THE horrific image of a drowned father and his little daughter in the Rio Grande on the US-Mexico border has intensified efforts in and out of Congress to deal with the situation of refugees and migrants trying to reach the United States from the Northern Triangle of Central America — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador — and points beyond.
Unfortunately, most of the solutions proposed by US politicians do not deal with the root causes of this surge in cross-border migration, which is a worldwide phenomenon.
And one “solution” being developed by the Trump administration promises to make the situation worse for many migrants and refugees.
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