Once the bustling heart of Christian pilgrimage, Bethlehem now faces shuttered hotels, empty streets and a shrinking Christian community, while Israel’s assault on Gaza and the tightening grip of occupation destroy hopes of peace at the birthplace of Christ, writes Father GEOFF BOTTOMS
The US liberal elite are lying about Bernie
It is still Sanders, not 'senile' Biden, who has the best chance of beating Trump — but the mainstream, ‘centrist’ media will say anything to convince voters otherwise
After years hidden away, Oldham’s memorial to six local volunteers who died fighting fascism in the Spanish civil war has been restored to public view, marking both a victory for campaigners and a renewed tribute to the town’s proud International Brigade heritage, says ROB HARGREAVES
The June 2025 attacks on Iran have heightened the risk of a wider war, exposed the fiction of a rules-based international order and left ordinary Iranians trapped between external aggression and internal repression, says the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
While pretending to seek peace, Europe is heading toward a collision course with Russia – using security guarantees, troop deployments, expropriation and censorship as tools, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
A WWI hero, renowned ornithologist, medical doctor, trade union organiser and founder member of the Communist Party of Great Britain all rolled in one. MAT COWARD tells the story of a life so improbable it was once dismissed as fiction
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IF you have followed the race to be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States you’ll have heard the argument a lot: Bernie Sanders, the social democratic senator from Vermont, would never beat sitting US President Donald Trump.
Indeed since Super Tuesday, when Democratic supporters in a slew of states voted on who should face Trump in November 2020, this assertion has become more prevalent — with an additional clause: it is former vice-president Joe Biden, not Sanders, who is best positioned to defeat Trump.
Even commentators who profess to support Sanders’s policies make this argument. After telling Channel 4 News he agrees with Sanders on “an awful lot of political issues,” Eric Alterman, a columnist at the left-leaning Nation magazine, said he fears the example of Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. If Sanders ran against Trump “it would be the end of the American republic,” he said.
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