Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
INSTITUTIONAL food is very telling about our society.
The opening of an article in the Guardian by Frances Crook, the outgoing chief executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform (The reform of prisons has been my life’s work, but they are still utterly broken, August 10 2021), is stark and truly heart-breaking: “Nobody really cares about prisons.”
She declares the state of our prison system as her “most bitter regret” in an article that will be an eye-opener for a lot of people.
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE



