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The Financial Times’s habit of wishful thinking
It is said the Financial Times is read by those who own the country. ROB GRIFFITHS takes it to task over the accuracy of its reporting as well as the politically reactionary agenda behind it
Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ is not a peace project, but a war and colonial council that renews Western colonialism, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
The US attack on Venezuela raises grave threats to Cuba and the region, writes NATASHA HICKMAN of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Trump’s vision of ‘might is right’ signals the collapse of the postwar order — and a warning of who may be next, warns BOB ORAM
ROGER McKENZIE pays tribute to a communist, internationalist and organiser, who endures, 50 years after his death, not just as a towering artist but as a master teacher of struggle
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY reflects on 2025, tracing how war, imperialism, shrinking democratic spaces and neoliberal restructuring shaped global and Indian politics – pointing towards the urgent task of building a more democratic and just future
The old aphorism had it that the Daily Express is read by those who think the country should be run like it used to be run; the Daily Telegraph by those who think the country still is run like it used to be run; the Times by those who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail by the wives of those who run the country; the Guardian by those who think that they should run the country and the Financial Times by those who own the country.
Unfair and ruder things were said, respectively, about the Morning Star and the Sun.
But the truth about the Financial Times endures, although those who rule the country on behalf of its owners read that paper every day as well. They are not interested in reading the crude, lying propaganda that is fed to the masses by the gutter press. They want facts — about the economy, business, trade, commerce, finance, energy, the environment, markets, politics and power — and well-informed, perceptive analysis and comment.
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