Israel and the US talk as if they’ve won a victory, but the reality is that world opinion has turned decisively against the Israeli regime, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Health privatisation failed, why does it keep coming back?
HELEN O'CONNOR reviews the very recent disasters from attempts to use private companies and private finance instead of a publicly funded NHS — now this discredited approach is back to 'drive down waiting lists'
Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting says he'd use the private sector to bring down NHS waiting lists – but the strategy is a proven failure
SOLOMON HUGHES finds one-time Cameron-centrist EU fans now promote vicious anti-migrant rhetoric in their bid to get attention for their ailing party
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
Modi has rolled out the carpet for the Taliban in New Delhi — and we shouldn’t be surprised. They have more in common than you might think, argues Bhabani Shankar Nayak
HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
THERE can be no doubt that the pandemic is putting unprecedented strain on the NHS — but decades of cuts and privatisation have also contributed to the current chaos.
Far from ensuring that the NHS retains experienced staff or allocating adequate funding to provide care, this government is still demanding that NHS trusts stick to rigorous financial targets and false performance indicators in order to avoid having further funding removed.
As NHS trusts struggle to balance the books, public money is being funnelled to the private sector to solve a crisis that is deliberately being created by this government and further exacerbated by the pandemic.
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