By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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History unearthed: what if Trump succeeded in ethnically cleansing Gaza?
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
A man stands amid the rubble of homes, destroyed by the Israeli army's air and ground offensive against Hamas in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip on February 19, 2025
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
“I’ve read 25 books” on the Middle East, Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, said in a 2020 interview. Such intellectual bravado wouldn’t matter if it weren’t for the fact that Kushner served as the president’s Middle East adviser, and was essentially the main architect of Trump’s policies in the Middle East.
It goes without saying that Trump’s policies in the region were a failure and, in fact, fuelled the events that followed his departure, leading to the genocidal war in Gaza.
Trump’s successor didn’t fare any better, as the Joe Biden administration largely adhered to Trump’s major mistakes and ultimately sustained the Israeli genocide, which killed and wounded— per the latest estimates — over 160,000.
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