MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
How Nato went rogue
TOMASZ PIERSCIONEK welcomes a succinct demonstration of how Nato became a vehicle for the US to pursue its dreams of global dominance
WAR NOT PEACE EVERYTIME: US 82nd airborne division paratroopers prepare to be flown out Pope army airfield, NC in February 2022 - 2,000 of whom will be deployed in coordination with the Polish government to increase US presence and activities in Europe as part of strong and unremitting commitment to our Nato allies
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
A New Awakening: Adventures In British Jazz 1966 - 1971, G3, and Buck Owens
JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
Nato: What You Need to Know
Medea Benjamin and David Swanson, OR books, £12.99
TO mark the 75th anniversary of Nato’s creation, veteran anti-war activists Medea Benjamin and David Swanson have published a book that explores the alliance’s origins and critiques its role in global affairs over the past several decades.
The authors produce a much needed antidote to the pervasive propaganda that claims Nato makes the world a safer place.
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As the alliance gathers in DC, its leaders will push for endless war in Ukraine and ignore the public appetite for peace talks. The world can’t afford to wait for this nuclear-armed war machine to dissolve itself, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
