There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
From the IMF to Brics: the emerging multipolar order and the imperialist backlash
New alliances like Brics are forging a multilateral world as the global South nations assert their true independence after almost a century of nominal sovereignty under the reality of crushing economic servitude, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu (centre) and other participants pose for a photo during their meeting on the sidelines of the meeting of Brics and Brics Plus High-Level Security Officials in St Petersburg, Russia, September 10, 2024
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
MOST people on the planet do not live within the borders of the former colonial powers — but they have been dominated by them for most of the last 500 years.
But the good news is we are now at a major geopolitical tipping point, and the global majority is rising up and constructing a new world.
There are no demands for change as if permission were required; the vast majority of the global population is simply going about the business of constructing a new way of doing things that breaks away from the rule of the minority.
More from this author
