With its track record of leveraging cultural power for US gain and barely concealed promotion of coup attempts, the US Agency for International Development will not be mourned among the US’s southern neighbours, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER D HARRIS
Israel’s war crimes in Gaza
With the death toll now over 20,000, and just about 1 per cent of the Palestinian population in Gaza wiped out, still no let-up to the Israeli bombardment is in sight, warns VIJAY PRASHAD
KEITH FLETT looks back 50 years to when the Iron Lady was elected Tory leader…
Social security is lagging further and further behind inflation and our government quite simply does not care, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH agues that much as social media are presently guilty of fanning hostilities, the roots of it lie with decades of xenophobic narratives peddled by politicians and the traditional media
ESTHER, from Nordic Model Now! explains how decriminalisation of prostitution, rendering it just another form of ‘work’, would undermine the Equality Act 2010
As a partial successor to the post-war Marshall Plan, USAid is not simply a humanitarian aid programme, but is involved in projecting US power as an instrument of foreign policy, argues NICK WRIGHT
Locals have been let down by procrastination over the upgrade to Ardrossan Harbour, says KATY CLARK MSP
ON THE night of December 19 2023, Israeli military forces surrounded the al-Awda building in Gaza City’s al-Remal neighbourhood. Four families were inside the building, including the Annan family, after whom the building is popularly known as the “Annan Building.”
The al-Remal area, along the Gaza coastline, was a middle-class area of apartment buildings. During the early days of the war, the Israelis cruelly bombed this residential area, turning this residential quarter into rubble.
Some buildings — such as the Annan Building — remained intact and had become shelters for extended families. Israeli forces raided the building, separated the men from the women and children and then shot to death about 15 of the men. According to the United Nations, the Israeli military then “allegedly ordered the women and children into a room, and either shot at them or threw a grenade into the room, reportedly seriously injuring some of them, including an infant and a child.”
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