VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
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ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
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FOREIGN OFFICE documents from then-foreign secretary James Cleverly’s 2023 Israel visit show the British government likes Israeli arms firm Elbit precisely because its kit is proven by war on Gaza.
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This January I asked the Foreign Office (FCDO) for papers on the trip under freedom of information rules.
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