The question is not simply how much we spend on defence, but what we understand defence and security to mean, says SIMON BRIGNELL
The missing question: what does Gaza want?
It is clear now beyond any doubt that Israel aims to destroy Gaza and annex the West Bank. As the Palestinian resistance has shown this is not possible, will the West start listening to the Palestinian people, asks RAMZY BAROUD
LIVES REDUCED TO TATTERS: Displaced Palestinians arrive in central Gaza after being expelled by the Israeli army from Rafah on Wednesday
Given the recent rejection of peace proposals by Israel the world must provide an immediate and resolute response to force accountability on Gaza, argues RAMZY BAROUD
MARK SEDDON tries to cool off in the countryside to avoid the heatwaves but the greed and incompetence of the privatised water industry is now at boiling point
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
by Her Excellency Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to the United Kingdom
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Those who insist on using “neutral” language in depicting the crisis in Palestine are harming the Palestinian people beyond their seemingly innocuous words.
This morally non-committal, middle-ground language is now at work in Gaza. Here, the harm of this “impartiality” is greatest.
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