ROGER McKENZIE looks at how US doublespeak on the ‘war on drugs’ is used to camouflage its intended grab for of Latin America’s natural resources
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Nato cranks up confrontation with Russia
The irrational hatred towards Russia within Western elites and their subsequent actions put the people of the EU in mortal danger, writes RAINER RUPP
NATO ULTERIOR MOTIVES: (Above) Oil tanker Eagle S, pictured on January 7, suspected of the disruption of the Finland-Estonia power cable Estlink-2, is kept anchored near the Kilpilahti port in Porvoo, on the Gulf of Finland
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Plans to delay access to the universal credit health element until age 22 have triggered fierce opposition from disabled people’s groups, who warn it would deepen poverty and entrench discrimination against young disabled people under the guise of ‘encouraging work.’ DYLAN MURPHY reports
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The US assault on Venezuela is brazen and unlawful – yet our PM claims uncertainty. By refusing to confront Trump’s naked imperialism, Starmer abandons international law, mortgages British policy to Washington, and clears the ground for war, argues ANDREW MURRAY
RAINER RUPP examines former CIA analyst Larry Johnson’s description of the US operation to kidnap Nicolas Maduro as a tactically successful but strategically disastrous move, with shades of Bush’s disastrous intervention in Iraq
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western outrage was absolute. Yet today, the tone is markedly more subdued regarding US aggression against Venezuela. The manner in which the media and politicians frame this invasion exposes a profound ideological double standard, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
IT APPEARS that the Biden administration, shortly before its departure, has instructed an escalation of tensions in the Baltic Sea with the potential for direct military confrontation with Russia.
Over the past years, the behaviour of European states suggests that all such action was directed by Washington. What is currently being orchestrated in the Baltic Sea can only be described as irrational and therefore highly dangerous.
Let us summarise what is happening. Under the pretext that the EU has the authority to impose sanctions on deliveries of Russian oil and gas that do not even enter the territorial waters of EU member states but merely pass through international shipping lanes, ordinary oil tankers from various owners and origins are labelled as a “shadow fleet.”
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