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
Sardinian anti-Isis fighters targeted by the Italian state
Arrests of Sardinian activists expose the imperialist war network and those fighting it, writes ROSA GILBERT
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
The arrests of Sardinian independence activists involved in Kurdish solidarity activism in September signals a troubling new development in the Italian state’s participation in the criminalisation of the Kurdish struggle.
It also reveals a key nexus of the imperialist war machine that is perhaps not so well known in Britain.
The vast, barren landscapes of Sardinia which give it its wild sense of beauty provide the perfect environment for military infrastructure and practice sites and its location in the Mediterranean makes it conveniently positioned for conflicts, real and potential, in the Middle East.
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