Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
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It is three in the morning and PETER FROST is awaken by a truly Wagnerian thunderstorm — it turns out to be the mother of scores of shitstorms all around Britain’s coast
(L to R) Cartoon by JAB; Hastings and St Leonards Clean Water Action, protest against raw sewage release incidents on the beach in St Leonards, Sussex last Friday
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Karl and Eleanor Marx – father and daughter – share the credit for a pamphlet which was widely read as an introduction or alternative to his longer Capital and is still relevant today, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
With US sanctions, military pressure and electoral interference looming, the struggle over Colombia’s sovereignty — and the fate of its fragile peace process — has reached a critical moment, says NICK MacWILLIAM
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
IT was the middle of the night — nearer three in the morning in fact - when I was woken from my slumbers by the sound of thunder and bright flashes of lightning combined with the lovely sound of huge walnuts of raindrops knocking on the windows.
I’d left the bedroom windows wide open to combat the heavy heat of the day but it was still uncomfortably hot and sweaty so the storm was a refreshing blessing — like manna from heaven indeed. Both I and my parched garden simply needed the rain, and the more the better.
I little realised just what a terrible effect all that rain would have nationwide nor that it would introduce a brand new word into my vocabulary.
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