MBDA’s Alabama factory makes components for Boeing’s GBU-39 bombs used to kill civilians in Gaza. Its profits flow through Stevenage to Paris — and it is one of the British government’s favourite firms, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
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Under current plans we will never house our homeless
All the government is doing is lining the pockets of developers with taxpayers’ money, says EMMA DENT COAD
President Maduro mobilises the 4.5 million-strong Bolivarian National Militia in response to US ‘threats’, vowing to defend the country’s sovereignty and independence, DEVIN B MARTINEZ reports
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
For those in the West, hunger is often just the familiar feeling of a growling stomach between meals — in Gaza, it has become a strategic weapon of slow, systematic and deadly destruction, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
After almost two decades of rule by the Movement Toward Socialism, once led by Evo Morales, right-wing parties have emerged in the lead after the first round of elections on August 17 and are now in control of the legislature, reports PABLO MERIGUET
DAVID MATTHEWS looks at what a collective future for welfare might have in store for us
IN 1966, leading Modern Movement architect Richard Seifert completed his iconic Centre Point office building at Tottenham Court Road. There were no takers for this space. It was empty for a decade.
The developer got it wrong. In an area where homeless people gather, it was inevitable that it was occupied for a time.
The homelessness charity Centrepoint, named as a reverse tribute to the empty hulk, was set up in a church nearby to tackle street homeless young people.
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