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
Western military intervention attempts to stop Haiti’s cycle of protests
But rather than deal with the actual causes of the crisis, the United States and Canada are eager to treat it as a law-and-order problem, says VIJAY PRASHAD
Protesters walk past a burning barricade during a protest against the government's request for an international military force, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022.
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
ON OCTOBER 15 2022, aircraft of the United States and Canada air forces delivered military equipment to the Haitian National Police (HNP), which the government of Haiti had previously purchased.
This equipment, rushed to Port-au-Prince — Haiti’s capital — came, according to the United States, to “assist the HNP in their fight against criminal actors who are fomenting violence and disrupting the flow of critically needed humanitarian assistance hindering efforts to halt the spread of cholera.”
Meanwhile, the United States has circulated a draft resolution to the members of the United Nations security council seeking to establish an UN-enforced sanctions regime against Haiti.
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