The US-Israeli strikes against Iran are part of a decades-long war against the Islamic Republic which has refused to bow to US demands that it surrender its sovereignty, argues VIJAY PRASHAD
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Western foreign policy and the dangerous ignorance gap
The enormous distance between the reality of Western foreign policy and the Western public’s understanding of what their governments do in their name is dangerous, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Scotland’s deepening crises expose the human cost of political complacency — and the toll it is taking on working-class communities, says NEIL FINDLAY
History shows from Iraq to Libya, and now Iran, that regime-change fantasies rarely deliver stability — but they always deliver human and economic cost, says MARYAM ESLAMDOUST
Hundreds protested against the US-Israel attacks on Iran in Parliament Square on Saturday, fearing a wider conflagration and horrified by the targeting of young schoolchildren, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
More than a century-and-a-half after its first publication, the message of the first Communist Manifesto continues to resonate throughout the world, says the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
LUKE FLETCHER outlines Plaid Cymru bold plans for wide-ranging policy consultations with trade unions in Wales
WHILE the mainstream media’s self-serving obsession with so-called fake news and Russian interference in elections looks set to continue for a long time, a far more serious problem with Western journalism is conveniently ignored.
This could be called the dangerous ignorance gap of Western foreign policy, the often huge gulf between the reality of what the US and Britain do in the Middle East — painfully understood by the populations on the receiving end of Western interference — and the woeful level of awareness the US and British general public and commentariat have about these interventions.
The aggressive and illegal 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq is a key site in understanding this divergence.
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