RAINER RUPP examines former CIA analyst Larry Johnson’s description of the US operation to kidnap Nicolas Maduro as a tactically successful but strategically disastrous move, with shades of Bush’s disastrous intervention in Iraq
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What was behind Starmer’s ‘tough-cop’ clampdown on Saturday’s Palestine protest?
ANDREW MURRAY considers whether the mass arrest of peaceful protesters was an attempt by the PM to appease his right-wing critics following his crackdown on last August’s race rioters — and a dark omen of the tyrannies to come
HEAVY HANDED: (Above) Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell (first from left) and Khalid Abdalla (third from right in the back) at the national march for Palestine on Whitehall in central London last Saturday
STEPHEN LOW looks at the SNP plans for public services
After 15 years of spending cuts and regressive redistribution, the British economy is weaker, investment is still anaemic and living standards are stalled – yet all major parties remain committed to a policy that has repeatedly failed to deliver recovery, says MICHAEL BURKE
The attack on January 3 is part of the US war that began in 2001 and will continue long after the engines of the Chinook helicopters cool down, say TAROA ZUNIGA SILVA and VIJAY PRASHAD
Trump’s Venezuela “coup” along with his fake peace deals, including the latest in the Congo, are motivated by personal gain and self-aggrandisement, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
SALLY LEWIS asks why Maduro’s legitimacy in Venezuela is contested, while Keir Starmer’s is not despite his mandate resting on a far smaller share of the vote
SATURDAY must have been a good day to be a criminal on the streets of London.
Because a very sizeable chunk of the police was focused on their main mission — upholding the social order, in this case by criminalising protest against a British-supported genocide.
Supported by the British state that is, not by the people. Telling that truth outside the headquarters of the state broadcaster is now a truth that can’t be handled.
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