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Defence Secretary James Mattis sits in front of Vice President Mike Pence, US President Donald Trump and national security adviser John Bolton
DONALD TRUMP’S inability to hold an idea in his head for longer than the average goldfish has left Theresa May doing her own fishy mouth-popping impressions, incapable of making a decision about Syria.
The “strong and stable” Prime Minister body-swerved our elected Parliament to push through a Cabinet decision to back military action after Trump’s infantile warning to Moscow to get ready for US missiles.
May, like every British prime minister since Winston Churchill, is so obsessed by the myth of a “special relationship” with Washington that she wanted to be sworn in as first deputy in the US sheriff’s posse.
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
While Trump praises the ‘successful’ attack on Iranian nuclear sites, the question arises as to the real motives behind this escalation. MARC VANDEPITTE explores the issues