Latest editorial
Supporters for both ruling and opposition parties demonstrate at the legislative chamber building in Taipei, Taiwan, May 28, 2024
TAIWAN: Taipei’s opposition-controlled legislature passed changes today that are seen as diminishing the power of the island’s president.
The changes pushed by the opposition Nationalist Party and its allies give the body greater power to control budgets, including military spending that the party has blocked in what some observers see as a concession to China.
BELGIUM: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today picked up a second $1 billion (£783 million) promise of military aid in as many days for his war with Russia during a whirlwind tour through the European Union.
![SHAMELESS DISPLAY OF COERCION: Previously unreleased photos of Guantanamo captives, 2002, brought to Guantanamo Bay from Afghanistan by way of Incirlik, Turkey. [Pic: Staff Sergeant Jeremy Lock/CC]](https://msd11.gn.apc.org/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2025-11/cia%20web2.jpg.webp?itok=o_Dyxu_T)
GUILLERMO THOMAS enjoys a survey of the current state of the CIA (aka Langley) from an expert and insider of sorts
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
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
