Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Latest editorial
Sudan – the forgotten war
Amid mass-scale suffering in the ongoing civil war, French arms companies are making huge profits from military technology used in the conflict, in violation of a UN embargo – and no doubt others are complicit too, warns ROGER McKENZIE
A Sudanese refugee camp in Chad, May 2023
[Henry Wilkins/VOA/CC]
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
THERE is not and should never be a competition or comparison over which is the most important war taking place in the world.
But we should recognise that decisions are made all the time by the corporate media about which wars they are concerned enough about to give any air time or column inches to.
There can be little doubt that the civil war that has been raging in Sudan for the best (worst) part of two years is barely in the radar of these corporate media types. It simply does not get the coverage of the tragic wars in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria or Ukraine.
Similar stories
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
IMAN HAMAD of the Sudanese Women’s Union reports from a nation torn apart by civil war — one where both factions are now committing horrific crimes against women and girls in the conflict zones
