The question is not simply how much we spend on defence, but what we understand defence and security to mean, says SIMON BRIGNELL
A year of neoliberal devastation under Milei in Argentina
BERT SCHOUWENBURG details how the libertarian, radical-right president’s shock doctrine has pushed millions into poverty while dismantling the state and aligning with US imperialism and Israeli slaughter
Argentina's President Javier Milei speaks before President-elect Donald Trump during an America First Policy Institute gala at his Mar-a-Lago estate, November 14, 2024, in Palm Beach, Fla.
Given the recent rejection of peace proposals by Israel the world must provide an immediate and resolute response to force accountability on Gaza, argues RAMZY BAROUD
MARK SEDDON tries to cool off in the countryside to avoid the heatwaves but the greed and incompetence of the privatised water industry is now at boiling point
The disputed election of a far-right president, who is also a US citizen, signals further consolidation of Washington’s regional power and represents a threat to the country’s democracy and sovereignty, writes WT WHITNEY JNR
by Her Excellency Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to the United Kingdom
DR STEPHEN WILKINSON assesses the life and legacy of a revolutionary giant
LIKE many of Buenos Aires’s inhabitants, Fabian, the concierge in my apartment block, is of Paraguayan descent.
On the morning of November 20 last year, I asked him what he thought of Javier Milei’s landslide victory that had seen him elected president the night before. “Argentinians,” he said, “Simply never learn.”
A year on, the most right-wing president in modern Argentine history has lived up to his promise to transform the country by effectively dismantling the state and replacing it with private enterprise.
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