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Ian Sinclair
ILLEGAL FROM THE START: British commandos in the south east region of Afghanistan, May 2002
Features / 20 June 2025
British death squads in Afghanistan: ‘They handcuffed a young boy and shot him’
20 June 2025

As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion 
 

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Music / 16 June 2025
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: June 16, 2025
16 June 2025

Reviews of More, Remembering Now, and New Vienna

subversive voice
Books / 12 June 2025
Protest songs are our songs
12 June 2025

IAN SINCLAIR wades through a useful but academic study of the protest song

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Albums / 2 June 2025
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: June 2, 2025
2 June 2025

New releases from Kassi Valazza, Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, and Friendship

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Album reviews / 19 May 2025
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: May 19, 2025
19 May 2025

New releases from Robert Forster, Self Esteem, and Arve Henriksen

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Album reviews / 5 May 2025
Neil Young, Ezra Furman and Branford Marsalis Quartet
5 May 2025

New releases reviewed by IAN SINCLAIR

Features / 16 April 2025
The myth of the Western-maintained international rules-based order
16 April 2025
Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR
The Palisades Fire that started in the City of Los Angeles,
Books / 1 April 2025
Brace yourselves for the deluge
1 April 2025
IAN SINCLAIR draws attention to the powerful role that literature plays in foreseeing the way humanity will deal with climate crisis
In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade
Features / 29 March 2025
How the media sows ignorance and confusion about the war in Ukraine
29 March 2025
Detailing the deluge of delusion and dishonesty pushed by the pro-war camp, IAN SINCLAIR identifies four key tactics corporate journalists use to confuse audiences and suppress opposition to the proxy war in the east
Album reviews / 24 March 2025
Albums reviews with Ian Sinclair: March 24, 2025
24 March 2025
New releases from Black Country, New Road, Anouar Brahem, and Jaywalkers
The US-based MSG group wanted to build one of their light-po
Features / 9 January 2025
People power kills east London’s giant glowing bauble
9 January 2025
IAN SINCLAIR tells the story of a small group of east London activists who took on and defeated a billion-dollar US corporation that wanted to build a giant sphere venue coated in gaudy LED lights
FINGERS IN THE SYRIAN PIE: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer a
Features / 2 January 2025
Syria: how the British media keep the British people in ignorance
2 January 2025
The media’s shocking lack of interest in US-British involvement in Syria means it has effectively been a secret war, argues IAN SINCLAIR
Music / 12 December 2024
Album reviews by Ian Sinclair: December 13, 2024
12 December 2024
New releases from Ghais Guevara, Kim Deal and Hardwicke Circus
Bill Breeden talks to the press after the execution of Corey
Features / 9 December 2024
‘Cold-blooded, premeditated murder’
9 December 2024
Ian Sinclair talks to BILL BREEDEN, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister living in southern Indiana, and a longstanding opponent of the death penalty in the United States
ARCHITECTS OF SLAUGHTER : Jonathan Powell (right)and Alastai
Features / 23 November 2024
Media silence over Jonathan Powell’s bloody hands
23 November 2024
The British press has welcomed Keir Starmer’s new National Security Adviser without any mention of his deep, central involvement in the criminal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan — but history remembers, writes IAN SINCLAIR
ACTION: A Fossil Free London activist disrupts the 2023 Shel
Features / 9 November 2024
Protest and survive: responding to the climate crisis
9 November 2024
As a new report reveals how dire the climate situation is now, other recent research demonstrates how activism – namely Extinction Rebellion and the school strikes – has already forced governments into action, writes IAN SINCLAIR
FUELLING CONFLICT: Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte (right)
Features / 19 October 2024
Nato: a clear and present danger to world peace
19 October 2024
Ian Sinclair interviews MEDEA BENJAMIN and DAVID SWANSON about their new book on Nato, explaining how the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia established a template for military interventions, undermining international law and diplomacy
From left to right: Leslie Barson (Peace News Ltd director a
Features / 28 September 2024
Peace News: a huge, irrevocable loss for the British peace movement
28 September 2024
IAN SINCLAIR mourns the end of the longstanding activist newspaper that proudly stood ‘For Revolutionary Nonviolence’
PEACE RADICAL: James Lawson in 2013
Obituary / 3 September 2024
James Lawson: giant of the US civil rights struggle
3 September 2024
Strategist of non-violent action dies age 95
Just Stop Oil protesters take part in a walking protest bloc
Features / 24 August 2024
From climate shocks to climate action
24 August 2024
Social scientist DANA R FISHER speaks to Ian Sinclair about the efficacy of disruptive actions carried out by groups such as Just Stop Oil, the conditions that might generate a truly mass climate mobilisation, and what a win for Kamala Harris in the upcoming US presidential election would mean
AUTHORITARIAN: Crown Prince of Kuwait, Sheikh Mishal al-Ahma
Features / 19 July 2024
Promoting democracy? The reality of British foreign policy in Kuwait and the Gulf
19 July 2024
Why has our government been silent on the months-long shutdown of Kuwait’s parliament – and why do academics so often refrain from criticising countries in the region, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Mourners attend the funeral of Muhammad Sarhan,15, in the We
Features / 14 July 2024
Beyond armed peacekeeping: the power of unarmed civilian protection
14 July 2024
From Palestine to Cameroon, ELLEN FURNARI speaks to Ian Sinclair about how non-violent strategies and local relationships offer effective alternatives to military interventions in protecting civilians from conflict
SCARING THE ELITES: An anti-war march in Manchester city cen
Features / 29 June 2024
British foreign policy: the elite v the public
29 June 2024
Statistics show conclusively that the majority of Brits have repeatedly frightened the Establishment by consistently opposing military adventurism abroad, writes IAN SINCLAIR
roups including Friends of the Earth Scotland, Stop Climate
Features / 14 May 2024
The climate chasm at the heart of British politics
14 May 2024
Major cities underwater, a billion climate refugees — many scientists now expect societal collapse due to climate change. Yet from the political elite here in Britain, we have nothing even approaching acknowledgement, writes IAN SINCLAIR
The seal of the Central Intelligence Agency at its headquart
Features / 6 May 2024
‘A thick web of CIA operations and dirty tricks’
6 May 2024
Ian Sinclair speaks to SUSAN WILLIAMS about Britain and the US’s dark machinations against African leaders and nations they decided were at odds with their geopolitical interests in the 20th century — and the ongoing cover-up attempts
DISSUADED: Disengaged members of the public watch Extinction
Books / 29 April 2024
Little time left
29 April 2024
IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change
LINKING THE MOVEMENTS: NHS staff show their support for prot
Features / 2 April 2024
'There is no future in which we do not transform this civilisation'
2 April 2024
Speaking to RUPERT READ, Ian Sinclair discusses the urgency of climate action, the demise of the 1.5°C target, and the pivotal role of trade unions in building a majority against climate change
GAZA ON MY MIND: School and university students take part in
Features / 24 February 2024
The dangers in turning a blind eye to mass protests like those over Gaza
24 February 2024
When a government seems impossible to influence over an issue as life-or-death as war, it can lead those people left unheard to creative non-violent direct action — or to deadly brutality, warns IAN SINCLAIR
PEACE IS NOT AN OPTION: Prime minister Boris Johnson in Kyiv
Features / 14 February 2024
How the media downplays Nato’s growth as a cause of the Ukraine war
14 February 2024
A new report analyses how Western messaging during and after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine portrayed Russia’s motivations as pure, unprovoked expansionism — all in aid of prolonging the violence, explains IAN SINCLAIR
Music / 29 January 2024
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: January 29, 2024
29 January 2024
New releases from: Pharoah Sanders, Bill Ryder-Jones and Violent Femmes
Al Jazeera recently reported it had received a letter from e
Features / 7 December 2023
The British media’s complicity in Israel’s slaughter in Gaza
7 December 2023
Just like with the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria, the British public cannot trust the media to provide accurate, critical or historically contextual coverage of the war on Gaza, asserts IAN SINCLAIR
HISTORY OF SUCCESS: Non-violent campaigns won against aparth
Features / 24 November 2023
Combatting the zombie myths about non-violent struggle
24 November 2023
The rush to understand and explain the context of the events of October 7 has revealed a growing ignorance about the effectiveness and logic of unarmed methods — IAN SINCLAIR responds
Features / 11 November 2023
Self-defence and the right to resist in Palestine
11 November 2023
Ian Sinclair speaks to legal expert MARJORIE COHN about what international law says in regard to Israel’s right to self-defence, and Israeli actions against Palestinians more generally
Features / 6 November 2023
The British state’s nuclear terrorism
6 November 2023
In the second of two interviews on atomic conflict, Ian Sinclair speaks to peace activist MILAN RAI about the popular framing of Britain’s nuclear weapons being for ‘deterrence,’ and to explain his claim that Britain has carried out ‘nuclear terrorism’
The Mark 39 Nuclear Bomb carried by US B-52 bombers until 19
Features / 6 November 2023
Reinforcing the imperium: Joseph Gerson on the US nuclear arsenal
6 November 2023
In the first of two interviews on peace and conflict, Ian Sinclair speaks to JOSEPH GERSON about his seminal 2007 book Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World
CHANGING TIMES: Tony Whitehead (centre) and his partner John
Features / 15 October 2023
Never forget: grassroots activism is a crucial driver in securing positive change
15 October 2023
It is not in the interests of the Establishment to recognise the impact protest movements have had on everything from gay rights to ecology, but the evidence shows their role is essential, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Culture / 20 September 2023
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: September 20, 2023
20 September 2023
New releases from The Mary Wallopers, Wilco, and Setting
Members of Fossil Free London protest the Shell AGM at Londo
Features / 4 September 2023
A guide to Britain’s new grassroots climate groups
4 September 2023
IAN SINCLAIR gives the lowdown on a swathe of new environmental action campaigns that have sprung up in recent years
People take part in a protest against the proposed ultra-low
Features / 20 August 2023
The Ulez and the fight for clean air
20 August 2023
Ian Sinclair spoke to respiratory specialist DR LAURA-JANE SMITH about how the impact of air pollution on our health is badly underestimated and the kind of legislation needed across Britain to fight it
Culture / 14 August 2023
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: August 15, 2023
14 August 2023
Reviews of Ani DiFranco, The Clientele and Emma Rawicz
Features / 6 July 2023
Loaded question: opinion polls and Britain at war
6 July 2023
Ian Sinclair speaks to LILLAH FEARNLEY about her research on the power of opinion polls on government decisions such as military intervention against Syria — and how the powerful shape this critical research
Music / 3 July 2023
Album reviews with IAN SINCLAIR: July 3, 2023
3 July 2023
New releases from Bonny Doon, Speech Debelle and Jacob Young
US soldiers of the North Carolina Army National Guard in ea
Features / 16 May 2023
The US occupation of Syria that ‘never happened’
16 May 2023
With billions of dollars’ worth of weapons sent and thousands of US soldiers stationed, how was the myth of US non-intervention in Syria created, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Features / 26 April 2023
More power than we know: public opinion and government pandemic policy
26 April 2023
IAN SINCLAIR demonstrates how we may have more power over the current Tory regime than we realise — an opportunity to force positive political change we should grab with both hands
Music / 10 April 2023
Album reviews with Ian Sinclair: April 10, 2023
10 April 2023
Reviews of Niaill Summerton, Boygenius, and Molina, Talbot, Lofgren and Young
An XR activist is carried away from a blockade in the City o
Features / 7 April 2023
James Ozden: research for the revolution
7 April 2023
The founder of Social Change Lab spoke to Ian Sinclair about how their work informs, and is informed by, the strategy of the burgeoning climate movement that has grown around Extinction Rebellion
The latest donor information on the websites of Chatham Hous
Features / 28 March 2023
Why British foreign policy think tanks defend the status quo
28 March 2023
By investigating the funding of 45 of the world’s top think tanks and interviewing their staff, new research has shown serious conflicts of interest leading to endemic self-censorship in foreign policy analysis, reports IAN SINCLAIR
Iraqi men are frisked at gunpoint by soldiers of the 1st Bat
Features / 8 March 2023
Why do the US and Britain still claim the invasion of Iraq was to spread democracy?
8 March 2023
The hostility towards elections and democracy by the US-British military administration that brutally overran the nation in 2003 was well documented at the time — as was the mass movement for free elections, writes IAN SINCLAIR