With its track record of leveraging cultural power for US gain and barely concealed promotion of coup attempts, the US Agency for International Development will not be mourned among the US’s southern neighbours, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER D HARRIS
Israel’s war aims are not ours
Labour must recognise Israel’s true aims of total colonisation of Palestine and massive regional expansion — and therefore end the arms sales and trade deals that enable the destruction of any two-state solution, writes HUGH LANNING
KEITH FLETT looks back 50 years to when the Iron Lady was elected Tory leader…
Social security is lagging further and further behind inflation and our government quite simply does not care, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH agues that much as social media are presently guilty of fanning hostilities, the roots of it lie with decades of xenophobic narratives peddled by politicians and the traditional media
ESTHER, from Nordic Model Now! explains how decriminalisation of prostitution, rendering it just another form of ‘work’, would undermine the Equality Act 2010
As a partial successor to the post-war Marshall Plan, USAid is not simply a humanitarian aid programme, but is involved in projecting US power as an instrument of foreign policy, argues NICK WRIGHT
Locals have been let down by procrastination over the upgrade to Ardrossan Harbour, says KATY CLARK MSP
“AT times of war, the art of strategy is to align military means with political ends,” Lawrence Freedman once said. Yet Labour’s timid response to Israel’s year-long war on Palestine results from a failure or refusal to recognise that Israel’s strategy — its military means — is based on what has become a very clear and transparent political end.
This is the destruction of any prospect of a two-state — or any other — solution by the elimination of any viable infrastructure that could be the basis of a Palestinian state.
If their objectives were ever “limited” to the destruction of Hamas’s military capabilities, Israel’s goals have become the realisation of their long-term nirvana — the creation of a “Greater Israel” covering all of historic Palestine from the river to the sea.
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