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Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) looks on during a meeting with US President Joe Biden (second left) Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) and Foreign Secretary David Lammy (second right) in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington DC, September 13, 2024
“HE’S bluffing until he isn’t.”
Those were the scarcely reassuring words of the former British ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch, discussing the dangers of Russian President Putin’s possible response to British missiles being fired into Russian territory.
Yet doing just that is still the preference of the Keir Starmer government and the purpose of the Prime Minister’s visit to Washington to confer with President Joe Biden last week.
SEVIM DAGDELEN asks why the European Union is targeting the Swiss academic Jacques Baud, cutting off his access to banking services
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
Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless