By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN
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From Obama to Kamala, ‘diversity’ without progress is pointless
Having black capitalist politicians in leadership positions shows that capitalism is able to accommodate racial diversity, writes ROGER McKENZIE — but if the world still starves and burns, so what?
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns for President as the presumptive Democratic candidate during an event at West Allis Central High School, July 23, 2024, in West Allis, Wis.
As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE
A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied
As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT
Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports
DOES diversity matter? Most of the talk that surrounds the apparent imminent nomination of Kamala Harris to be the US Democratic Party presidential nominee appears to centre on a few narrow issues.
The first is that she is not “Genocide Joe” Biden. The second is that she is not what many regard as the racist, misogynist and now convicted felon, former president Donald Trump.
But also she is talked of as the first woman of colour standing on behalf of one of the main parties for what the US, in its usual over-the-top way, refers to as the most powerful position on Earth.
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