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Signs point to world war: what next?
The rising price of gold is a good indicator that, despite the protestations of Western leaders, we are heading towards a bigger, wider war. Closing our eyes and focusing on domestic issues is not an option, warns ANDREW MURRAY

HAS the third world war already started? The leaders of the imperialist powers are frenziedly denying it, while apparently already waging war on several fronts.
Even as they bomb Yemen, shield Israel from the consequences of its aggressions and struggle to keep the war in Ukraine bubbling along, their main slogan is “no escalation,” like robbers shouting “Stop thief.”
Just as the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1932 and the Spanish civil war from 1936 marked the real onset of the second world war, conventionally dated only from September 1939, history may record that the third great conflagration is already underway.
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