RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
The voters’ dilemma
Americans are being asked to choose between two unappealing candidates as their next president, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a Get Out The Vote rally at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C., February 10, 2024
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
With US sanctions, military pressure and electoral interference looming, the struggle over Colombia’s sovereignty — and the fate of its fragile peace process — has reached a critical moment, says NICK MacWILLIAM
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
LAST Thursday, the campaign to re-elect incumbent US president Joe Biden received a devastating slash across the Achilles’ heel. President Joe Biden, a special counsel report said, would not be criminally prosecuted for “willfully retaining” and improperly sharing classified materials from the Obama era at his home.
The reason? The case would not be winnable because Biden would come across to a jury “as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” the report concluded.
Even before Biden’s backing of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza eroded his support on the left, his greatest vulnerability was always the perception that, at 81, he was simply too old — and possibly too forgetful — to serve a second term as US president. It’s a theme that has already been pounced on by Biden’s lead Republican opponent for the presidency, Donald Trump.
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Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
Once able to defy a US president before Congress, Netanyahu now finds himself weakened by military setbacks and facing a populist Trump who may yet put ‘America first’ instead of Israel, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Musk’s ‘Doge’ is already dismantling institutions and destroying lives with shocking rapidity, while legal challenges and protest movements finally begin to mount against the chaos and cruelty, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The words of compassion by Bishop Budde were ‘a lesson in moral leadership and courage that our government would do well to listen to,’ says Jeremy Corbyn. LINDA PENTZ GUNTER has more on the sermon heard around the world