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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Tinkering round the edges is not enough
While an astonishing proportion of the world is impoverished, the already unimaginably wealthy keep getting richer. Bold and decisive action is needed, says ROGER McKENZIE
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
THE last few years have seen hard times for many people across the globe. The cost-of-living crisis is a worldwide phenomenon, but we should remember that for many across the globe the crisis is a permanent way of life.
This is not to diminish the hardship many are now experiencing. I just want to point out that more than being a temporary state of affairs, for large parts of the planet, hardship — or rather the most gut-wrenching forms of poverty imaginable — has been made even worse by the current crisis.
The latest figures from the World Bank say that 9.2 per cent of the planet, some 719 million people live in extreme poverty and survive on less than $2.15 a day.
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