Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
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In more misogynistic times it was said ‘give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he’ll eat for life’ — PETER FROST proposes a new version: teach a family to fish and they will eat well. At least until pollution, plastic debris, global warming, floods, droughts and overfishing end it all
Salvelinus alpinus, better known as the Arctic char
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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
Karl and Eleanor Marx – father and daughter – share the credit for a pamphlet which was widely read as an introduction or alternative to his longer Capital and is still relevant today, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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
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
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
LET’S start with some good news. I have written many times about the demise of our native white-clawed chalk stream crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes). These had been forced out of their habitat by American Red Signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus). These invaders had escaped from commercial crayfish farms.
Worse, these unwelcome US critters also carried a fatal crayfish pox that killed our natives but to which they were immune.
Recent surveys and river counts however, have shown that populations of native white-claws are doing much better, whereas the numbers of non-native crayfish are falling fast.
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