The question is not simply how much we spend on defence, but what we understand defence and security to mean, says SIMON BRIGNELL
SINCE 1976 the award-winning US media watchdog Project Censored has printed an annual list of the most under-reported news stories in the US media – the “news that didn’t make the news.”
Should someone start publishing a similar book about the UK media, the top under-reported story of 2022 will almost certainly be the news the British government worked to prevent a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine war in March-April 2022.
Here’s what we know.
Andy Burnham offers unconditional support for Zelensky but no solutions to the underlying conflict between the Nato/EU bloc and Russia, says NICK WRIGHT
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES



