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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'I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair being killed every day'
Odious racist and xenophobic attitudes surface in Ukraine conflict. ROGER McKENZIE reports
AGGRAVATED UNCERTAINTY: African residents in Ukraine wait at the platform inside Lviv (western Ukraine) railway station seeking refuge in neighbouring countries
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
ALTHOUGH the Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign has been around since 2013 many only started crying about what was happening to black people after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.
Many of these new converts to black liberation suddenly tripped over themselves saying just how much our lives had always mattered to them. Not that there was often much evidence of it but better late to the party than not to come at all.
Black activists were in demand for advice on what these folks could do to help and for the best books to read so they could get better educated about the struggle.
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