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
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While millions suffer in poverty and ill-health, the super-rich are getting even richer. It’s only through organising and collective action that we can seek to redress the balance, says ROGER McKENZIE
A woman carries her child after receiving a food donation from a non-governmental organization that works to fight hunger, in the Jardim Gramacho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2021
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
IT IS that time of year when thoughts turn to resolutions for the next year. People resolve to get fitter or to change their diets or just to become a better person in some way.
For the vast majority of people across the world it is more a question of survival. Health rather than fitness. Being able to put food of any sort on the table rather than a dietary fashion change.
Afghanistan is a case in point. The misadventures of the US coalition has left 23 million Afghans — that is more than half the population — without enough food.
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