SOLOMON HUGHES examines the shift in Labour rhetoric on racism and Reform UK – and what’s driving it
US prioritising a new cold war over stopping climate catastrophe
It is a shameful waste for Washington to be spending colossal funds on militarism at a time when it should be drastically scaling up its own climate targets and action, says FIONA EDWARDS
US aggression against China is not only a threat to world peace and prosperity, it is also a major obstacle in the way of humanity coming together to tackle climate change
A new report says the government’s purchase of US nuclear-armed aircraft prioritises transatlantic politics over military needs and ignored its own Strategic Defence Review, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD reminds us that the resilience of ordinary folk can turn the tables on the mighty and 'entitled'
JACK DAVIDSON explains the motivation behind the UCU strike action at the University of Sheffield
DYLAN MURPHY focuses on the big tech oligarchs’ war against workers and how AI and robotics could destroy 100 million US jobs by 2035
Davie and Turness are two scalps for Trump, Farage and Johnson, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
THE US’s cold war propaganda offensive into the Cop26 has centred on attempting to position itself as the world’s “climate leader” and to shift the blame for the climate crisis onto developing countries, particularly China and India.
This is so obviously false and against the interests of humanity that Washington has failed to set the political agenda internationally.
Youth climate leader Greta Thunberg brilliantly cut through this fake narrative, which has been built up relentlessly by the mainstream Western media in recent months, with just three words, “Blah, blah, blah.”
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