Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
Assange and the assault on press freedom
While the Wikileaks whistleblower continues his fight to avoid extradition, proposed reforms to the Official Secrets Act should be of concern to all who value a free media, warns TIM DAWSON
Julian Assange
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
AS SHE entered the Royal Courts of Justice on Wednesday morning, Julian Assange’s fiancee Stella Moris paused to address protesters.
Beaming smiles, she told the crowd that the previous day she had been allowed to embrace Assange for the first time in 17 months.
“Throughout my time in Belmarsh, I held his warm hand. Julian has been denied the love and affection of his family… [he] and the kids will never get this time back.”
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