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
The turning point
From flash floods to heatwaves and drought, Britain is woefully unprepared for the climate impacts ahead — but growing civil society resistance could force the state's hand, writes ALAN SIMPSON
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
SOMETHING big is happening; really big. All the pillars of smug certainty are beginning to crumble. Nothing captured this more than the “waste” sculpture taunting the G7 Summit in Cornwall.
The Mount Recyclemore sculpture — made from dumped e-waste materials — symbolised far more than the 53 million tonnes of electronic goods the world throws away each year.
It was a reminder that, faced with our greatest ever existential challenge, the world is saddled with rubbish leadership.
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