A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
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It’s where you place the blame – politics beyond Brexit
The worst thing about the Brexit debacle is that it has blinded Parliament to bigger issues like the climate catastrophe, says ALAN SIMPSON
Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
BREXIT is a constitutional crisis. Climate is an existential one. It’s important to get that clear before diving into my childhood affection for Peanuts cartoons.
One of my all-time favourites involved Charlie Brown (the doggedly persistent but incompetent organiser of an ever failing kids’ baseball team) coming off the park after another trashing defeat.
Lucy (his “maybe” childhood sweetheart) wrapped a comforting arm round his shoulder: “Never mind, Charlie Brown,” she consoled. “Just remember this. It doesn’t matter whether you win or whether you lose … It’s where you place the blame.”
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