The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture
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The United States has an infamous history of forcibly separating children from parents
MARK MAXEY is reminded by current US immigration policy of previous government attempts to destroy the cultural identity of Native Americans
DEHUMANISING: Pupils standing at the entrance of the Chemawa Indian Training School in Salem, Oregon
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While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services
The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
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
“Shit, my sister and cousin cried for days because of that. They were traumatised,” Leonard Peltier recalled, speaking of how he, his sister Betty Ann and cousin Pauline Peltier were forcefully removed from his grandmother by the government and sent to boarding schools as children.
“Pauline was so traumatised she has never fully recovered,” the Native American political prisoner said in an interview with People’s World. “You know, brother, I didn’t come to prison to become a political prisoner,” Peltier pointed out, “I’ve been part of the resistance since I was nine years of age.”
The recent tragedy created at the southern border by President Donald Trump, in which immigrant children have been cruelly torn away from their families and held essentially as political hostages, has many in the US saying: “This is not what America is about. This isn’t what our country does. These are not our values.”
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