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
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John Bolton’s appointment is bad news for the Iranian people
JANE GREEN assesses the implications of the return of the rightwinger for Iran, its protesting workers, the nuclear deal and the wider Middle East
US national security advisor John Bolton
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
Karl and Eleanor Marx – father and daughter – share the credit for a pamphlet which was widely read as an introduction or alternative to his longer Capital and is still relevant today, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
With US sanctions, military pressure and electoral interference looming, the struggle over Colombia’s sovereignty — and the fate of its fragile peace process — has reached a critical moment, says NICK MacWILLIAM
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
DURING the administration of George W Bush, the under secretary of state for arms control, one John Bolton, was an enthusiastic supporter of the invasion of Iraq.
In spite of the catastrophe which followed in human, political and military terms, Bolton remains an enthusiastic interventionist.
With recent titles such as To Stop Iran’s Bomb, Bomb Iran under his belt, it does not take a great deal of digging to find that Bolton’s position has not fundamentally changed in the intervening 15 years.
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