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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
IT’S a good thing that Stephen K Bannon, the extreme right provocateur and former Trump White House strategist, has been deposed from his post as chairman of the alt-right (read neonazi and extreme right) Breitbart News.
Bannon was forced to step down after pressure from the Trump administration and the website’s main financial backer, hedge fund billionaire Rebekah Mercer.
The former CEO of Trump’s presidential campaign, Bannon ran afoul of his commander-in-chief after remarkably accusing Donald Trump Jnr, Paul Manafort and others of treason resulting from the infamous Trump Tower meeting with Russians purporting to have dirt incriminating Hillary Clinton.
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