Transparency records reveal senior trade officials held dinners and strategy meetings with the notorious lobbying firm even as controversy over its Epstein links deepened, says SOLOMON HUGHES
DONALD TRUMP is very upset with the Palestinian leadership, accusing it of ingratitude.
The US president can’t believe, just because he declared Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and pledged to transfer the US embassy there, that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told him to forget any Washington-led peace negotiations.
Either Trump is unaware of the city’s unique importance to Palestinian Muslims and Christians, as well as to Jews, or he believes he has a god-like power to make declarations binding on the whole of humanity.
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
While Trump praises the ‘successful’ attack on Iranian nuclear sites, the question arises as to the real motives behind this escalation. MARC VANDEPITTE explores the issues
We are being dragged into not just a war, but a potentially nuclear war



