CLAUDIA WEBBE speaks out against the lethal mechanics of Britain’s culture-war press
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Escalating the war: the West’s responsibility for the slaughter in Syria
Arming the Syrian rebel forces only exacerbated and prolonged the civil war, says IAN SINCLAIR
Powerful agribusiness interests are trying to overturn efforts by the Lula government to protect the environment and indigenous peoples of the Amazon region, writes GABRIELA SA PESSOA
Trade unions and community groups are mobilising to push back against Trump’s racist raids after new revelations of spying on legal protesters. MARK GRUENBERG reports from the US state of Minnesota
The best wildfire service may begin with the community, argues KOMAL RAJ ARYAL
The evolution of the Scottish nationalist leadership into cheerleaders for Nato has led the party to betray its pledges on Palestine and social spending, writes COLL McCAIL
While riding the No 3 bus in Glasgow MATT KERR has ample time to dissect the moribund Scottish Labour decline into near oblivion and watch intriguing bus passenger dynamics
DESPITE the carnage and intense anger created by the US-led wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan, many prominent commentators and politicians repeatedly pushed for the West to step up its intervention in Syria.
In 2012 Emile Hokayem, a senior fellow for Middle East security at the Institute for Strategic Studies, wrote an article titled “Arm Syrian rebels to enable [a] political solution.”
Three years later human rights activist Peter Tatchell was campaigning for what he called “Syrian democratic forces” to be given anti-aircraft missiles and Kurdish forces to be supplied with “heavy artillery, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles against Isis.”
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