Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Western foreign policy and the dangerous ignorance gap
The enormous distance between the reality of Western foreign policy and the Western public’s understanding of what their governments do in their name is dangerous, writes IAN SINCLAIR
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
WHILE the mainstream media’s self-serving obsession with so-called fake news and Russian interference in elections looks set to continue for a long time, a far more serious problem with Western journalism is conveniently ignored.
This could be called the dangerous ignorance gap of Western foreign policy, the often huge gulf between the reality of what the US and Britain do in the Middle East — painfully understood by the populations on the receiving end of Western interference — and the woeful level of awareness the US and British general public and commentariat have about these interventions.
The aggressive and illegal 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq is a key site in understanding this divergence.
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