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A Week in Politics with Paddy McGuffin
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
THERE are some universal truisms which appear to pertain wherever you may happen to be in the world. Sadly.
Politicians lie through their teeth, the rich will always do their damnedest to stay that way at the expense of others and “police contact” often proves fatal if you’re a young black man.
Events in Ferguson, Missouri, in recent days after cops gunned down unarmed 18-year-old Michael Brown as he held his hands up in surrender have graphically borne this out.
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