Israel and the US talk as if they’ve won a victory, but the reality is that world opinion has turned decisively against the Israeli regime, says RAMZY BAROUD
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The betrayal of labour
Today’s US trade union movement bears the deep scars of the purges of hundreds of thousands of communists and militants, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Class warrior: Wyndham Mortimer in 1936
SOLOMON HUGHES finds one-time Cameron-centrist EU fans now promote vicious anti-migrant rhetoric in their bid to get attention for their ailing party
From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES
Modi has rolled out the carpet for the Taliban in New Delhi — and we shouldn’t be surprised. They have more in common than you might think, argues Bhabani Shankar Nayak
HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
“NOR can I understand how men who aspire to the leadership of labour are able to sacrifice labour’s interests in favour of the Democratic Party. I cannot understand men to whom a visit to the White House is more important than getting the workers out of the dog house” — Wyndham Mortimer.
At a time when ex-FBI chief James Comey’s self-serving, self-righteous book becomes a bestseller, in a season when ex-secretary of state Madeleine Albright, the enthusiastic apologist for genocide against Iraqi children, joins Comey on the bestseller list with a preposterous lecture on fascism, it may well be time to retreat to the library.
I found some solace and much enlightenment from a dusty, cobweb-infested paperback in a corner of a basement bookshelf.
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