The proxy war in Ukraine is heading to a denouement with the US and Russia dividing the spoils while the European powers stand bewildered by events they have been wilfully blind to, says KEVIN OVENDEN
A coalition of failure and betrayal
The SNP is descending into civil war, but not before dragging their partners the Scottish Greens down to their political level of treachery and neglect, shunning the basic principles of their platform, writes MATT KERR
One can only imagine what would happen if 2.2 million Palestinian refugees were pushed into Jordan, Egypt and other Arab countries, per Trump’s proposal, writes RAMZY BAROUD
This is the most anti-migrant government in decades, argues RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH
VICTOR GROSSMAN reports, with a little chuckle, on how US readiness to work with Russia, not just on peace for Ukraine, has thrown a spanner into the German electoral machine
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
Freedom now for former PM Mir-Hossein Mousavi and other political prisoners
VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
COALITIONS have never been my cup of tea. Well, not the kind between political parties at least.
I had read about the coalition during the war to defeat Hitler, and that didn’t seem so terrible an idea, even if we may struggle to accept some of its excesses — not least banning this paper’s predecessor for a time.
Parliamentary parties had to come together then to defeat a common enemy, but what exactly is the common enemy that drives these relationships in peacetime?
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