1.2 million people have been forced from their homes and have become refugees. Each one is an individual human being, and they…
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Today is the grand opening of the Salisbury Festival of Russophobia, otherwise known as the Public Inquiry into the death of Dawn…
Western governments are deeply involved, strongly against the will of the majority of their population, in committing a colonial genocide of indigenous…
Netanyahu is desperate to keep war simmering along and to draw the USA closer and closer to him. At the same time…
Keir Starmer has left about 70% of the landscape of historic western political and economic thought vacant to his left. It is…
No major western leader is ever again going to be able to speak about human rights or ethical values, without attracting howls…
The detention of Pavel Durov is being portrayed as a result of the EU Digital Services Act. But having spent my day…
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