We might finally understand that a system designed to pacify us while a few grow rich at the expense of our children’s future and our own does not have to continue. That we can raise our voices and loudly say: “No!”

Exactly like its predecessors

Israel was always on course to annexation

The US seeks to engineer a suitable regional environment before it begins implementing the ‘deal of the century’

In the combined success-failure of the Mueller inquiry, the left has an opportunity to understand in a much more sophisticated way how real power works and in whose favor it is exercised

Netanyahu was forced to dissolve the 120-member parliament to block his chief rival, Benny Gantz, from getting a chance to assemble an alternative governing coalition

A far from complete list of some of the most glaring anomalies in Assange’s legal troubles

The media are not a watchdog on power but the public relations arm of giant corporations pursuing their narrow interests in the Middle East

The question is increasingly not whether, but what kind of, annexation Netanyahu plans

Assange was reduced from one of the few towering figures of our time – a man who will have a central place in history books, if we as a species live long enough to write those books – to nothing more than a sex pest, and a scruffy bail-skipper.