The horror of Israel’s genocide exposes the illusion that the U.K. is a democracy. A mass movement is needed to address ten major issues, write Mark Curtis and Laura Pidcock.
Whose interests are served by predictions of a third general European war in little more than a century? The answer is clear: politicians who have led Europe into this nearly hopeless situation, says Uros Lipuscek.
As in Potsdam at the end of the Second World War, the only path forward now is working out the terms of Ukraine’s defeat. And there is still time to save lives, writes Stefan Moore.
Alfred W. McCoy on the role of energy over the past five centuries in fueling imperial supremacy and the current politics of American decline amid China’s green-energy ride to global power.
The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West.
Talk about a Russian ship “inside British waters” is the normal refuge of extremely unpopular governments. It is also part of the military industrial complex’s tightening grip on the state.