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The wonky Ajax and jobs for the boys
SOLOMON HUGHES reports on the revolving door from the British army to defence corporations like General Dynamics, whose latest £3.5bn vehicle is an unusable clunker
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ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
THE British army’s latest armoured vehicle is performing so badly that inspectors think a “successful delivery” is “unachievable.”
But the US firm behind the failing armoured vehicle did hire one of the army’s top generals. So not everyone is doing badly from the flawed £3.5 billion vehicle.
US defence giant General Dynamics is selling the Ajax armoured fighting vehicles to the British army.
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