The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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Facts don’t care about Trump’s feelings
JOHN WIGHT breaks down the President’s breakdown in scrupulous detail, explaining what China and the WHO actually said — and what the US failed to do
President Donald Trump has sought to blame China for the Covid-19 pandemic to distract from his own government's disastrous response
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
IN THE midst of a global pandemic Donald Trump has gone berserk.
While attacking China and the WHO abroad — more or less claiming that the latter is an agent of the former, with the former a dagger pointed at the heart of the world — he lashes out with increasing venom at the media at home for daring to ask uncomfortable questions.
His customary jeremiads and verbal broadsides against them are a now daily occurrence as he dissembles and deflects like a man whose meltdown is near complete.
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