A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Ukraine is US Trojan horse ‘gift’ to Russia
JOHN FOSTER looks at the machinations central to the US Project for a New American Century for clues about what the future might hold for Ukraine and beyond
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
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
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
On July 31 the lead editorial of the Financial Times called for a systematic strengthening of Nato ahead of its summit in Cardiff this September.
The alliance’s Article 5, its collective defence guarantee, needed to be given backbone and the alliance’s headquarters shifted to one of the “eastern countries” to give credibility to the alliance’s determination to intervene, if necessary, on Russia’s borders. The alliance’s Rapid Reaction Force should be systematically strengthened.
The FT is not usually a bellicose rabble-rouser. It is the paper that reflects the strategic thinking of the Anglo-US financial elite.
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