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The second Donald Trump presidency will differ crucially from the first because, from his first day in the White House, he must cope with...
Alex, a waitress in a restaurant on a zero-hours contract, says that the worst aspect of her job is that “you cannot control your life, and you...
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At first glance, the international winners and losers following the overthrow of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad are obvious enough. The US,...
Syrian rebels are attacking towards the city of Homs in central Syria, the fall of which will open the road to Damascus and the overthrow of...
Syrian rebels have captured most of Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, after launching a surprise offensive in which they have so far faced...
We are witnessing a new carve-up of the Arab world more radical than anything that has happened since the UK and France as imperial powers...
The ceasefire in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah may be shaky, but it is nevertheless an important stage in the radical reshaping of the...
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The decision by President Joe Biden to permit Ukraine to use US-supplied missiles to strike inside Russia is another shift in the escalatory spiral...
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Most political disasters are overstated, but not the re-election of Donald Trump as US president. American voters have chosen a racist...
Joe Biden won the presidential election in 2020 promising to stabilise America, restore traditional alliances abroad and make the world a safer...
The two laws passed by the Israeli Knesset on Monday, which ban the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) – the main UN agency aiding...
A year ago, an attack by 100 Israeli combat aircraft and unmanned drones on 20 sites in Iran, as well as on Syria and Iraq, would have created...
Two months after Claud Cockburn, my father, fled Berlin hours before Hitler became German chancellor on 30 January 1933, he founded and largely...
Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader killed by Israeli forces aged 61, spent his entire life confined to the Gaza Strip or in an Israeli prison. Yet his...
The killing by Israeli troops in Gaza of the Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar will be greeted by Israelis as a sign that they are well on their way to a...
“I grew up in the shadow of the dark satanic mills, at a time when they made textiles, and now I live in the shadow of dark satanic apartment...
The decision by President Joe Biden to send an advanced missile defence system, operated by some 100 US soldiers, to Israel is a significant step...