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As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and ...

Professor Liz David-Barrett dissects the Musk-Trump-Thiel triangle, Hungary’s Orbán and how state capture can be reversed. This is from Peter Geoghegan’s Democracy for Sale, an indispensable guide to ...

Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by AVI SHLAIM In this book Avi Shlaim places Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip under an uncompromising lens. He argues that recurrent attacks – ...

Paul Laverty’s post-release statement shows his legal training and deep humanity. He must have run rings around them in the police station. Not a hint of terrorism, violent intent or antisemitism on ...

As Aaron Bastani puts it: “This just sounds like contempt for Wales when you watch it. The truth is Wales could succeed in or outside the union – depending on the choices its politicians make.” We’ve ...

Yanis Varoufakis spoke to Declassified UK about why Keir Starmer’s plan to spend more on the military is not a sustainable way to grow Britain’s economy.

Responses to the seizure of the Freedom Flotilla (Sailing Against the Tide) which included twelve volunteers (including Greta Thunberg) were predictable. From around the strange brew that is Britain’s ...

Amplify Palestine releases Unboundable to mark twenty years since the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions went global; as Gaza’s people continue to endure genocidal siege, bombs, ...

John Swinney’s summit to ‘stop the far right’ had all of the energy of a burst balloon. Having been passed through the civil service it had lost any energy it might have once had. It was, no doubt, ...

This looks like a Marx Santa to me. Wishing all my readers and writers and commentors (?) a Merry Christmas, and hoping you have peaceful a time whatever you’re doing. I’m taking a few days off.