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Will the Xi-Biden talks stop Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan?

SO, NANCY Pelosi, the Speaker of US House of Representatives, has embarked upon her much-touted tour of Southeast Asia. Pelosi, number three in the line of US presidential succession, is

How private corps stole sea from commons

Overfishing, seabed mining, corporate greed: let is take back control of our marine environment for the common good, writes Guy Standing FOR most of human history, the oceans have been seen

West continues to pillage other countries’ bank accounts

WITH the explanation that it had to punish Russia for its war in Ukraine, the west stole over $300 billion of Moscow’s money. With the explanation that 9/11 families deserved

The dawn of the apocalypse

We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction, writes Chris Hedges

Still about money and power

The gallery has now become a place for play, chat, sometimes for laughter and above all for self-display and posting on social media platforms. The development has deep cultural consequences

21st -century order

AT LAST we were able to read, last week, a New York Times story that concerned the Russians but not the brutal Russians. However, if we are not reading about

Resisting the food transition

THE ‘food transition’ is integral to the ‘great reset’. This transition is couched in the language of climate emergency and sustainability and warnings about the imminent need to address the

Cost of a missed opportunity

Biden’s trip to the Middle East demonstrated the weakness of US influence in the region, the increased difficulty of any resumption of the Iran nuclear accord and the enhanced role

Singing in the shadow of Belmarsh

I HAVE been in England since late June, taking part in a variety of events, including a commemoration of Julian Assange’s 51st birthday, in front of Belmarsh Prison in London,

BBC pays damages to royal nanny over Diana interview

Princes William and Harry’s former nanny on Thursday received substantial damages from the BBC over ‘false and malicious’ claims about her used to obtain a 1995 interview with Princess Diana.