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Naughties in Nottingham
CAL MCBRIDE recommends that you follow a coming-of-age trans story through harrowing lows to a point of optimistic triumph.
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Artificial intelligence, artificial support: Google buys new friends in Parliament
SOLOMON HUGHES reveals how six MPs enjoyed £400-£600 hospitality at Ditchley Park for Google’s ‘AI parliamentary scheme’ — supposedly to develop ‘effective scrutiny’ of artificial intelligence, but actually funded by the increasingly unsavoury tech giant itself.
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‘New phase of genocide’ in Gaza, warns Albanese as relentless killing continues
The Government Media Office of Hamas, which technically rules Gaza, said today 77 per cent of the Strip’s territory was now under direct Israeli occupation, and called on the UN to act to stop “continued genocide, ethnic cleansing, colonialism, aggression” and what it termed the “final solution” Israel is trying to impose on Gaza by force.
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Having sold out on every working-class promise, Starmer finally stoops to migrant-bashing
The most productive approach would be to stand up for what most Reform UK voters want and which they share with most people in our country—public ownership, higher taxes on the rich and an end to the privileges of the plutocracy.
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The myth of the Western-maintained international rules-based order
Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR.
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The scramble for Greenland
As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN.
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Socialism or barbarism–a statement of fact
Trump’s return when we already see a world at war, breathtaking inequality and climate catastrophe confirms Engles’ famous dichotomy, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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Where is the 21st-century protest song?
JOHN NEWSHAM draws attention to the uncompromising path of U.S. singer/songwriter CONOR OBERST.
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Around 242 million children missed school last year because of the climate emergency, says UN
UNICEF said the world’s schools and education systems were “largely ill equipped” to deal with the effects of extreme weather.
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‘I am a Gazan’: Writing on Eleanor Marx in times of genocide on her 170th birthday
The youngest daughter of Karl Marx and her unwavering humanity in the face of injustice remain relevant for our times, writes DANA MILLS.
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‘The rich are on course to destroy all our lives’
World’s wealthiest 1% have already burned through their share of the entire annual carbon limit, Oxfam warns.
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The case against ‘Western’ Marxism
RICHARD CLARKE applauds the assertion that Western Marxism represents a withdrawal from action to change the world into the academy.
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Israel ‘wiping Gazans out of existence’
Aid group accuses Tel Aviv of deliberate ethnic cleansing in latest damning report.
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Annexing the West Bank: Why Israel might pounce now
RAMZY BAROUD explains that with the world already unable or unwilling to confront Israel’s murderous devastation of Gaza, it is likely to seize the opportunity to annex the larger but equally vulnerable West Bank territory.
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A new Pan-Africanism for a new Century
Following the Eurocentric pathways to identity and development are a fallacy that is holding Africa back, ROGER McKENZIE argues.
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Climate activists serving combined 41 years of jail time granted mass appeal hearing
What’s at stake in this hearing is not just the freedom of some courageous individuals: it’s the credibility of the British legal system and the lifeblood of democracy itself.
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Siting U.S. nukes at Lakenheath puts us all in danger
The Morning Star sends its solidarity and support to those demonstrating tomorrow at Lakenheath, Suffolk, against the return of U.S. nuclear weapons to British soil.
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Extinction Rebellion tells insurance firms to cut ties with fossil fuels or face protests
EXTINCTION REBELLION (XR) issued an ultimatum to insurance bosses today as the climate group gears up for a week of protests across the country.
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Sixty years after Kubrick’s film, meet the U.S.’s real Dr. Strangelove
SOLOMON HUGHES looks at the sorry career of Brett McGurk.
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Declassified memo proves Ethel Rosenberg was not a Soviet spy
An NSA codebreaker’s 1950 assessment reveals Ethel Rosenberg knew of her husband’s espionage but ‘did not engage in the work herself’ — despite this, the US sent her to die in the electric chair, writes ANDREW TUCKER.