We Need to Stop Listening to Tony Blair Once and for All
Steven Methven
There’s never been a US lap he wouldn’t perch on.
Tag: middle east
When Has Western Intervention in the Middle East Ever Gone Well?
Steven Methven
Operation Epic Fail.
Why Israel Really Went to War With Iran
Aaron Bastani
Time for some radical honesty.
This Journalist Spent a Year Embedded With the Taliban
Ash Sarkar meets Ibrahim Nash'at
This journalist embedded himself with the Taliban.
I Have Lived Through Two Nakbas
Ghada Karmi
1948, 2023.
How the Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief Caved to Pro-Israel Pressure
Rivkah Brown
‘Kath takes the Board of Deputies very seriously.’
On Migration, the Polish Left Has All But Given Up
Dan Davison & Ewa Pospieszyńska
It isn't too late to grow a backbone.
The Public Supports Palestine. Why Don’t Our Politicians?
Ell Folan
It couldn’t be more clear-cut.
How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial
Aaron Bastani speaks to George Monbiot about COP26, which countries are climate change leaders and how the mainstream media enabled a culture of climate denial when it mattered most.
Operation Legacy: How the British Elite Re-Wrote World History
Conservatives are obsessed with the idea that the left wants to erase Britain’s history. Yet that’s precisely what happened when its empire collapsed after 1945, as re-writing the past became a matter of state policy executed on an industrial scale. Here Aaron Bastani explains what was called ‘Operation Legacy’ and how those who care about […]
Western Elites Aren’t Mourning the Loss of Afghan Life, but of Their Own Power
David Wearing
Cry me a river.
Palestinians Rise up As Israel Escalates Attack on Gaza
As Israel escalates attacks on Gaza, Palestinians across the region are rising up with a unity not seen for a generation. Is Israeli apartheid facing its greatest threat?
Biden Announces Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Joe Biden has announced all US troops will leave Afghanistan by September. After 20 years of war, in what state do the US and their British allies leave the country and its people?
Unfinished Revolutions: What Were the Roots of the Arab Uprisings?
David Wearing
Classroom Warfare
Dishing out A-level results in the midst of a pandemic was always going to be hard. That doesn’t excuse a process which has turned into an unprecedented disaster, thrown up arbitrary grades, and dashed the hopes of thousands of young people. But with the poorest hit hardest, is this a case of government incompetence, or of […]
What Could a Corbyn Government Mean for Britain’s Foreign Policy in Oman?
Phil Miller
