The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others, as the cancellation by Germany of an arts prize to Caryl Churchill shows.
The Holocaust serves, paradoxically, as an alibi for Europeans to assume they are morally superior to others, as the cancellation by Germany of an arts prize to Caryl Churchill shows.
Hidden by the grand declarations at Cop27 this week is the fact that Europe has made itself a hostage of transnational energy corporations – and will have to pay out astronomical damages to tackle the climate emergency
In a world of self-inflicted collapse, Vladimir Putin is no more insane than his western counterparts. The only sane people are those trying to wake up everyone else, whether by glueing their hands to the road, climbing bridges or hurling soup at paintings.
Itamar Ben Gvir is no aberration. He is just the latest, ugliest incarnation of a Jewish supremacism that has long dominated Israeli politics.
Stark contradictions in West’s treatment of the Ukraine war and the occupation and siege of Palestine should serve as a wake-up call.
Starmer has been tamed like a circus lion, whipped into line by the establishment. Those pressures won’t lift once he is in government. They will intensify.
The Labour leader has made a dirty word of socialism and shown that his own word counts for nothing. A backlash is coming.
The same arrogant, self-righteous posturing from the West that fuelled the Ukraine war is now plunging Europe into recession.
Black suits, hushed tones, an air of reverence conceal the panic of an establishment that has just lost the main vehicle for justifying its privilege.
Journalists aren’t too deferential and timid, as former Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis claims. They are only too ready to bare their teeth when it serves establishment interests.
Allowing only one side to be criticised for its crimes – reinforcing the loaded western political narrative of good guys versus bad guys – is likely to fuel war rather than resolve it.
The contenders for Boris Johnson’s crown swore fealty to Israel just as it unleashed a savage attack on Gaza. It was further proof that politicians in the UK, like those in the US, see Israel as a defining issue in their fight for highest office.
New documentary discloses the ways western publics are softened up for aggressive, global US militarism through the Pentagon’s influence over thousands of films and TV shows.
‘Factionalism’ is identified as an electoral liability by Labour’s new report. But it has only intensified since Jeremy Corbyn’s exit.
Nato’s new posture towards China throws into doubt its whole claim to be a ‘defensive’ alliance.
Four US news organisations have concluded that an Israeli sniper shot Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. But where are the western media when it comes to investigating Israel’s countless other crimes?
While Israel denounces Palestinians and their supporters as liars for speaking of the Nakba, its own officials publicly cite the Nakba as a real event that can be repeated if Palestinians do not submit completely.
Bush’s confusion between his invasion of Iraq and Putin’s invasion of Ukraine wasn’t a ‘gaffe’ – but by treating it that way, the media continues to deflect us from a true understanding of both events.
Two years in, the Labour leader’s war on the left has shifted to ideological tests that even Pope Francis and Amnesty International would fail.
During 20 years of reporting on the conflict, I learned first-hand that Israel’s version of events around the deaths of Palestinians or foreigners can never be trusted.
