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The US is to blame for the crisis with North Korea, and the US could solve it
The main threat to world peace comes from the US’s record of unilateral military actions – exactly as those who opposed them warned at the time.
Poverty, illness, homelessness – no wonder McDonald’s UK workers are going on strike
McDonald’s staff are making history by striking fighting for £10 an hour pay – their boss earns £5,684 in the same time.
Ahmed (surfing the waves). By Lowkey
did ahmed not deserve a life? / ahmed never hurt a fly / ahmed never knew the politicians he was murdered by
Johnny Cash’s family tells white supremacists: get our father’s name out of your mouth
To any who claim supremacy over other human beings, to any who believe in racial or religious hierarchy: we are not you.
The last time the US launched ‘fire and fury’ on North Korea, a third of the population died
The world has not been closer to nuclear war since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, says Phil Hearse
Living today in a landfill of smothered hope and dashed expectations
Daily misery is normal under neoliberal capitalism, because misery is what the system asks of you.
Radiohead in Israel: A fig leaf for apartheid
Radiohead can “take the money and run”. The Palestinians’ struggle for freedom, justice and equality goes on.
What to do if capitalism fails: the most inspiring story you will read today
If you’re tired of politicians playing at populism, come and see what democracy looks like when exercised directly by the people themselves.
Naomi Klein and Jeremy Corbyn discuss how to get the world we want
It’s not about you or I as individuals. When people’s minds are opened up, there is no end to the possibilities.
Why Radiohead are wrong to play Israel on 19 July
“Every international artist who plays in Israel serves as a propaganda tool for the Israeli government.”
The Grenfell fire inquiry will be a stitch-up – and here’s why
Why should the government set the terms of a public inquiry into its own failings? An inquiry that honours the dead would investigate the wider causes of this crime.
Survivors demand Theresa May sack Grenfell inquiry judge
Grenfell survivors fear a whitewash after judge Martin Moore-Bick said the public inquiry will be limited to how the fire started.