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With the same depressing predictability of England being defeated in a major football tournament via a late-night penalty-shoot-out, the UK government’s announcement that mandatory masks and Covid restrictions would end on July 19 has been met with outright hostility from many on what one could call the ‘progressive’ side of …

There are widespread reports of anti-government protests in Cuba. Aggravated by Covid-19 and the country’s struggling economic situation, some people took to the streets calling for an end to the island’s communist regime.  This has, unsurprisingly, provoked an outpouring of support from the western mainstream media and all the usual suspects in …

It’s only the most inspirational book of all time – a Pulitzer Prize winner that was originally banned for its raw depiction of racism and sexual violence. But now one school in Scotland has banned ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ for another reason: because it plays into a “white-saviour narrative”.  When I …

Appearing on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, Omar was confronted about a series of comments her critics have pointed to recently to accuse her of anti-Semitism, as well as to call for her removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Tapper cited multiple tweets by Omar, one from 2019 …

In a blistering effort to support “freedom” in Iran, the US authorities recently seized the web domains of its international media networks Press TV and Al-Alam, along with those of a host of other outlets. Of the 36 seized, 33 were operated by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union (IRTVU), …

The United States is facing a perfect storm of crises of its own making. On the domestic front, the American democratic institution is collapsing under the weight of centuries of unresolved societal inequities that threaten to divide the country into two irreconcilable factions. In the Pacific, decades of geopolitical neglect …

In an interview broadcast on Monday, Putin hit out at suggestions he was threatened by dissent, with Simmons raising the case of imprisoned activist Alexey Navalny. “Who says that I feel threatened by opposition or we are threatened by opposition? Who told you that I’m scared by opposition?” he demanded. …

He said he wished for more equality in the future, and for strong countries like the US not to meddle in other nations’ affairs. “This idea of the Americans to be a beacon for the world and not let anyone else compete economically is wrong. Americans must know that we …

“Joe Biden is the first American president who doesn’t want America to be a nation at all,” Trump said in a scorching statement issued on Wednesday. He added, “Our country is being destroyed before our very eyes.” The statement came one day after the Biden administration formally ended the Trump-era …

The Rio Negro, Neuquen and La Pampa Private Oil and Gas Union – which has 24,000 members, many of whom are employed at the Vaca Muerta shale oil formation – insisted that it would only wait until the end of next week for permission from the government in Buenos Aires. …