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The blues are back with a vengeance
Blue whales, some 100 feet long and weighing 160 tons, are the most massive creatures ever seen on our planet. PETER FROST reports them doing well in Antarctic waters
A blue whale
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE immense cruise ships may be doing what they can to deplete whale numbers by running the behemoths down in mid-ocean, but one family of whales — the blues – are doing well, despite all we and the environment can throw at them.
Scientists have seen and filmed a huge pod of blue whales in the coastal waters around the Antarctic island of South Georgia. They counted 55 animals, unprecedented in the decades since commercial whaling ended.
South Georgia was once the centre for hunting in the early 20th century.
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