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Skating on thin ice
PETER FROST explains how the common skate is far from common – in fact it’s near extinction
Fishing for common skate is prohibited in EU waters
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
LAST WEEK’S Ramblings on the young bearded vulture that toured Britain earlier this summer brought an email from a regular reader.
“Frosty,” it said, “why are you boasting about a beast with an eight-foot-something wing span when up here in the west of Scotland I often look up on a creature with a wingspan a foot or so bigger than that. No, I’m not talking about our golden or sea eagles.
“I’m a diver and the 3m (10ft) plus wingspan I’m talking about is on a fish. Why not tell our Star readers about the amazing skates and rays trying hard to survive on this beautiful part of our coastline?”
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