The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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Interview with Tamino Bohm: Sea Watch's head of airborne operations
Ben Cowles speaks to the man responsible for the remarkable airborne component of the heroic volunteer organisation that rescues refugee boats sinking in the Mediterranean
Tamino Boehm preparing to take to the skies in search of ailing refugee boats
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
THE Moonbird took off from the airport on the Italian island of Lampedusa on June 25 looking for stranded refugees in the central Mediterranean.
“We were on two missions that day because it was so busy at sea,” says Tamino Bohm, the head of German refugee-rescue organisation Sea Watch’s airborne operations.
“Originally, we were looking for a wooden boat in the Maltese search-and-rescue (SAR) zone,” the 28-year-old German says.
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