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We can’t go on like this
As the world is consumed by violence and conflict that the UN has failed to prevent, ROGER McKENZIE argues that a new international architecture is needed, without a built-in bias towards the interests of the West
UN general secretary Antonio Guterres
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
THE murderous war crimes being committed openly by Israeli forces against the Palestinians, the conflicts in Ukraine, Yemen and all the other combat zones, leads any reasonable person to ask — who and where are the peacemakers?
When Israel carries out such war crimes as using white phosphorus on Gaza, and hardly a slap on the wrist is the result, the understandable temptation is to stay in the news cycle, without stepping back to consider how this and other conflicts can be prevented or halted.
There does not seem like much of a concerted attempt to bring about a ceasefire or humanitarian solution in the two most talked-about conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine.
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