Peace, justice and a new left party launched in London? LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on speakers highlighting global conflicts, from Gaza to Manipur, as Jeremy Corbyn’s initiative gathers leading lights of the left to grapple with Britain’s progressive political future
Features | Friday 13th Sep 2024 Even after the murder of Aysenur Eygi the White House continues to excuse Israel
Wednesday 04th Sep 2024 Wacky vice presidents are a long Republican tradition JD Vance’s bitterly misjudged ‘childless cat ladies’ broadside broke the internet — but lightweight, bizarre or even downright dangerous vice-presidential picks are the norm for Republicans, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Monday 02nd Sep 2024 A worrying sign of Britain's deepening authoritarianism Sarah Wilkinson has consistently exposed Israel’s atrocities in Gaza on social media. Now, British counter-terrorism authorities are trying to silence her, writes LINDA PENTZ-GUNTER
Monday 26th Aug 2024 Naive, deluded or the next messiah? Robert Kennedy Jnr, in endorsing Donald Trump for president, claims things will be different under his influence and that Trump will ‘honour his word.’ That would be a historic but totally unlikely first, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Saturday 24th Aug 2024 Sacrificed for a ‘victory image’ Israeli hostage families and independent negotiators blame political point scoring for deaths of loved ones and the failure to get a ceasefire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Monday 19th Aug 2024 One fought, but the other wouldn’t. Both went to jail Conscientious objectors and former fighters forge a joint path to peace for Israelis and Palestinians, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Monday 12th Aug 2024 ‘We don’t see Gaza’ – former IDF sniper exposes the dehumanisation enabling the war on Gaza LINDA PENTZ GUNTER meets Breaking the Silence’s Nadav Weiman, who explains how the erasure of Palestinians from maps and rhetoric has enabled brutal occupation and murderous war
Saturday 10th Aug 2024 US and UK boycott Nagasaki commemoration over Israel snub The hypocrisy of the those who dropped the bombs defending another genocide was not lost on protesters, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Thursday 08th Aug 2024 Olympics The punch-up in the press room JUST once in a while, the dull ritual that is a press conference unexpectedly becomes the story, writes Linda Pentz Gunter
Tuesday 06th Aug 2024 Opinion A rush to judgement The condemnation of ‘masculine’ female athletes is part of a wider persecution of women who don’t fit the norms of femininity, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Saturday 06th Jul 2024 A beachhead for democracy survives in Islington North Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign was a built on trust and loyalty, where kindness actually counts for something, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER from north London
