‘Arming of Israel must stop’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Gaza situation a ‘genocide’ that can end if the US flow of weapons to Israel stops, while Republican Tim Walberg calls for Israel to nuke Gaza and ‘get it over quick,’ writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Wednesday 28th Feb 2024 Is Trump pathological? From forensic psychiatrists to Bernie Sanders and now a New York judge, everyone seems to think so, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Wednesday 07th Feb 2024 Biden can’t take the ‘left vote’ for granted His continued support for Israel’s war in Gaza and escalation against Iran could cost Biden the election in November and deliver another Trump presidency, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Monday 05th Feb 2024 Murder for murder in the US: the death penalty still disgraces a nation Last month’s botched execution in Alabama has brought this shameful institution back into the spotlight, after the condemned man seemed to struggle for life, writhing in agony for several minutes, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Thursday 01st Feb 2024 The United States is the world’s biggest military superpower. So why can’t they defeat a ‘faction’ like the Houthis? THE United States military is unarguably the most powerful and well-armed fighting force in the world.
Friday 26th Jan 2024 ‘Live free or die’ — Trump in New Hampshire A Trump win in New Hampshire was inevitable — but who actually voted for him? LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on an unconventional race in a maverick state
Thursday 25th Jan 2024 The Doomsday Clock’s dire assessment of 2024 The clock symbolically shows how close we are to ‘midnight’ — nuclear war — and this year it is only 90 seconds away, the closest it's ever been, warns LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Tuesday 10th May 2022 Wales is Westminster’s latest nuclear football Johnson’s government has announced new nuclear reactors on Anglesey, but it’s home-grown renewables jobs for locals that are needed, that would ease fuel poverty and minimise harm to the environment, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Friday 29th Apr 2022 Opinion Politics and sports do mix. Silencing either is a mistake LINDA PENTZ GUNTER fights the corner of Russian and Belarusian athletes who are facing the consequences of crimes committed by an autocratic leader
Wednesday 09th Mar 2022 Do we face a disaster ‘10 times larger than Chernobyl?’ We have never seen a war break out in a region with functioning nuclear reactors — and Ukraine has 15. This spells potential armageddon for Europe, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Thursday 03rd Feb 2022 Nuclear power plants: a risk in Ukraine? Europe is worried about gas – but the real danger is nuclear, if a regional conflict were to lead to a Fukushima-style meltdown in any of the embattled nation’s 15 reactors, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
