Freedom Flotilla: Did Israel just block 5,500 tons of aid to Gaza? Guinea-Bissau has now withdrawn its flag from the Freedom Flotilla — but British humanitarian, Sarah Wilkinson, who intends to sail to Gaza with the activist fleet, says organisers are undeterred, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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
Monday 20th Dec 2021 Fight or Flight? To stay in the Labour Party or resign? For those who might still be understandably tempted to send in their Labour Party membership card with a “please purge me” message; “it would be an
Tuesday 23rd Feb 2021 Republicans now forced to support Trump — or face the consequences The enemy was already inside the Capitol before the January 6 riot — and the right-wing purges against the saner US conservatives beyond those walls are just beginning, warns LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Thursday 28th Jan 2021 From pandemic to poverty Among many challenges, the Biden administration will need to tackle hunger and homelessness, says LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Friday 22nd Jan 2021 We’ve finally escaped from the rubber room of rage Trump and his criminal cronies contaminated us – his departure brings relief, says LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Saturday 09th Jan 2021 The ugly face of US exceptionalism The insurrection at the Capitol was not ‘an abberation’ – but is symptomatic of a nation whose history and culture are filled with violence and injustice, says LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Wednesday 11th Nov 2020 Biden: some reasons to celebrate The next US president isn’t perfect but after four years of a cruel and criminal cabal, we need to recognise what we have won, argues LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Wednesday 16th Sep 2020 Black Lives Matter accused of heralding a ‘lesbian, anti-family, anti-capitalist Marxist revolution’ The right-wing evangelical political figure Michelle Bachmann's outburst accidentally summoned a utopian vision for the US, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Monday 31st Aug 2020 If only Biden was a ‘wild-eyed Marxist’ Trump’s labelling of the Democratic presidential candidate as ‘a Trojan horse for socialism’ is hilariously wide of the mark, says LINDA PENTZ GUNTER