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The foreign policy article the media did not want you to read
MATTHEW ALFORD presents here an article he wrote charting US and British military aggression across the globe – and tells the story of what happened to that article once it arrived in the inbox of editors at a respected liberal publication
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
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
WHEN Noam Chomsky observed that the United States had invaded South Vietnam he was upending the 1960s’ most pervasive case of groupthink — that the US was in Vietnam to defend the South from communists in the North.
However, the young professor was emphatically right and, by the end of the war in 1975, two-thirds of US bombs had fallen on the South.
Similarly, when Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, Chomsky cut a lonely figure by observing that the attack had even happened.
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