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Beware: spying Beluga whales about!
A Beluga whale has turned up in the Norwegian fishing fleet. PETER FROST reminds us of the history of fighting whales and a Thames visitor
An NMMP ( Navy Marine Mammal Program) sea lion attaches a recovery line to a piece of test equipment during training
[NMMP/Creative Commons]
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
The history of using whales in war is long and shocking. Like other evil weapons of war it was the Brits — that’s you and me I’m afraid — that invented it.
Like concentration camps, guided missiles and several hundred other dastardly ways to win a war.
We started in the first world war training zoo-bred sea lions. The navy took them to Lake Bala in Wales to try to train them to find German submarines. They were quick learners, these intelligent sea lions. So intelligent, in fact, that when they were released into the sea they located large schools of herring and mackerel which they ate all day.
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