The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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Cameron's New Cold War
DAVID MORGAN takes a look at the latest Strategic Defence and Security Review – and finds that the Tories are prioritising global power games over keeping this country safe
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
EVERY state that ever existed in world history has sought to justify its actions abroad by claiming that it is has the moral right and justice on its side.
Only fundamentalist regimes or non-state actors such as Isis today still insist that “God is on their side,” but as recently as the first world war of 1914-18, both contending sets of imperial powers insisted that they had divine approval.
Today modern states such as Britain seek to justify their foreign policy on the basis of defending the national interest, upholding human rights and supporting their allies.
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