Donald Trump’s memorandum of understanding with Tehran marked a defeat for Washington. For all the death and destruction it rained down on Iran, the US was surrendering and suing for “peace”.
American economic resilience, imperialist aggression and class polarisation have far-reaching implications for socialist perspectives in the US and elsewhere. In this guest piece for the anti-empire notes newsletter,
British courts have upheld the proscription of Palestine Action and sentenced four of its activists as terrorists. A series of abuses of legal process ensured these outcomes were all but predetermined, writes Jonathan Cook.
“We’re not asking for much, just the fall of the regime.”
This is one of the slogans being raised in the wave of mass protests currently rocking Syria, in
Michael Karadjis, who has written extensively about the Syrian civil war, responds to a recent article by veteran Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn in the London Review of Books. The
