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Netanyahu and Gaza – How Should Britain Respond?
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The Gaza Genocide has become an element in the long-planned continuation of the Greater Israel project, but it was initially an experiment. For Netanyahu, it was a test of the resolve of the western powers to uphold decades-old ideas about human rights and the ‘rules of war’ established after WWII, which were designed to protect civilians and outlaw the annexation of land occupied during hostilities. He must have been surprised when there was so little response when he started pushing the envelope, but as time went on it became apparent that with active American encouragement, and a more passive kind…
The Nuclear Deterrent and Reality in the UK Political Scene
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The United Kingdom’s nuclear deterrent sits at the centre of a sharpening political debate. As billions are committed to renewing the Trident programme and deepening NATO nuclear cooperation, fundamental questions are being asked about strategic independence from the United States, about the true cost to Britain’s defence budget, about the burden the deterrent places on Royal Navy strategy, and about what each major party actually believes. This article surveys the landscape: the current programme, its fiscal and naval consequences, and where Labour, the Conservatives, the Liberal Democrats, and the Greens stand. The UK Nuclear Deterrent Today Britain’s deterrent rests on…
Oil, Empire, and Resistance – A History of Western Interference in Iranian Affairs from 1909 to the current conflict
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On 26 May 1908, a British drilling crew working for William Knox D’Arcy struck oil at Masjed Soleiman in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains. It was the first major oil discovery in the Middle East, and it would transform Iran’s relationship with the outside world forever. Within a year, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was incorporated, and the machinery of foreign control over one of the world’s most strategically vital nations was set in motion. What followed over the next century was a sustained pattern of British, and later American, interference in Iranian sovereign affairs — a story of…
