Patrick Cockburn

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Trump is now embroiled in a religious war - and a forever one

5 days ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

The American attack on three Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday makes the US for the first time an open co-belligerent with Israel in its multi-fronted wars in the Middle East – something that past US governments have avoided for three-quarters of a century, fearing that America would become mired in a never-ending conflict. President Donald Trump claims that Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity at Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan was “completely and totally obliterated” and that Iran “must now make peace”.
Gaza is forgotten and Iran is on the edge - these wars are crueller than Iraq

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

This is Dispatches with Patrick Cockburn, a subscriber-only newsletter from The i Paper. If you’d like to get this direct to your inbox, every single week, you can sign up here. Israel’s wars in Iran and Gaza are poisoning the political waters of the Middle East and the rest of the world even more than the US-led invasion of Iraq did in 2003.
Trump’s crazed antics have guaranteed a legacy of hatred in the Middle East

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

Israel’s surprise attack on Iran, greenlighted by the US, means that states across the world will be more likely to rely in future on force and raw power to gain their ends, ignoring any moral, legal or diplomatic restraints. Donald Trump has returned to Washington, saying that 10 million people “should evacuate Tehran”, presumably because the Iranian capital faces the same death and destruction as Gaza.
Israel’s true goal in Iran is regime change

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

Israel is aiming to degrade or destroy Iran as a regional power in the Middle East, relying on the same military formula of relentless aerial bombardment used in Gaza and Lebanon. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that Israel was justified in launching a surprise attack on Iran because it was close to developing a nuclear bomb.
Trump's Los Angeles tactics prove it: America is hurtling to autocracy

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

As America approaches the 250th anniversary of its declaration of independence, the country is fast returning to the autocratic rule against which the Thirteen Colonies rebelled in 1776. President Donald Trump has struck another blow against free speech and democracy by sending at least 2,000 members of the California National Guard, armed with automatic weapons, into Los Angeles to quell protests against raids by government agents which target illegal immigrants.
Britain’s future is more uncertain than at any time since 1945

4 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

Patrice Claude, London correspondent of Le Monde at the turn of the century, told me that he had no problem forecasting future events in Britain “because whatever happens in the US, happens here five years later”. He was not sneering at British imitativeness, but was disappointed that so many aspects of life in Britain – political, economic, cultural and psychological – mirrored, often in a distorted form, what had already happened in the US.
There is little point in recognising a Palestinian state reduced to rubble

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

The stench of hypocrisy is overwhelming: 19 months into Israel’s destruction of Gaza and its people, Sir Keir Starmer finds himself “horrified” by the savagery of the latest Israeli assault. Eleven weeks after Israel stopped all food deliveries to the 2.3 million Palestinians huddled in the ruins of their homes, the Prime Minister announces that “we cannot allow the people of Gaza to starve”.
Trump and Putin’s call opens the door to talks, but in Ukraine the fighting will go on

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

After President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone for two hours on Monday, Trump said the call went very well and that Moscow and Kyiv “will immediately start negotiations” toward a ceasefire and end to the war. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that the Vatican, “as represented by the Pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations.
Nigel Farage is just like Ian Paisley

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

Nigel Farage is not the first populist nationalist leader in UK politics to have a personality cult which he has used to create a powerful political party centered on himself. The late Rev Ian Paisley did so in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, operating in much the same way as Farage does today. He had a charismatic, self-confident personality and saw enemies of the people – in his case the Protestant people – all around, denouncing them in violent, headline-grabbing terms.
Keir Starmer is the UK's Joe Biden

1 month ago | inews.co.uk | Patrick Cockburn

Sir Keir Starmer is becoming a liability to Labour in the same way Joe Biden was to the Democrats in the US presidential election last year. Voters elected both men hoping for a change for the better, but they are too well integrated into the ruling establishment to deliver. Biden was never articulate and this turned to incoherence under the impact of his advancing age.

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