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FIFA recently punished Indonesia for boycotting Israel, a country that consistently shoots soccer players in the knees so that they are unable to play in international sporting events

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As Israel is slammed over human rights abuses, some are decrying the UK's Rishi Sunak for deepening military ties with the apartheid state. Jessica Buxbaum reveals just how deep those ties go.

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Alex Saurez, author of “The Diplomat," a book about the US kidnapping of Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab, joins Lee Camp to discuss the exreajudicial kidnapping, the court case that followed, and much more.

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Disgusting – and hypocritical and probably racist – ploy backfires Keir Starmer’s Labour party has managed to disgust both left and right – and to scrape through the bottom of a truly hypocritical barrel – by exploiting abused children in an appalling attempt to score cheap political points. Starmer’s Labour tweeted its latest campaign tactic […]

Israel has begun bombing Gaza, and Tyre in southern Lebanon, according to emerging reports. No further details of the attack are yet available, but recent protests against the right-wing extremist Israeli government’s attack on the country’s legal system may well have led Netanyahu and co to seek a distraction from their woes and lawlessness at […]

Ferguson et al.'s revised INET working paper on Trump and the 2016 election is temporarily available on open access from the International Journal of Political Economy.

The Roots of Right-Wing Populism: Donald Trump in 2016