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01 April 2014
The West and Russia are continuing their phoney war over Ukraine.
18 March 2014
Crimea has joined the Russian Federation as the Ukrainian crisis continues to be a faultline for the major powers. The outcome of a referendum in Crimea last weekend was a foregone conclusion.
11 March 2014
Two British citizens who were extradited to the US on terrorism charges are challenging a witness.
11 March 2014
Former Black Panther Eddie Conway has been released after almost 44 years in prison.
04 March 2014
The arrival of Russian troops on the streets of Crimea is producing an ever?escalating war of words from global political leaders.
04 March 2014
The Ukrainian parliament ratified an agreement on Tuesday to receive £500 million in loans from the EU.
04 March 2014
Europe depends heavily on commerce with Russia, especially on energy.
04 March 2014
Intervention in Crimea has escalated a deadly game between Russia and the West, writes Simon Basketter
03 March 2014
Russia’s seizure of military control over Crimea has brought Ukraine to the brink of war. This crisis represents the coming together of three distinct conflicts.
25 February 2014
After the government falls and rebels claim victory, Simon Basketter looks at the situation in Ukraine
11 December 2013
Babar Ahmad and Talha Ahsan, two British men extradited to the US in October last year after long court cases, appeared in court in New Haven yesterday, Tuesday, and changed their pleas to guilty.
03 December 2013
Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill set out to put names, faces and stories to the victims of the Western military in his new film Dirty Wars. He spoke to Judith Orr about his journey to expose the slaughter of the “war on terror”
03 December 2013
Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill looks at the shadowy Joint Special Operations Command in his new film Dirty Wars
26 November 2013
It’s an open question whether or not the deal struck last weekend in Geneva between Iran and the United States, alongside five other “world powers”, will stick, writes Alex Callinicos
26 November 2013
The US state of Alabama has granted posthumous pardons to three black teenagers wrongly accused of raping two white women on a train in 1931.
26 November 2013
Afghan prime minister Hamid Karzai has delayed signing a deal allowing the US to keep 15,000 occupying troops in Afghanistan for another decade.
19 November 2013
Actor Colman Domingo from the hit show Scottsboro Boys speaks to Dave Sewell about how the musical provokes the audience to look at racism in the here and now
19 November 2013
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Mafia conspired to carry out an assassination 50 years ago this week. They plotted to take out a president—Fidel Castro of Cuba, and they did it under the orders of US president John F Kennedy.
29 October 2013
Car bombs in Baghdad killed dozens of people on Sunday of last week.
22 October 2013
Captain Phillips, a tale of kidnapping on the high seas, promotes its empathy for desperate Somalis—but Dave Sewell says it turns the real villains into heroes