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Iran stands firm amid US threats!

by our Arab Affairs correspondent

Missiles sweep the skies of the Middle East as the confrontation between Israel and Iran enters its second week of all out war. Israel has closed its borders and is preventing its people from travelling abroad to escape the fighting. Russia has condemned the Israeli offensive as illegal and warned that strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure could trigger a “nuclear catastrophe”. In a statement on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Israel’s attacks on peaceful atomic sites violate international law and threaten global stability. US President Donald Trump, however, has backed Israel and demanded Iran’s “unconditional surrender”.

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People’s China Surges Ahead

by John Maryon

Among the many iconic images of China, from the dramatic night skyline of Shanghai to the mountains of Tibet and the stunning beauty of the mighty Yangtze river, one stands out for me. It is of a fisherman in a small boat, wearing a Wei mao-style broad-brimmed hat, catching his supper with the aid of cormorants perched on a long pole. China is a vast country, similar in size to Europe, with many diverse ethnic groups and with a rich cultural legacy. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) it has experienced amazing social and economic change while still retaining many of the values inherited from its long history of civilisation. .

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Editorial

Stop the drive to war

Trump walks out of the G7 conference in Canada. He threatens to kill the Iranian leader and join Israel in its offensive against the Islamic Republic of Iran. All in all it seems that the American establishment, the “deep state” or war lobby that cuts across the bogus political spectrum in the USA, which represents the most venal and aggressive sections of the American ruling class, is back in charge if the mercurial acts of the man in the White House are anything to go by these days. That, of course, we won’t know for sure as Trump’s bargaining style is a heady mixture of lies, bluff and threats. What we do know is that the entire Middle East will be set ablaze if US imperialism does openly join in the war to save the skin of its Israeli puppet.

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