Having been beaten militarily, the USA and its allies continue to use economic and terroristic means to try to keep the Afghan people down.

As information trickles in, it is becoming clear that Nato and its proxies are losing the ground war to Russia and the Donbass antifascist forces in east Ukraine.

President Putin’s declared objectives of demilitarisation and denazification look likely to be fulfilled.

The ravages of Covid have added to the longstanding issues of poverty, hunger, unemployment and corruption which brought down Ben Ali a decade ago.

As war after war ends in defeat, the much-touted ‘new American century’ is turning out to be the era of imperial decline.

‘I am here because I stole something that was never mine to take – precious human life.’

But in doing so, it is only weakening its own already shaky position in the middle east.

The genocidal onslaught on Yemen is either ignored or misrepresented in western media, obscuring the fact that all the justifications for the war are lies.

People across the middle east continue to suffer war and economic hardships as the price of living on top of coveted oil resources.

Australia and Britain are helping to get the WikiLeaks editor extradited to the USA, which is preparing a lifetime of torture for the ‘crime’ of exposing the truth.

Self-defence is no offence; those who really want to stop war must stand with the resistance.

Slavishly supported by Britain as it does so.

Who is attempting to manipulate the just anger of the Iraqi people and why?

Why are we still expected to pay any attention to the imperialists’ neverending barrage of fake news?

Trump admits it’s all about the oil and moves to steal as much of it as he can.

Will Kurdish separatists finally learn the lesson that they are entirely disposable to the imperialists?

Why has this huge step towards Syria’s total liberation been greeted with such howls of rage by those on the self-identifying ‘left’?

Imperialist media continue to ignore or distort the plight of civilians trapped in US-controlled refugee camps.

If Daesh is truly defeated on the ground in Syria, it is to the eternal credit of the Syrian army and people, not US imperialism and its hirelings.

A collective howl of rage from the liberal establishment greeted Trump’s announcement, but whether or not they manage to put the brakes on, the war in Syria is lost.