UK Foreign Policy

Missing in action: essential context in the Israeli attack on Gaza

Missing in action: essential context in the Israeli attack on Gazaby Ian SinclairMorning Star16 January 2024 “Most studies carried out prior to the current fighting in Gaza… have repeatedly found that it is the Israeli perspective that is favoured” in broadcast news coverage, Greg Philo and Mike Berry from the Glasgow Media Group recently noted […]

The British media’s complicity in Israel’s slaughter in Gaza

The British media’s complicity in Israel’s slaughter in Gazaby Ian SinclairMorning Star7 December 2023 Printed in full by Jadaliyya, on October 24 Rami Ruhayem, a BBC correspondent based in Beirut, sent an extraordinary email to BBC Director General Tim Davie, raising “the gravest possible concerns” about the corporation’s post October 7 coverage of the Israel-Palestine […]

Book review: War Made Invisible: How American Hides The Human Toll Of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon

Book review: War Made Invisible: How American Hides The Human Toll Of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomonby Ian SinclairPeace NewsDecember 2023-January 2024 Earlier this year Brown University’s Costs of War project calculated the US-led ‘war on terror’ has led to nearly one million people killed due to direct violence, many more dead from indirect […]

List of experts and organisations describing Israel’s attack on Gaza as genocide, or warning there is a serious risk of genocide

List of experts and organisations describing Israel’s attack on Gaza as genocide, or warning there is a serious risk of genocideby Ian Sinclair21 December 2023 “…the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of […]

Self-defence and the right to resist in Palestine: Marjorie Cohn interview

Self-defence and the right to resist in Palestine: Marjorie Cohn interviewby Ian SinclairMorning Star11-12 November 2023 “Israel has a right to defend herself.” This supposed moral truism has been repeated incessantly, by public figures on the right and left, since the Hamas terror attacks on October 7. Marjorie Cohn, Professor Emerita at Thomas Jefferson School […]

Britain’s nuclear terrorism: interview with Milan Rai

Britain’s nuclear terrorism: interview with Milan Raiby Ian SinclairMorning Star8 November 2023 The Editor of Peace News newspaper and author of the 1994 book Tactical Trident: The Rifkind Doctrine and the Third World, peace activist Milan Rai has recently written several articles about the UK’s nuclear arsenal. Ian Sinclair asked Rai to respond to the […]

Reinforcing the imperium: Joseph Gerson on the US nuclear arsenal

Reinforcing the imperium: Joseph Gerson on the US nuclear arsenalby Ian SinclairMorning Star7 November 2023 In the first of two interviews on the topic, Ian Sinclair speaks to Joseph Gerson, President of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, about his seminal 2007 book Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons […]

Never forget: grassroots protest is a crucial driver in securing positive change

Never forget: grassroots protest is a crucial driver in securing positive changeby Ian SinclairMorning Star16 October 2023 The mainstream political culture – from the media to politicians to academia – often has a hard time recognising the decisive role of grassroots activism and protest in securing political change. For example, last month the Guardian reported […]

Beware the anti-democratic liberal centre

Beware the anti-democratic liberal centreby Ian SinclairMorning Star24 July 2023 If you have read the seemingly endless work of US dissident Noam Chomsky you’ll know he regularly cites twentieth century US intellectuals to highlight the elitist, anti-democratic thinking of the so-called liberal centre. The public are “ignorant and meddlesome outsiders” who should be “spectators, not […]

How opinion polls limit debate on UK foreign policy: interview with Lillah Fearnley

How opinion polls limit debate on UK foreign policy: interview with Lillah Fearnleyby Ian SinclairMorning Star6 July 2023 In May, Rethinking Security, a network of UK-based organisations, academics and activists working for a just and peaceful world, published a major new report Thinking Inside The Box: How Opinion Polls Shape Security Debates And Policy In […]