Trump’s $1.5trn gamble: Will endless conflict win midterm votes?: While eyes were on Caracas, US forces launched attacks across three continents. This is a war presidency https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/trump-military-war-budget-venezuela-caracas/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Israel is acting with impunity. Is it overconfident in Trump’s support?: Horrified by IDF war crimes in Gaza, more Americans are said to support Palestine than Israel for the first time ever https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-act-impunity-trump-support-palestine-gaza-ceasefire-peace-plan-american-opinion/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

With UK politics in flux, Your Party may well surprise you yet: Last weekend, two very different Your Party conferences took place: the one reported on in the press, and the real one https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/your-party-general-election-2029-conference-jeremy-corbyn-zarah-sultana/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Hope amid chaos: Inside Your Party’s inaugural conference: The event was a messy, fractious and, at times, tense display of the kind of true democracy missing from UK politics https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/hope-amid-chaos-inside-your-partys-inaugural-conference/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

This budget shows Labour government is still stuck in short-termism: Labour has tied itself in knots with its fiscal plans and spending cuts – and neither will grow the economy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rachel-reeves-budget-short-termism-labour-government-fiscal-rules/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Yet another government has failed to deliver for Disabled people: Like her Conservative predecessors, Labour’s Reeves has blamed Disabled people for the state’s problems https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rachel-reeves-budget-fails-disabled-people-labour-party/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Israel increasing violence in Palestine despite Trump’s ‘peace’ deal: Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu appears to have free rein to do as he pleases, as UN Security Council backs Gaza plan https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/israel-gaza-donald-trump-peace-deal-attacks-kill-palestinians-hezbollah/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

The most dangerous ‘school’ in the UK: Army must end child recruitment: British Army is putting 16- and 17-year-olds at risk of abuse in desperate drive to increase troops. That must change https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-army-must-end-child-recruitment-afc-harrogate-abuse-revealed/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

Climate finance calls for a new economy: OPINION: The idea that developing countries are merely at earlier stages of a universal path to prosperity is misleading https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/cop30-climate-crisis-finance-development-debt-brazil-neoliberalism/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS

One month into Gaza ceasefire, what does Palestinians’ future look like?: Israel is still launching deadly strikes on Gaza, as Netanyahu seeks to cling to power until next year’s elections https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/one-month-gaza-israel-ceasefire-palestinians-future-binyamin-netanyahu-hamas-donald-trump/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS