US’ success in unilaterally ripping up the Iran deal and re-imposing sanctions despite European protests shows it’s wrong-headed to think the American Empire is entering a Last Days of Rome scenario, Ben Wray finds

JUST one day before the midterm elections in the United States, Donald Trump has shown that when it comes to hard power, America is still the world’s policeman, regardless of how just or unjust its actions may be.

14 million on verge of famine in Yemen primarily due to Saudi bombing

A WRITTEN question to the UK Government has revealed that Saudi pilots are being trained at RAF Valley in Wales.

Saudi Arabia is currently engaged in a bombing campaign of Yemen which NGOs have said is primarily responsible for “the worst humanitarian crisis in the world”. UN Aid Chief Mark Lowcock told the UN Security Council last week that the country was on the verge of the worst famine in 100 years, with 14 million on the verge of starvation.

First Unexplained Wealth Order was issued earlier this month

A US-BASED global activism group has started a petition to back former SNP MP George Kerevan’s call for the Scottish Government to issue an Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO) on US President Donald Trump.

Jamie Wood, from Boca Raton in Florida who is in recovery and been sober for 6 years, argues that drug addiction is endemic in western society, and won’t be effectively tackled until the stigma around it is challenged head on, and we all become comfortable with normalising interventions

CommonSpace analyses why the Trump-Putin Summit was so significant

THE press conference following the Summit in Helsinki between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will perhaps be remembered as one of the most politically remarkable in recent memory, as the US president set himself against not just the US media and foreign policy establishment, but also his own Intelligence services.

The United States has long defined its enemies as ‘rogue states’. Is the world starting to realise that Trump’s America fits the bill?

UNTIL the advent of the Trump administration, the idea that the US could be a rogue state was counter-intuitive to the common wisdom of mainstream political discourse in the West. The US accused such troublesome nations of that tag; the republic commonly regarded as the last remaining superpower could not, by definition, become one itself.

On #WorldRefugeeDay, CommonSpace editor Ben Wray says that while Donald Trump’s family separation policies towards migrants seeking to enter the US has touched a nerve, the problem of how we treat immigrants and refugees is much deeper than one President and will require systemic changes to address

Demonstration organiser Jonathon Shafi laughed at claims from Tories that Scotland could be a safe haven from protests for Trump

A POSSIBLE visit to Scotland by US President Donald Trump will trigger “a monster response”, as anti-Trump activists and politicians prepare to announce details of demonstrations around the country.