The CommonSpace Show returns –  featuring CommonSpace journalists David Jamieson and Rhiannon Davies discussing the week’s big stories.

For this edition, we are joined by freelance journalist Karin Goodwin who regularly contributes to both the Sunday National and The Ferret. Earlier this year she was awarded the Nicola Barry award at the Scottish Press Awards for her campaigning journalism. She focuses mainly on social issues, and has covered homelessness and the Serco evictions in depth. 

Scottish Venezuela Solidarity Campaign appeals to Scotland’s progressive parties to oppose “US-sponsored regime change”

The US president reportedly threatened to exit NATO over member states’ military spending

UNITED STATES president Donald Trump has today (12 July) threatened to split from NATO in a bid to press leaders to commit to increased military spending targets – a move anti-war campaigners have urged Prime Minister Theresa May to reject.

"The only ones that will benefit from the drive for ever-greater military spending are the arms companies that stand to make a killing from it,” said Andrew Smith of Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT).

Trump’s Iran Deal pull-out is already leading to an escalation of middle eastern war, but, CommonSpace editor Ben Wray asks, will the UK ultimately continue in its role as America’s poodle?

IF YOU are in Syria or Yemen the idea that Trump’s Iran deal pull-out is going to make your life any worse would probably be responded to with a weary, bitter laugh, at best. How could it? The two countries are in ruins - populations dead, displaced or malnourished - due to the utter carnage of war.

Public and parliamentary opinion against intervention as government presses ahead with plans for missile attack

JUST 22 per cent of Britons support the UK Government’s plans to begin missile strikes on Syria, a YouGov poll has found.

Commissioned by The Times newspaper, a new poll shows support for UK airstrikes against Syria is down by two points from 25 per cent in 2013, when MPs voted against military intervention in the ongoing civil war. 43 per cent of voters now say they oppose airstrikes, while 34 per cent say they ”don’t know”.

Opposition ramps up as Trump’s visit to the UK is back on the agenda

NUMBER 10 has confirmed that a working – not state – visit from US President Donald Trump is back on the cards in 2018, following a joint press conference with Prime Minister Theresa May at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday.

Sammy Stein of Glasgow Friends of Israel believes President Donald Trump's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital could be a help, rather than a hindrance, to peace

DESPITE the furore of President Donald's Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, there was a notable lack of any condemnation when Russia did exactly the same thing earlier this year. 

The decision, taken by Russia in April 2017, made it the first country in the world to extend such a recognition to any part of the city.

CommonSpace columnist Siobhan Tolland says UK Prime Minister Theresa May has shown her true colours after deals with the US and Turkey

IT'S been a good week for the fascists and a bad week for everyone else. 

Donald Trump is speeding up his racist segregation and shutting down the borders like, well, like the unstable, nuke-wielding fascist he really is. It’s an extremely difficult part of history to sit by and watch, feeling helpless.

Commonspace columnist James McEnaney attacks Theresa May’s cowardice and calls on Scotland’s politicians to stand up to Donald Trump

CommonSpace columnist Yvonne Ridley says President Donald Trump has no understanding of women's welfare

THE new US president is a self-confessed sexual predator, serial liar, rampant xenophobe, racist and misogynist but I thought even he would show some restraint when he entered the White House earlier this week.

However, within a matter of hours the Oval Office looked more like a locker room for the sort of white, privileged men Donald Trump likes to hang out with.