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The US is losing its world superpower status

31 Mar 2020

The US may be reaching its “Chernobyl moment” as it fails to lead in combating the coronavirus epidemic. As with the nuclear accident in the Soviet Union in 1986, a...

Neglect of mental health puts society in danger

08 Mar 2020

On March 30, last year, a man suffering from severe mental illness walked out of his flat in north London and stabbed a woman in the back with a knife,...

This is why the US repeatedly demonises Assange

23 Feb 2020

I was in Kabul in 2010 when Julian Assange and WikiLeaks first released a vast archive of classified US government documents, revealing what Washington really knew about what was happening...

Sinn Fein’s victory is Ireland’s ‘Brexit moment’

16 Feb 2020

“People wanted to kick the government and Sinn Fein provided the shoe to do the kicking,” says Christy Parker, a journalist from the beautiful but de-industrialised town of Youghal in...

Are people more frightened than they need to be?

09 Feb 2020

If I was sitting in a restaurant and said in a loud voice that I had probably contracted coronavirus, many other customers might get up and leave. But I would...

The forces that broke up Soviet Union and Yugoslavia have ominous points in common with those now threatening EU

02 Feb 2020

My favourite slogan about Brexit over the past three years is written in large white letters on a red gable wall in the Tigers Bay district of Belfast. It was...

Erdogan’s action on the Kurds is still happening

17 Nov 2019

Mass expulsion or the physical extermination of an entire ethnic or religious community — ethnic cleansing — is usually treated by the media in one of two different ways: either...

Like N.Ireland, Great Britain is being swept by nationalism

03 Nov 2019

Britain is becoming more and more like Northern Ireland. This should be a comfort to Arlene Foster and the DUP as they rue their betrayal by Boris Johnson over the...

The vacuum left by the United States in Syria

13 Oct 2019

“Never get into a well with an American rope” goes the saying spreading across the Middle East, as the US abandons its Kurdish allies in Syria to a Turkish invasion...

Johnson recklessly picks at the scabs of Ireland’s violent past

05 Aug 2019

On 8 May 1987 a Provisional IRA unit of eight men attacked a police station in the village of Loughgall in county Armagh 15 miles from the Irish border. ...

Patrick Cockburn

Patrick Cockburn is an award-winning Independent columnist who specialises in analysis of Iraq, Syria and wars in the Middle East. He has been with The Independent since 1990.

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