A truck bomb exploded in Baghdad on July 3, killing at least 292 people and wounding hundreds of others. The bombing, for which ISIS claimed responsibility, had the highest death toll of any terrorist bombing in Iraq since the US, Britain and Australia invaded the country in 2003.
Britain
The victory of the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union (鈥淏rexit鈥) in the June 23 referendum was the result of 鈥 and is intensifying 鈥 a huge right-wing anti-immigration campaign.
The release of the Chilcot Report on July 6 has led to renewed calls for former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his role in starting the Iraq War.
England lose to Iceland and 鈥淏rexit鈥 from Euro2016, June 27.
What a time to be in London. My family's long-planned vacation has given us a ringside seat for the greatest humiliations suffered by Britain since boxer Frank Bruno tried to take down a young Mike Tyson.
British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said on July 6 that public opposition to the war in Iraq had been 鈥渧indicated鈥 鈥 and called on politicians who ignored pleas for peace to 鈥渇ace up to the consequences鈥.
For some people, it was impossible to believe that this day would come. Seven years after John Chilcot started to take evidence in a British inquiry into the Iraq War and 12 years after the previous inquiry into the war, many anti-war protesters could be forgiven for being sceptical about what the report would say.
First impressions, announced over microphones and megaphones while being read from mobile phones, were met with a militant response. There was a sense of vindication for those of us who opposed the war from the outset and has renewed our determination.
The media-backed attempted coup by right-wing Labour Party MPs against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has failed, amid large demonstrations and public meetings across Britain defending the left-wing leader.
The article below was published by Tony Norfield on his in the lead up to the June 23. It looks at the impact of British imperialism on all sides of the 'Brexit' debate.
The vast majority of British Labour MPs 鈥 81% 鈥 and their accomplices in the country's liberal media are attempting a coup against Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
The veteran socialist MP was elected by Labour's members only nine months ago with the largest mandate ever won.
He won because he had set himself apart from other Labour politicians throughout his decades in office by his commitment to working class interests 鈥 and especially by voting against the Tory's attack on the poor last year while 184 Labour MPs (88%) abstained.
Since Britain voted by a narrow margin on June 23 to leave the European Union, England has been hit by a significant rise in incidents of racist and xenophobic harassment and violence in the country.
John O'Connell, from anti-racism group Far Right Watch, told Al Jazeera on June 29 that his group had documented more than 90 incidents in the past three days, ranging from 鈥渧erbal abuse up to physical violence鈥.
Ten thousand people of Labour's left-wing leader Jeremy Corbyn 鈥 elected leader last year in a landslide vote that marked a rejection of pro-austerity politics 鈥 outside of Westminster on June 27, as right-wing Labour Party MPs took advantage of the fallout from the Brexit vote to move against the party leader.
The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people refused to be bullied, intimidated and dismissed with open contempt by their presumed betters in the major parties, the leaders of the business and banking oligarchy and the media.
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