On Sunday 2nd October, Hungary held a national referendum over the mandatory resettlement of refugees in the country. The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, had hoped to use the vote to strengthen his authority both at home and abroad. Instead, he has suffered arguably his most embarrassing setback since he came to power in 2010.

As western media overflows with damning images of the atrocities carried out in Syria’s Aleppo, the humanitarian disaster in Yemen is being more or less quietly brushed under the carpet. The reason? The West is elbow deep in the Yemeni tragedy. Hamid Alizadeh looks at the blatant hypocrisy of the western imperialists.

On Sunday evening, the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees met again for another televised debate. The liberal media’s most hated buffoon and “Killary” Clinton took center stage to “debate” the issues confronting the US and the world. Both were a faithful representation of the senile and decrepit capitalist system.