Sorry, but Iran is not the aggressor here | Israel War on Gaza
On Saturday, April 13, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in…
Amid the Israel-Iran escalation, it’s time for a region-wide ceasefire | Opinions
When the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the air strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, he knew what he was doing. Although any…
The crisis in Sudan necessitates urgent action | Opinions
For a brief moment, the eyes of the world were on Sudan as civil war swept the nation last April, following the collapse of the…
How Gaza is changing US campuses | Opinions
For more than five months now, students across the United States have been rallying in support of Palestinians as they face genocide at the hands…
A rubber bullet cost me an eye at a protest, but I am still protesting | Protests
I am a 29-year-old environmental activist from Chaiyaphum, Thailand. I have a passion for people power and a deeply held belief in the pivotal role…
Trump and the US media’s conflict of interest | US Election 2024
On the last day of the Republican National Convention in July 2016, which nominated Donald Trump as the GOP’s candidate for the presidential election, CNN’s…
Israel’s message: ‘Don’t feed the Palestinians’ | Israel War on Gaza
The invading Israeli army ought to have erected signs throughout Gaza that read: “Don’t feed the Palestinians: Punishable by death.” Here’s why. To understand why…
Palestinians and the world must not lose hope | Israel War on Gaza
When in early October we, Palestinians, laid out to the world what was going to happen, our testimonies and foresight were seen as an exaggeration.…
Nuclear energy cannot lead the global energy transition | Climate Crisis
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9 earthquake and a subsequent 15-metre tsunami struck Japan, which triggered a nuclear disaster at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear…
Taliban ban on girls’ education defies both worldly and religious logic | Education
Spring has arrived in Afghanistan, and Afghan children have returned to their schools to begin a new academic year. Girls beyond the 6th grade across…
Lost in Orientalism: Arab Christians and the war in Gaza | Opinions
On February 21, it was announced that the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby refused to meet with Munther Isaac, a Palestinian Lutheran pastor, after Isaac…
The US ‘contingency plan’: Send Haitians to Guantanamo, again | Opinions
In March, amid a flare-up in gang violence that prompted the declaration of a state of emergency in Haiti, the United States made it known…
Delusions at the United Nations | Israel War on Gaza
We have now entered the comforting world of delusions. Earlier this week, 14 members of the United Nations Security Council agreed on a resolution that…
The Global Magnitsky Act: Make it make sense, Joe | Human Rights
The empire has struck again. On March 4, the United States imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa for corruption and serious human rights abuses through…
The EU-Mauritania migration deal is destined to fail | Opinions
On March 7, the European Union and Mauritania inked a 210-million-euro ($227m) migration deal. The agreement was spearheaded by the EU and lobbied for by…
The Canadian arms embargo on Israel that was not | Israel War on Gaza
Alex Cosh is an editor with the status-quo-allergic independent Canadian news upstart, The Maple. Cosh is a young reporter with an old-style muckraker’s temperament. His…
The Max Planck Society must end its unconditional support for Israel | Israel War on Gaza
We, a diverse group of employees at the Max Planck Society (MPS), Germany’s top research institution, are writing this letter to express our disapproval of…
UC regents discuss tightening control of opinions on campus websites
For the second consecutive meeting, University of California regents delayed action Wednesday on a controversial proposal to tighten controls of political expression on campus websites,…
What Aida of Khan Younis can teach us about courage | Opinions
In the days leading up to Ramadan, we heard the hopeful word “ceasefire”. The US president uttered it, and the media repeated it. For a…
Censorship is a crucial complement of genocide | Israel War on Gaza
Last month on the BBC’s flagship news programme, Newsnight, author and journalist Howard Eric Jacobson complained that Britain’s public broadcaster had been showing too many…