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…
The key election for Russia is in November | Opinions
The Russian presidential election was not expected to be a cliffhanger. The victory of incumbent President Vladimir Putin was very much ensured by the absence…
Taking a page from the French anti-Islam playbook, UK redefines ‘extremism’ | Islamophobia
As the genocide in Gaza continues to be streamed live to our screens, many Western governments are not only refusing to end their complicity in…
The case for no candidate like Biden ever again | Opinions
The past three years of United States President Joe Biden’s administration have been perceived as an amazing success and dismal failure, depending on who you…
The criminal hypocrisy of Hernandez’s drug conviction in a US court | Opinions
On Friday, March 8, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted on three counts of drug trafficking and weapons conspiracy in a Manhattan federal…
Schrödinger’s genocide | Genocide | Al Jazeera
Bosnians have experience with genocide. Not just the signs of it coming. Not just the fact of it happening. But also this strange phenomenon we…
Play in Israel, just don’t pretend you didn’t know | Opinions
Since October 7, scores of writers have authored scores of columns pleading – to no avail – with prominent politicians who wield transformative power to…
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act is a devious anti-Muslim dog whistle | India Election 2024
India moved a step closer to formalising itself as a majoritarian country with the announcement of the rules to operationalise the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA),…
The never-ending war on truth | Media
On March 9, 2015, five men driving a white truck with a concealed number plate abducted Itai Dzamara, a Zimbabwean journalist and activist, from a…
Criticism of Israel’s war and occupation is not anti-Semitism | Opinions
Anti-Semitism is a plague. And one that is, as I have realised in the aftermath of Hamas’s horrific terror attack in Israel on October 7,…
Russia after Navalny | Opinions
In the first days of March, thousands of Russians flocked to Borisovskoye Cemetery in a far-flung corner of Moscow to pay their respects to the…
Remembering the beauty of Ramadan in Gaza | Israel War on Gaza
The holy month of Ramadan has started. Muslims across the world are fasting, spending time with their families and dedicating themselves to prayer and worship.…
Can Michigan save Palestine? | Opinions
These are dark times for anyone with even a modicum of sympathy for the Palestinian people, who are facing another national catastrophe, comparable to the…