Opinion

Wed, 09 Apr 2025, 07:45 am

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Opinion

The no-rules international order

Israel’s massacre on the tent camp in Rafah is just the latest. For decades now, Tel Aviv – like Washington – has defied any attempt to apply international humanitarian law

Perils and promise of emerging multipolar world

The world economy is experiencing a deep process of economic convergence, according to which regions that once lagged the west in industrialisation are now making up for lost time, writes

Lanka economic recovery needs no referendum

GOVERNMENT leaders appear to be considering all options for remaining in office beyond the constitutionally mandated periods of five years for the presidency and parliament. The United National Party general

Land, legacy and the future

HUMANITY came into being after most ecosystem services had been in operation. The land feeds, clothes and shelters us. It sustains our economies, lives and livelihoods. About 99 per cent

The military-industrial complex is killing us all

WE NEED to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they

If the wars go on

I SUPPOSE my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about World

Burning of Rafah’s tent people

Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold? — John Milton, Paradise Lost PEOPLE were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel

Mass media, social media, and new civil war

HOW close are we to being in the movie? Leila and I went to the Baghdad Theatre, down the road from our apartment in Portland, Oregon, to see the new

Israel’s onslaught of revenge

AS AMAL Nassar lay in pain on a bed at the Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat refugee camp in northern Gaza, the echoes of explosions and artillery fire could be

A certain French stubbornness

FRANCE’S Emmanuel Macron can, at times, show himself at odds with the grime and gristle of grounded politics. Able to pack in various snatches of philosophical reflection in a speech,