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Mon, 20 Jan 2025, 12:43 am

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Opinion

US war against Yemen heats up

Slowly the US war on Yemen is turning into a quagmire for Pax Americana which can only respond in the language it knows best, brute force, writes Thomas C Mountain THE

THE testimonies emerging from Palestinians held captive by the Israeli military in Al-Shifa hospital, which was under persistent siege for 14 days, are harrowing: torture, starvation, executions, the mutilation and

Conundrum of Lanka elections and IMF programme

TRACING history and going back to the colonial era, Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that despite the adverse impact of world wars and internal conflicts, the country has

Paralleling grassroot memories with historiography

THIS narrative swirls between the mainstream historiography of the 1947 Bengal Partition and the reminiscences of the grassroots Hindu-Muslim encounters on the eve of that epoch-making split. The middle of

Gaza war sparks tensions

The Berlin International Film Festival is no stranger to politics. The Middle East conflict was bound to cause debates and protests this year, writes Elizabeth Grenier THE Berlinale is renowned as

Palestine’s struggle for self-rule

THE world is consumed, pained, and angered by Israel’s uninterrupted bombing and killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank with an open genocidal intent that has entered its

US complicity in Israel’s ‘plausible’ genocide

‘HONOURING our alliances does not mean facilitating mass killing,’ Representative Ocasio-Cortez said on the floor of the House of Representatives on March 22. ‘We cannot hide from our responsibility any

How Was 12th National Parliamentary Election? (Last Part)

The voter turnout was far less than the declared figure as was perceived and was shown with reasons earlier. Naturally, the question arises of how the average of 41.8% voter

Assange’s ‘reprieve’ is another lie

THE interminable and abhorrent saga of Julian Assange’s incarceration for the crime of journalism continues. And once again, the headline news is a lie, one designed both to buy our

World stands still and its inhabitants spin

FROM battlefields to legislative arenas, and to Academy Awards, it is difficult to reconcile reality with the manner in which events are presented to the public. The world stands still