Wed, 23 Jul 2025, 09:21 am
Opinion

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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2024: people starve as the rich get richer

EARNING enough to pay the rent or mortgage, cover utility bills and travel costs, buy food and have the occasional coffee is difficult, impossible for many. But it’s not hard

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THIS week, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, or ICC, applied for arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders, as well as Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister

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France losing grip on another colonial possession

Macron’s decision to send more troops to New Caledonia is a reflection of a serious breakdown of order in the island nation not seen since the 1980s, writes Mick Hall FEARS

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Women for peace

WHEN Peta Jones Pellach raves about what she describes as the ‘wonderful event’, you can’t help but feel you missed out on something. On October 4, 2023, well over a

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