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Opinion

Legacy of Netanyahu’s ‘war on terror’

What happened on October 7 represents the collapse of an entire doctrine the Israeli leader has consistently promoted throughout his career, writes Hédi Attia THERE’S something familiar about Western reactions to

In the land of the hopeless

More than two years after the Taliban seized power, Afghans are battling psychological problems in response to the apparent hopelessness of the situation in their country, writes Emran Feroz ‘I FORGET

Reading, singing, dancing even in darkest times

IT IS nearly impossible to think of joy while Israel continues its genocidal violence against Palestinians and while the terrible war escalates in the eastern flank of the Democratic Republic

The real Gaza death toll

Ralph Nader says it matters greatly whether the aggregate toll so far, and counting, is three, four, five, six times more than the Gaza health ministry’s undercount SINCE the Hamas raid

7 March, the Day Bangladesh Was Conceived

7 March 1971 is a date that is indelibly etched in the hearts and minds of Bengalis worldwide with due pride and justification. And if not, it ought to be.

Is Tehran winning Middle East?

IN THE midst of Israel’s ongoing devastation of Gaza, one major piece of Middle Eastern news has yet to hit the headlines. In a face-off that, in a sense, has

The NY Times gets a guided tour

IF YOU have paid attention to what various polls and officials in the US and elsewhere in the West have been doing and saying about Ukraine lately, you know the

Defunding UNRWA makes US complicit in genocide

EARLIER this year, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza plausibly constitute genocide. The world’s most influential judicial body ordered Israel to stop killing civilians and

US and Israel as int’l outliers, outlaws, losers

IF YOU were a bookmaker taking bets on the position of the United States in the world today, you should take into consideration three recent events. The world’s post-World War

Assange appeals against extradition to US

THE British high court did not make it easy for the press to cover Julian Assange’s anti-extradition hearings in late February. For those of you who may have forgotten, Assange