Opinion

Wed, 27 Nov 2024, 12:36 pm

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Univs must remain places of dialogue

In Germany, showing empathy for victims of political violence in Israel while drawing attention to the sufferings of Gazan and West Bank Palestinians, who bear the brunt of any major

US military projection intensifies

UPON assuming the US presidency, Joe Biden asserted in his first major foreign policy address, ‘America is back.’ For Latin America and the Caribbean, this has meant an ‘aggressive expansion’

Plan to shrink civic space continues apace

Governing without a people’s mandate may be empowering to those who are making the decisions, but those at the receiving end are likely to revolt in the longer term, writes Jehan

Poll verdict slams cancel culture

PAKISTAN’S voters have reprimanded anti-democratic power centres for seeking to ‘cancel’ political opponents. Voters ensured that Imran Khan’s popularity increased in inverse proportion to the reported repression he and his

Asia’s military armoury is on the rise

IN EARLY December, Rob Phillips, spokesman for the US Army Pacific Command, announced Washington’s intention to begin deploying Tomahawk missiles with a range of about 2,700 kilometres, capable of carrying

A tale of contradiction and division

Faced with the worst-ever Israeli-Palestinian violence, Europe’s selective moralism has also led to strategic blindness, writes Martin Konecny SINCE the Hamas attacks on 7 October and the start of Israel’s retaliatory

The manipulated past

THERE is a saying from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, ‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ Actually, that is not just a fictional

Headed for watershed years?

HISTORICALLY, Canada and the United States have enjoyed a unique relationship. It is more of a partnership that is forged by shared geography, nearly similar values, common interests, and, above

Social media, congress and child safety

IT WAS a struggle to see how a child’s welfare was relevant in the latest, shrill debates about technology taking place on The Hill. The Senate Judiciary Committee and the

Gaza war and red cows of prophecy

How an arcane Old Testament legend and Rapture-ready Texas evangelicals may have helped set the table for Hamas’s October 7 attacks, writes Christopher Lord HAMAS plotted the Al-Aqsa Flood operation in