The ending point of other politicians is the beginning of Sheikh Hasina. Many politicians are bogged down with the issues of today but she plans about tomorrow. Other people see
‘TO DEFEND civilisation, defeat Russia.’ Writing in the unfailingly bellicose Atlantic, an American academic of my acquaintance recently issued that dramatic call to arms. And lest there be any confusion
Prologue ECOLOGY in America barely exists. Business as usual capitalism is so entrenched, it acts like a religion. It has its hierarchies of billionaires, and armies of economists and political
WHEN Southcom commander Laura Richardson starts talking about sending weapons to Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, you know something’s up. That something is ‘money’ and ‘new markets’ for United States arms
A DISASTER response expert has implored the United States to lift its economic sanctions against Syria, warning that the restrictions are hampering rescue and relief operations in the earthquake-ravaged country.
Liz Theoharis wirtes on a world fragmented by inequality A FEW weeks ago, the world’s power brokers — politicians, CEOs, millionaires, billionaires — met in Davos, the mountainous Swiss resort town,
ISRAEL calls its latest military campaign Operation Break the Wave, a lyrical description of a brutal reality. This year, 2023, will be the 75th year after the Nakba, the catastrophe
If we follow Marx that ‘material force must be overthrown by material force’, we can anticipate that though ‘refolutions’ create informal democratic spaces, they may not result in fundamental political
NEARLY a year in, the war in Ukraine has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and brought the world to the brink of, in president Joe Biden’s own words, ‘Armageddon.’
FORMER US defence secretary Bob Gates wrote in his memoir, Duty, that Joe Biden has been ‘wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past