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Opinion

COP27 Egypt: Oh, well!

DATELINE: November 7–18, 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Dignitaries from every country will be meeting to discuss climate change at COP27. Based upon early confirmations, 90 heads of state will attend,

US isolated on UN vote against Cuba blockade

Roger D Harris writes on the heaviness of imperialist sanctions and the lightness of the liberal’s lament FOR the 30th consecutive United Nations vote, the US again lost. A landslide margin

All at once mainstream pundits push for WW III

MAINSTREAM punditry in the latter half of 2022 is rife with op-eds arguing that the US needs to vastly increase military spending because a world war is about to erupt,

An ‘iron curtain’ between rich and poor

Egypt’s military regime is tirelessly modernising roads, public transport and industry across the country and erecting a luxurious administrative capital for the upper class. But the construction boom is primarily

Sunak and Britain’s post-Brexit fairy tales

MUCH mirth is expressed over President Joe Biden mispronouncing the new prime minister’s name as ‘Rashee Sanook’. Many see this as showing how the merry-go-round of British leaders has confused

Stop worrying and love the bomb

I HAVE covered enough wars to know that once you open that Pandora’s Box, the many evils that pour out are beyond anyone’s control. War accelerates the whirlwind of industrial

Still hoping for democracy

THE streets of Khartoum were filled on October 25, 2021, as thousands of people joined in calls for ‘Democracy for Sudan’, ‘No power sharing with the military’ and ‘Military, return

Why Iran protests different from past demos

THE young people who took to the streets in 1979 as part of the Iranian revolution are now in their sixties. They haven’t quite aged out of politics, but they’re

Last thing Haiti needs is another military intervention

Waves of invasions have prevented the country from securing its sovereignty and have prevented its people from building dignified lives, writes Vijay Prashad AT THE United Nations General Assembly on September

Meloni’s tough assignment ahead

IS THE European Union on the verge of a tipping point at which it can no longer maintain its proud identity as a ‘liberal club,’ but a regional group in