THE deep divisions in the US left over the Ukraine war can be reduced to a single practical question: Do you support sending weapons to Ukraine? The answer to that
Any reconciliation between Turkey and Syria’s Assad regime would have disastrous consequences for many Syrians, writes Syria expert Kristin Helberg TURKISH president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has described his upcoming meeting with
THE Sri Lanka government’s proposal to set up a truth and reconciliation mechanism to deal with the unresolved human rights issues of the war will get a boost in the
THE World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos this week. The gathering of many of the wealthiest corporate elites and state leaders compels consideration of directions global capitalist chaos may
RESEARCH conducted by New York University’s Centre for Social Media and Politics into Russian trolling behaviour on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 United States presidential election has found
RUSSIA’S February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has created the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. While millions of Ukrainian refugees have since returned home, almost 2.9 million
Turkey will mark the centenary of the proclamation of the Turkish republic in October. But 2023 will be an important year in another respect too: Turks will go to the
WATER skiers ride the waves. The bigger the wave the higher they go. Those who try to duck away go under the wave. It seemed that president Ranil Wickremesinghe would
FREE speech and academic freedom are under attack in American higher education. From the right the allegation is that wokeness and political correctness have taken over, articulating a political agenda
WITH two world summits on the global environment at the end of last year — COP27 and COP15 — there should have been the prospect of an immediate impact on