Opinion

Thu, 23 Jan 2025, 12:10 am

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Opinion

New iron curtain

The Ukraine crisis proves to be Europe’s crucible and Europe proves a profound disappointment, writes Patrick Lawrence WE HAVE read a great deal about a new cold war since the United

Israeli execution of Al Jazeera reporter

SHIREEN Abu Akleh, the Al Jazeera reporter with more than two decades of experience covering armed conflicts, knew the protocol. She and other reporters remained last Wednesday in the open,

Afghan women protest at new Taliban burqa decree

Women’s rights activists march in Kabul against the new face-covering order, despite threats and risks of imprisonment from the Taliban, writes Deepa Parent ‘YOU are all loose women for protesting against

Shot to send message to Palestinians

During 20 years of reporting on Israel and Palestine, I learnt first-hand that Israel’s version of events around the deaths of Palestinians or foreigners can never be trusted, writes Jonathan Cook

If the US wanted peace in Ukraine

AS WE hydroplane toward the brink of nuclear armageddon while Bono and the Edge play U2 songs in Kiev, it’s probably worth taking a moment to highlight how this war

Paris gets kicked out of French Africa

More residents of the ‘dark continent’ states are choosing to throw off the shackles of modern French neo-colonialism and the breakdown of the Mali defence agreement with Paris, in force

World drought gets worse, cities ration

THE planet is wheezing, coughing and sputtering because of vicious attacks by worldwide droughts aided and abetted by global warming at only 1.2C above baseline. Some major metropolises are rationing

Why Erdogan in a rush for peace with Saudi Arabia?

THE Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Saudi Arabia on April 28 on an official visit which is already called symbolic for Ankara and Riyadh. As reported by Turkish

Day of Portuguese language and Marx

ON THE most recent May 5, the world day of the Portuguese language and the day of Karl Marx’s birth occurred. So I am left with this difficult impasse: between

The persecution of Julian Assange

THE British home secretary, Priti Patel, will decide this month whether Julian Assange is to be extradited to the United States, where he faces a sentence of up to 175