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Opinion

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

Modi opponents labelled ‘anti-national’

Aggressive propaganda is increasingly distorting public debate in India. Government agencies tolerate and sometimes even promote prime minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu chauvinism. Those daring to criticise the government face intimidation,

Decolonising bookshelf isn’t getting rid of Jane Austen

THE headline in the Daily Telegraph was stark: ‘Jane Austen dropped from university’s English course to “decolonise the curriculum”’. The story was quickly picked up elsewhere. Austen had been ‘cancelled’

France stuck in extreme centre

After years of neoliberalism, French politics that venture outside the conformist centre’s unshakable loyalty to the Atlantic Alliance are now dangerously ‘extreme’, writes Diana Johnstone ON APRIL 24, Emmanuel Macron was

Who is the hero? Albright v Assange

Lawrence Davidson checks on the answer, from inside and outside the establishment OUR image of a hero has two aspects. The first consists of generic, stereotypical traits: bravery, determination in the