THIS spring, Iran’s unprecedented direct military tit-for-tat escalation against its regional arch-foe Israel amid the ongoing Gaza war was accompanied by a deteriorating domestic landscape marked by higher repression and
ACCORDING to a 2022 report by Article 19, an international organisation that documents and champions freedom of expression, 80 per cent of the world’s population lives with less freedom of
Israel’s massacre on the tent camp in Rafah is just the latest. For decades now, Tel Aviv – like Washington – has defied any attempt to apply international humanitarian law
The world economy is experiencing a deep process of economic convergence, according to which regions that once lagged the west in industrialisation are now making up for lost time, writes
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HUMANITY came into being after most ecosystem services had been in operation. The land feeds, clothes and shelters us. It sustains our economies, lives and livelihoods. About 99 per cent
WE NEED to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they
I SUPPOSE my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war essays about World
Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold? — John Milton, Paradise Lost PEOPLE were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel
HOW close are we to being in the movie? Leila and I went to the Baghdad Theatre, down the road from our apartment in Portland, Oregon, to see the new