Contrary to US government claims, WikiLeaks’ revelations actually saved lives — and drove demand for accountability from Washington, writes Marjorie Cohn AFTER a 14-year struggle, including five years spent in Belmarsh,
The economic life of the people will not change either immediately or even in the short term, except marginally through changes in the controlled price of some commodities, writes Jehan Perera
‘A BAD peace is better than a good war,’ so says a Russian proverb. ‘If the Turks speak of peace, prepare for war,’ so says a Greek proverb. So, what
WHEN you’re in Gaza and see the destruction firsthand, the clearest conclusion is that Israel’s stated goals are an epic lie, on a par with ‘a people without a land
Loyal communists and virulent anti-communists were often cut from the same cloth. They occasionally talked much the same talk, only from opposite sides of the barricades. The more the ex-reds
AS THE economy begins to matter more and more, Pakistan — the sixth-largest country in the world in terms of population — is in dire condition. With a debt-to-GDP ratio
BRITISH nationals are serving in some of Israel’s ‘craziest’ combat units in Gaza where they view Palestinian fighters as ‘rats’ and ‘animals’. The soldiers have pledged to ‘kill these sons
There is a significant denialism on climate change in places like the United States. And it angers me because I see people affected. I see animals affected. And this is
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