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Andrew MitrovicaAl Jazeera |
There is a renewed attempt in the US, Europe and beyond to minimise and sanitise the horrors of Nazism.
Relief. Gratitude. Acknowledge. Shame.
When the US president-elect threatens Greenland, Panama and my country, Canada, I don’t think he’s joking.
Watching Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announce that he was quitting on a chilly Monday morning in Ottawa, I was reminded of the moment...
This is the season of renewal. One year ends. Another begins. At the turn of the calendar, it is customary for columnists like me to make...
Pope Francis is a paradoxical figure. Despite leading a church with a long, egregious history of being synonymous with strife, injustice and abuse,...
Who knew that beyond being a homicidal dictator – is there any other kind – Bashar al-Assad also happens to be a comedian. The world’s most...
True to his cunning nature, the wanted bandit likely fled at night. Bashar al-Assad, reportedly with his wife and three adult children in tow, made...
As always, the conventional wisdom is wrong. In the aftermath of the jarring events that rattled South Korea earlier this week, the instant...
Papa Joe Biden is a blatant liar and the embodiment of a perverse lie that sustains America’s phantom democracy. Only the familiar stable of...
I don’t know about you, but, recently, I have enjoyed watching an entertaining spasm of populist-on-populist violence. Perhaps “violence” is...
You know America is circling the drain when a minor TV sitcom personality and D-list comedian-turned-podcast host is considered a formidable...
If a Pulitzer Prize was handed out for the (unintentionally) funniest, stitch-inducing headline drafted by a “major” news organisation in 2024,...
After they lose, retire, or get pushed out, politicians tend, it is said, to become preoccupied with their legacies. This cliché may be true since...
This is clear: Much of America has voted for a fascist. If that short, blunt opening offends your delicate sensibilities, then you, dear reader,...
The world, we are told, is on the eve of witnessing the most consequential US presidential election since witnessing the last most consequential US...
Greta Thunberg makes all the right enemies. Thunberg likely understood that from the moment the then-15- year-old Swedish schoolgirl embarked on...
You know it’s bound to be serious when one politician holds a news conference and orders two other politicians to stand slightly behind him like...
Kamal Tabaja and his two younger brothers and three sisters meet online every day to comfort one another. Together, they are grieving the sudden,...
You cannot negotiate a ceasefire, let alone peace, with a man who prefers to wage war. That is the conundrum facing a host of suddenly fretting...
By now, save her family and friends, the short life and dreadful death of 10-year-old Fatima Abdallah Jaafar will likely have been forgotten. But...