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President Road Rage. Beyond being a gangster and, of course, a preening fascist – I mean, is there any other kind? (see Benito Mussolini, et al) –...
America has always needed heroes. Rarely are the heroes real. Not to worry. America will imagine them. Instantly. For a lot of Americans, it’s...
To renege on a promise to help children who need help is a lasting stain on anyone’s name and character – whatever their appellation or station....
This is what Liz Cheney, the Republican vice chair of the January 6 Congressional committee, said happened that day: As his shock troops stormed the...
Doctors call it “compassion fatigue”. It can be the inevitable cost of devoting a career to caring for patients, of tending to their pain –...
Turns out, tough Texans in Stetsons aren’t so tough. The excuses offered by police in Uvalde to excuse their cowardice only confirm their cowardice....
Like the country he leads, Joe Biden looked and sounded exhausted. The United States president was obliged, yet again, to “address” the nation in...
Israel has lied from the instant that Shireen Abu Akleh was assassinated 11 days ago. How do we know? Israel’s story about what happened on the...
Face down. In a ditch. That is how and where Shireen Abu Akleh’s life ended. Face down. In a ditch. She should be alive. At work with her colleagues...
Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered. She was not “killed”. She was murdered. She was shot in the face. Not in the arm or a leg. In the face. That is...
I am so tired of the United States of America. Perhaps you are tired of America, too. You may be an American who has – like many of us outside of...
A confession: I used to do Twitter, but I don’t do Twitter anymore. I didn’t want to do Twitter. Ever. I have lived a full and, for the most part,...
Apparently, the people and the government of France need to be reminded of their duty and obligations. Here are the dishonourable facts that sadly...
One of the advantages of writing for a news organisation with the breadth and influence of Al Jazeera is that important people with important jobs...
I have to interrupt your regularly scheduled stuff to issue this dire warning: You, me and the rest of the world are whistling into the abyss. The...
Canada is a big country with a small imagination – politically speaking. A lot of Canadian politicians and pundits prefer it that way since...
The word “statesman” needs to be retired. Long before Vladimir Putin’s murderous invasion of Ukraine, the honorific had lost its meaning. Putin...
As another war engulfs Europe, it was left to a squash player to remind the world of a few awkward truths. After winning a tournament in England late...
There can no longer be any doubt about this egregious fact: too many Western journalists sent to Ukraine to report on another disfiguring war believe...
If it was not plain before, Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine and Ukrainians has revealed these self-evident truths. Columnists who, like me, flit,...
As hope dies, hypocrisy lives. That equation, of sorts, came to mind as I watched with a depressing mixture of grief, sadness and dread Russia’s...
It is time. Someone needs finally to deliver last rites to the spent Olympic Games. The Pope, I think, enjoys the requisite stature and gravitas to do...
This too shall pass – eventually. And once the latest expression of consequence-free, far-right-mob entitlement recedes into the rear view, there...
The job of columnists is to convey their ideas in writing. Sometimes, these ideas are shared by readers. Others, are not. It does not matter,...
Omar Abdulmajeed Asaad was the inconvenient Palestinian. Like so many other Palestinians, Asaad was, in effect, killed by Israeli soldiers because...
Oh, oh, the keyboard cavalry is back. Nothing gets a bunch of mostly white, male establishment-hugging pundits – you know, dear reader, who they...
This column was borne of a conundrum. Let me explain. Editors everywhere like anniversaries. So, I was asked last week to write a piece about...
With rare exceptions, speeches, like opinion columns, are ephemeral: they may or may not be potent enough to attract attention for more than a...
We should be grateful for such small mercies. In a rare moment of lucidity, Donald Trump has abandoned plans to take part in what would have...
I should be dead. Since the start of this stubborn, life-sapping pandemic, I have, perhaps like you, taken precautions to ward off being infected...
At a time when a stubborn virus has made much of life impossible, the people of Barbados have reminded us that we can still dance to the possible....
The anxiety over Donald Trump’s possible re-election as president hovers like the prospect of a recurring bout of near-fatal cancer. Of course,...
Nostalgia is the enemy of art since it inevitably tips into sentimentality. The Beatles understood this. Their art – the hard, enigmatic quest for...
Cruelty, when considered in the abstract, can lose its potency. What I mean by this is that watching how and why cruelty is exacted on innocents...
It is a rare thing that Israel is forced to admit that it has broken the law and has to pay for it. We and, of course, the Palestinians well know...
“Surprise: Top US soldier clears US soldiers of murder” That should have been the headline attached to any story written about the “findings”...
Even in death, Palestinians, it seems, have no respite from Israeli officials intent on stripping them of their dignity and humanity. The latest...