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Andrew Mitrovica

Andrew Mitrovica

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On genocide, Trump will be no different from Biden

If a Pulitzer Prize was handed out for the (unintentionally) funniest, stitch-inducing headline drafted by a “major” news organisation in 2024,...

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Biden can still save what remains of Gaza, and his sorry legacy

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...

11.11.2024 100

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Enlightened Americans must now rise up and resist

This is clear: Much of America has voted for a fascist. If that short, blunt opening offends your delicate sensibilities, then you, dear reader, best...

06.11.2024 100

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No, US voters, you don’t need to choose between Harris and Trump

The world, we are told, is on the eve of witnessing the most consequential US presidential election since witnessing the last most consequential US...

29.10.2024 30

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Greta Thunberg – still making all the right enemies

Greta Thunberg makes all the right enemies. Thunberg likely understood that from the moment the then-15- year-old Swedish schoolgirl embarked on her...

23.10.2024 100

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Justin Trudeau is a nauseating hypocrite

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...

18.10.2024 20

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Canada’s shame

Kamal Tabaja and his two younger brothers and three sisters meet online every day to comfort one another. Together, they are grieving the sudden,...

08.10.2024 40

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The peace appeals of Israel’s Western enablers are a cynical charade

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...

28.09.2024 40

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The ‘brilliant’ way Israel kills innocents

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 the...

25.09.2024 100

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Is­rael’s mes­sage: ‘Don’t feed the Pales­tini­ans’

The invading Israeli army ought to have erected signs throughout Gaza that read: “Don’t feed the Palestinians: Punishable by death.” Here’s...

07.04.2024 100

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Delu­sions at the Unit­ed Na­tions

We have now entered the comforting world of delusions. Earlier this week, 14 members of the United Nations Security Council agreed on a resolution...

31.03.2024 200

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The Cana­di­an arms em­bar­go on Is­rael that was not

Alex Cosh is an editor with the status-quo-allergic independent Canadian news upstart, The Maple. Cosh is a young reporter with an old-style...

24.03.2024 60

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Play in Is­rael, just don’t pre­tend you didn’t know

Since October 7, scores of writers have authored scores of columns pleading – to no avail – with prominent politicians who wield transformative...

16.03.2024 80

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Is­rael’s killing rage

Another day, another outrage. That is the inevitable lot of Palestinians in the grim, dystopian wasteland that is Gaza. It is inevitable because it...

01.03.2024 200

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Blame Joe Biden for Pres­i­dent Trump come No­vem­ber

It is over. I wrote a column a few months ago expressing the sincere hope that Joe Biden would lose the upcoming presidential election. Now, I can...

29.02.2024 100

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In Gaza, hope is a fan­ta­sy

I wanted to be wrong, but it turns out that I was right. Since early October, I have been sure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had...

12.02.2024 80

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Robin­son, Pelosi and the sham of West­ern pro­gres­sive pol­i­tics

Politicians love to talk. It’s a big part of the job. You talk in legislatures. You talk at committees. You talk to voters. You talk to reporters....

05.02.2024 30

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The ICJ rul­ing was a le­gal vic­to­ry at the cost of Pales­tin­ian lives

I need to preface this column with the following proviso: Given the scale of the cruel circumstances, my reading of the much-anticipated preliminary...

28.01.2024 60

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Piz­za, Gaza and an Is­raeli-made famine

It’s not often that a columnist is obliged to make reference to pizza in the midst of a rogue-nation-made famine. But the times and decency demand...

23.01.2024 20

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This past week, we all be­came South Africans

Inevitably, contempt breeds disgust. Anyone with a scintilla of awareness and sympathy for the horrors that Palestinians have endured for generations...

15.01.2024 60

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Biden is no dif­fer­ent than Trump

Joe Biden is a lie and a liar. That opening sentence is meant to sting. More importantly, it is meant to shatter the happy caricature that the sitting...

09.01.2024 70

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I don’t care who wins the US pres­i­den­tial elec­tion

It was a choreographed scene starring the US president and First Lady that was meant to convey the restorative spirit of the festive season. Last...

31.12.2023 30

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Justin Trudeau’s be­lat­ed and shame­ful volte face on Gaza

Some of Israel’s most prominent enablers now claim to abhor the scope of Israel’s wanton killing of Palestinians with a barrage of bullets, bombs,...

20.12.2023 20

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Biden, Kir­by and dead, un­grate­ful Pales­tini­ans

More than two years after his death, the odious spirit of Donald Rumsfeld has been resurrected. It is not surprising. Every US administration has its...

14.12.2023 80

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Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy: The for­got­ten man

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a forgotten man fighting a forgotten war. The Ukrainian president’s shooting star has lost much of its altitude and gleam as...

07.12.2023 20

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