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Mahir Ali

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Wild, wild west

Can any power now kidnap a head of state?

07.01.2026 100

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Scrappy new year?

There are no guarantees of goodwill or peace.

31.12.2025 60

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Going, going, gone

Has Latin America’s pink tide receded beyond a point of no return?

24.12.2025 30

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Bondi bloodbath

The crime in Australia must not serve as a distraction.

17.12.2025 60

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Go fly a kite

The answers we need might be blowing in the wind.

10.12.2025 70

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Haunted states

Spain isn’t alone in grappling with its ghosts.

03.12.2025 60

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Multilateral woes

Do global institutions mean anything anymore?

26.11.2025 100

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BBC vs King Con

The broadcaster is defensible, unlike Trump.

19.11.2025 50

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More Zo, please

There’s a beacon of hope in New York.

12.11.2025 70

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Another genocide

Sudan’s nightmare seems endless.

05.11.2025 100

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Gunboat hypocrisy

Peacemaker Trump doubles as warmonger.

29.10.2025 70

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Lest we regret

The country remains devoted to its ‘first love’.

22.10.2025 100

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Nobel aspirations

The recipient is hardly worthier than Trump.

15.10.2025 60

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Deal or no deal?

Trump’s ‘peace plan’ doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

08.10.2025 100

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A poet’s odyssey

Tony Harrison was a towering literary presence.

01.10.2025 50

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UN: struggling at 80

The UN’s Palestinian failure looms large.

24.09.2025 100

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Brazil’s unusual 9/11

‘Tropical Trump’ got his comeuppance.

17.09.2025 100

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What’s it good for?

Trump’s predilection for war is alarming.

10.09.2025 80

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Chinese checkers

China knows how to play the long game.

03.09.2025 90

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Killing time

Canberra just might be focused on placating Israel.

27.08.2025 100

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Land for peace?

Save Ukraine, but don’t stop there.

20.08.2025 100

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Marking time

Pakistan’s journey has been troubled since the 1950s.

13.08.2025 70

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Hiroshima horrors

We can’t live with nuclear weapons.

06.08.2025 90

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Enabling genocide

Verbal objections mean next to nothing.

30.07.2025 70

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MAGA meltdown

Trump can’t help complicating his travails.

23.07.2025 60

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Shut up & bear it

Few Israelis seem to be bothered about the daily toll in Gaza.

16.07.2025 60

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The past is prelude

Indira’s Emergency was a warning for India.

09.07.2025 90

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Strangling hope

From UK to US, that might not work.

02.07.2025 100

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A fraught peace

The US is accustomed to open-ended wars.

25.06.2025 70

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Tehran under fire

Nothing positive can emerge from Israeli belligerence.

18.06.2025 100

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Marching orders

Disaster stretches from Gaza to LA.

11.06.2025 50

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Junker mentality

Europe’s war plans portend a disaster.

04.06.2025 90

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Deadly distractions

The US almost certainly could halt Netanyahu’s genocidal campaign at a stroke.

28.05.2025 50

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One of a kind

There are lessons to be learned from a Uruguayan guerrilla.

21.05.2025 100

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War? No way!

Trump’s offer to mediate is charming but unlikely to yield dividends.

14.05.2025 100

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Put peace first

There is no such thing as a great war.

07.05.2025 80

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Ghosts of Vietnam

And let’s not forget Bandung 1955.

30.04.2025 80

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A progressive pope?

Francis leaves behind a complicated legacy.

23.04.2025 100

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Chinese burn

Is the US still a paper tiger to Beijing?

16.04.2025 80

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Trumpian delusion

There’s worse to come, with little resistance.

09.04.2025 100

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Baloch imbroglio

The state’s follies match those of its adversaries.

26.03.2025 100

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Duterte in the dock

It’s a rare win for the ICC in unusual circumstances.

19.03.2025 40

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Palestine’s erasure

When will the Zionists face a Nuremberg?

12.03.2025 100

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What next?

Western illiberalism trumps liberalism.

05.03.2025 90

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Achtung baby

Germany once more boosts the European far right.

26.02.2025 40

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Martyr’s memorial

Malcolm X was outlived by his monumental legacy.

19.02.2025 50

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Media misfires

Trump’s crimes so far don’t stretch to Afghanistan.

12.02.2025 70

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Flood alert

Trump’s tariffs on hold as tantrums carry on.

05.02.2025 100

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Genocidal intent

‘Never again’ remains an aspiration 80 years after Auschwitz.

29.01.2025 70

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Donald 2.0

This character is now chief executive of the most powerful nation, accompanied by equally immoral underlings.

22.01.2025 90

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