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I am not ready to speak about Shireen in the past tense. Not today. Perhaps not ever. Shireen has covered the cruelty of the Israeli occupation for...
The war in Ukraine, like all wars, was born of sin – a terrible sin that has so far led to the death of thousands, the destruction of entire cities...
Democracy has become a game of Russian roulette. Once considered a routine exercise of peoples’ sovereign right, free elections have now become a...
The French have done it again. Despite having been utterly scandalised by the result of their own vote in the 2017 presidential elections, they have...
The far right in Europe has long been infatuated with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, with its leaders calling him “a true patriot” and...
On Sunday, foreign ministers of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt joined their American and Israeli counterparts for a...
I took a look at the 2022 World Happiness Report during the weekend, hoping to take a break from the misery of wars from Ukraine to Yemen. I found...
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine entered its fourth week, there were murmurs about a possible understanding between the two sides over the...
The Global South is divided over who bears the responsibility for the Ukraine tragedy in the Global North. Many blame Russia for its imperial...
Vladimir Putin will have you know that he did not want this war; that it was imposed on him. He did the impossible to avoid invading his beloved...
“In terms of a Cold War… you have the vast majority of the rest of the world in total opposition to what [Putin] is doing… It’s going to...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has started in a blitzkrieg with incalculable ramifications for the two countries and the world. As Russia bombs its...
After months of military build-up and weeks of intensive diplomacy, the crisis in Ukraine is at a critical juncture. It may turn toward a military...
Last week, the London-based Amnesty International joined the New York-based Human Rights Watch and the Jerusalem-based B’Tselem in calling...
As US President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda “build back better” faces major challenges in Congress, he seems to have taken his schema to the...
The much-anticipated war in Ukraine may have not started, but it has already achieved most of its objectives. Which begs the question: why persist...
After a strong start that included rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and World Health Organization, both of which Trump abandoned, President...
There are probably nicer ways to say it, but when I read that in a 2021 national poll, 46 percent of Americans believed that “another civil war...
I was hunkered down with fiction and history books early in the pandemic, when I stumbled on The Churchill Factor, an entertaining tale of...
There is much to lament, much to loathe and more to dread in these difficult and uncertain times. And yet, given the choice between fear and...
Last month, as I followed the much-anticipated Chinese Communist Party’s 100-year anniversary conference and the elevation of the Chinese leader,...
Over the past 10 years, American and European reactions to the Arab Spring have demonstrated why Western democracies cannot be trusted with the...