By Gordon Brown* – The Guardian In Afghanistan, girls are being banned from primary school. Other Muslim nations hold the key to restoring their rights This week, the Taliban made a bombshell announcement that they will ban women from attending university or teaching in…
By Binoy Kampmark* – Progressive International The ongoing efforts to extradite Julian Assange show just how far “liberal democracies” will go to punish those who dare reveal their secrets. In the United States and around the world, state actors are cracking down on journalists…
By David Faris* – Newsweek Former President Donald Trump could use a lot of referrals—to a tailor, for example, who could outfit him in clothes that are his size. But this week he got the referrals that he most deserved: to the Department of Justice, recommending his criminal…
By Azriel Bermant and Anita Tusor (*) – EUobserver Those who have long admired and supported Israel as a beacon of democracy in the Middle East should have good reason to rue the fact that Israel has succumbed to the malign influence of Orbanism Following Benjamin Netanyahu’s…
By Baher Kamal MADRID, Dec 2022 (IPS) – When tens of thousands of Europeans had to flee the horrors of two born-in-Europe devastating armed conflicts that attracted other powers: the World Wars I and II, they migrated to the Americas and other Western countries in search of safe…
By Nadia Batok* – Meer New powerful and deadliest warfare weapons n Ukraine that future is now. A completely new warfare.
By John Feffer* – TomDispatch Forget the Deplorables and Focus Instead on the Persuadables Arizona is ground zero for the wackiest theories and craziest political candidates. Exhibit A: Kari Lake, the Republican who ran for governor in the recent midterm elections.
By the Editorial Board – The Washington Post As the 2022 World Cup wraps up, there is an overarching takeaway: Holding it in Qatar was a huge mistake. FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, had numerous chances to take a stand for basic human dignities.
By Isaac Chotiner* – The New Yorker A mishmash of conspiracy theories and imperial nostalgia has found purchase with the country’s far-right factions. Last week, German Special Forces and police arrested twenty-five people across the country for plotting what authorities have…
Myanmar Now Website Myanmar Now asked American scholar Dr Zachary Abuza whether the BURMA Act can finally begin to provide the help that Myanmar’s people need New legislation passed by the US House of Representatives (US House) last week—known as the BURMA (Burma Unified through…
