By Carlo Aldrovandi* – The Conversation The recent violence at the al-Aqsa mosque/Temple Mount area and in the Old City of Jerusalem has spiralled into something bigger and more dangerous. Clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinian protesters at the… Continue Reading
By Amy Goodman* – Democracy Now! Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded after Israeli forces raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the second time in four days, with reports showing police fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades and tear gas at Palestinian… Continue Reading
By Alf Gunvald Nilsen* – Boston Review Narendra Modi’s government has used lockdown to force further neoliberalization and continue its assault on pro-democracy activists. “From midnight tonight onwards, the entire country, please listen carefully, the entire country shall go under… Continue Reading
By Jacob Goldberg in Bangkok, a Guardian reporter in Yangon, and agencies About 3,000 estimated to have crossed over after junta attacks areas mostly populated by Karen people military has driven thousands of people across the country’s border with Thailand,… Continue Reading
By Felice Noelle Rodriguez and Jomo Kwame Sundaram(*) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Mar 16 2021 (IPS) – Globalisation’s beginnings are symbolised by Ferdinand Magellan’s near circumnavigation of the world half a millennium ago. But its history is not simply of connection… Continue Reading
Viewpoint by Ramesh Jaura* – IDN-InDepthNews BERLIN | TOKYO (IDN) — Like the United Nations, the global community-based Buddhist organisation Soka Gakkai International (SGI) is a beacon of hope to a world shrouded by dark clouds of unprecedented crises. An… Continue Reading
By Phillip Orchard – Geopolitical Futures There are huge risks to abandoning the country’s previous political arrangement. For Myanmar, a country where the military brass has called the shots for most of its modern history, the putsch shouldn’t have come… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post Myanmar’s fragile, flawed democracy has collapsed. In the early hours Monday, the country’s military initiated a coup, arresting civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other politicians, including ministers from her National League… Continue Reading
Editorial – The Guardian With no roadmap for peace, Israel risks being compared to the old South Africa It was a deliberate provocation by B’Tselem, Israel’s largest human rights group, to describe the Palestinians in the Holy Land as living… Continue Reading
By Christine Romo, Cynthia McFadden and Rich Schapiro (*) – NBC News The new characters, Noor Yasmin and Aziz, are part of an effort to boost early education for children inside the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh. COX’S BAZAR,… Continue Reading
By Boyan Stanislavski* – Barricade The recent ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal in Poland is the latest episode in the 30-year long war on women in that country. It is disgusting and enraging but it is a part of a… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor* – The Washington Post Centuries ago, Christendom was accustomed to the periodic existence of “antipopes.” They were clerics who, whether through spiritual conviction or political machinations, challenged the designated pontiff with rival claims to the top seat in the… Continue Reading
The Economist The president is back after being hospitalised with the virus. But the pandemic may weaken the Republicans’ push to confirm Amy Coney Barrett PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP returned to the White House in triumphant mood on the evening of… Continue Reading
By Dino Lencioni* The new edition of this book is entitled The Jerusalem Helix. Imagine an Atheist, a Catholic, a Protestant, a Muslim, a Jew, a Hindu, and a Buddhist who are all part of the same book club. They… Continue Reading
By Roberto Savio* – Other News The creation of a Palestinian State remains a pipe-dream After the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI, The League of Nations mandated that Britain administer Palestine. The London administration was… Continue Reading
Opinion by Paul Waldman – The Washington Post As Republicans hold a convention that portrays President Trump as all but a living god, one of his most important supporters from the religious right is experiencing a precipitous fall from grace.… Continue Reading
By Ishaan Tharoor, with Ruby Mellen* – The Washington Post A hundred years ago, French, British and Italian officials convened in a famous porcelain factory southwest of Paris to carve up the Ottoman Empire. The Treaty of Sèvres, signed Aug.… Continue Reading
By Sam Bahour* – The Guardian It won’t halt Israel’s annexation plans, but it would be a vital step in the right direction at a perilous moment Israel’s annexation of the West Bank will be yet another tragedy for Palestinians… Continue Reading
By Alastair Crooke* – The Strategic Culture Foundation It was always a paradox: John Stuart Mill, in his seminal (1859), On Liberty, never doubted that a universal civilisation, grounded in liberal values, was the eventual destination of all of humankind. He… Continue Reading
By Sarah C Anderson and Sunita Viswanath (*) – Opinion, in Al Jazeera Only strong pressure from the US can stop the Indian government from further eroding religious freedom in the country. On June 10, US Secretary of State Mike… Continue Reading
