By Clarence Lusane* – TomDispatch The Coming Crisis of 2025 If he becomes the official nominee of the Republican Party in next year’s presidential race, Donald Trump will receive tens of millions of votes in the general election. He may get less than the presumptive Democratic…
By Ishaan Tharoor with Sammy Westfall – The Washington Post Amid close to three weeks punishing Israeli airstrikes, a bleak practice has emerged in Gaza. Some parents in the embattled, besieged territory are scrawling the names of their children on the limbs of the little ones.
By Magdalena Kirchner* AMMAN, Jordan, Oct 26 2023 (IPS) – For the first time since the beginning of a war that claimed the lives of over 220,000 people, a senior Houthi delegation travelled from Yemen to Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh in mid-September. The timing of…
By Gideon Levy* – Haaretz, Israel And darkness was upon the face of the deep. Upon the face of the abyss of the massacre in the south, darkness is taking hold of Israel.
By David Rothkopf* – Haaretz, Israel Of all the mistakes made by Netanyahu before Hamas’ despicable assault, from attacking Israeli democracy to personal corruption, from embracing Putin to promoting extremists, his strategy of shunting the Palestinians aside has been a…
By Pedro Tadeu, columnist of the Diario de Noticias, Lisbon Many of the readers of this text have already read the news: the Israeli Foreign Minister asked the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, “what world do you live in?” and the country’s ambassador to the United Nations…
By Mujtaba Rahman* – POLITICO The outlook for Europe is only going to get tougher — not only because of events unfolding in the Middle East but also the prospect of a second Donald Trump presidency. The feverish pitch of international diplomacy since the terrorist attacks…
By Daniele Albertazzi* – The Conversation A year ago many pundits feared that Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s government would turn out to be a radical one. This was not just because of her party’s roots in the extreme right but also because she came to office…
By Shanto Kairy* – Modern Diplomacy It is very hard to say when the Rohingyas may go back to their home they left years ago. The Rohingya influx in Bangladesh from Myanmar is not very new.
By Adam Shatz* – London Review of Books On 16 October , Sabrina Tavernise, the host of the New York Times podcast The Daily, spoke to two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. ‘So, Abdallah,’ Tavernise said to Abdallah Hasaneen, a resident of Rafah, near the…
