Editorial – The Guardian The regime intensifies repression and suffering while failing to address the country’s urgent humanitarian needs Two decades ago, photographs of blue burqas became perhaps the totemic image of life under the Taliban, as Afghan women’s rights were invoked…
Sachs* – Project SyndicateVladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has degenerated into a savage war of attrition that each side believes it will win, but which in reality both sides will lose. Ukraine should intensify the search for a negotiated peace of the kind that…
By Evelyn Leopold* – Globetrotter, Independent Media Institute The death of a legend who outwitted Nazis in wartime Berlin Inge Deutschkron, Holocaust survivor, author, and lecturer, was a force of nature. She died at the age of 99 on March 9, 2022, and was buried on April…
By Duncan Campbell* – The Guardian A decision from the home secretary is imminent. Extradition would set a disastrous precedent Priti Patel now has to make one of the most important decisions of her career: will she bow to heavy pressure from the United States and send a…
By Shamil Shams, Shabnam von Hein – Deutsche Welle (DW) The Taliban have further curbed women’s rights with their latest veil compulsion decree. Afghanistan’s civil society faces an uphill task to challenge the group without adequate support from the international…
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* – MEER Information warfare on European soil Information war: the aim is to prolong the war for as long as it serves the interests of those who promote it The North Atlantic media axis is currently engaged in an unprecedented information war. During…
By Kelly Petillo* – European Council on Foreign Relations If Turkey and other countries begin deporting more Syrians back to Syria, Europe could experience a new wave of arrivals. European policymakers need to devise a more sustainable, longer-term approach to the issue.
By Nick Corbishley – Naked Capitalism Two of Latin America’s most respected dignitaries say the unspeakable about the conflict in Ukraine, setting blood to boil in Western corridors of power. TIME magazine’s interview of the former, and quite possibly…
Fernando Reyes Matta* Both the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world with its effects on flows of health equipment and on economic and social developments, as well as the tendencies to create security blocs and economic protectionism and, more recently, the war in…
Todd Miller* – TomDispatch / Truthout First, it was the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicles speeding along on the road in front of our campsite. Then it was the Border Patrol’s all-terrain vehicles moving swiftly on a ridge above us.
