Opinion

Global crackdown on freedom of expression

Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon and Steve Macek : ACCORDING to a 2022 report by Article 19, an international organisation that documents and champions freedom of expression, 80 per cent of

The no-rules international order

by Vijay Prashad : Israel’s massacre on the tent camp in Rafah is just the latest. For decades now, Tel Aviv – like Washington – has defied any attempt to

Perils and promise of emerging multipolar world

Shawdesh Desk: The world economy is experiencing a deep process of economic convergence, according to which regions that once lagged the west in industrialisation are now making up for lost

Lanka economic recovery needs no referendum

Jehan Perera : GOVERNMENT leaders appear to be considering all options for remaining in office beyond the constitutionally mandated periods of five years for the presidency and parliament. The United

Land, legacy and the future

HUMANITY came into being after most ecosystem services had been in operation. The land feeds, clothes and shelters us. It sustains our economies, lives and livelihoods. About 99 per cent

The military-industrial complex is killing us all

WE NEED to talk about what bombs do in war. Bombs shred flesh. Bombs shatter bones. Bombs dismember. Bombs cause brains, lungs, and other organs to shake so violently they

If the wars go on

Edward Curtin : I SUPPOSE my title could have been couched in the singular form, as Hermann Hesse, the Nobel prize winning German/Swiss author, did with his collection of anti-war

Burning of Rafah’s tent people

Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold? — John Milton, Paradise Lost PEOPLE were saying their evening prayers when the IDF attacked the refuge camp at Tel