Opinion

Impotence of Antony Blinken

With the US unable to compete in the EV market and desperate in Ukraine, the secretary of state traveled to China to talk at Beijing for his domestic audience, writes Patrick

Sermon for Gaza

Chris Hedges: IN THE conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, I encountered singular individuals of varying creeds, religions, races and

India’s billionaire wealth is on display as nation votes

Sonali Kolhatkar : THERE are several exercises in extremes playing out in India right now. Nearly a billion people are voting in elections that will last into early June, braving

Big bang: Israel’s path to self-destruction

Daniel Beaumont : IN STRIKING at the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1 Bibi Netanyahu has made himself an April Fool. Israel has been bombing Syria for years with

Fazlul Haq: champion of peasant cause

AS WE observe the death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Haq, we pay homage to the life and memory of a politician and activist who brought the peasant issue to

Landless Brazilians and Gaza

Vijay Prashad: THE mass food drive for Gaza was also a campaign to contest the growth of Christian Zionism in the country and deepen ties with the Palestinian struggle. Brazilian

Iran’s strategic patience is spent

Direct retaliatory strikes mark a new phase of the Islamic Republic’s conflict with Israel, writes As`ad AbuKhalil BY ALL accounts Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel was unprecedented. It wasn’t US ‘shock

Palestinians as ‘the Others’

Ralph Nader: THROUGHOUT history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of ‘the Others.’ The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit