Opinion

US war against Yemen heats up

Slowly the US war on Yemen is turning into a quagmire for Pax Americana which can only respond in the language it knows best, brute force, writes Thomas C Mountain THE

Sarah Ihmoud: THE testimonies emerging from Palestinians held captive by the Israeli military in Al-Shifa hospital, which was under persistent siege for 14 days, are harrowing: torture, starvation, executions, the

The revenge to come

Thousands of Palestinians — and other Arabs — will be planning violent acts of revenge over Gaza. How far will Arab governments go in shielding US and Israeli interests from

Conundrum of Lanka elections and IMF programme

Jehan Perera: TRACING history and going back to the colonial era, Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe has said that despite the adverse impact of world wars and internal conflicts, the

Paralleling grassroot memories with historiography

M Rashiduzzaman: THIS narrative swirls between the mainstream historiography of the 1947 Bengal Partition and the reminiscences of the grassroots Hindu-Muslim encounters on the eve of that epoch-making split. The

Gaza war sparks tensions

The Berlin International Film Festival is no stranger to politics. The Middle East conflict was bound to cause debates and protests this year, writes Elizabeth Grenier THE Berlinale is renowned as

Palestine’s struggle for self-rule

by Humayun Kabir: THE world is consumed, pained, and angered by Israel’s uninterrupted bombing and killing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank with an open genocidal intent that

US complicity in Israel’s ‘plausible’ genocide

Daniel Warner: ‘HONOURING our alliances does not mean facilitating mass killing,’ Representative Ocasio-Cortez said on the floor of the House of Representatives on March 22. ‘We cannot hide from our