Opinion

Univs must remain places of dialogue

by Jannis Julien Grimm: In Germany, showing empathy for victims of political violence in Israel while drawing attention to the sufferings of Gazan and West Bank Palestinians, who bear the

US military projection intensifies

Roger D Harris: UPON assuming the US presidency, Joe Biden asserted in his first major foreign policy address, ‘America is back.’ For Latin America and the Caribbean, this has meant

Plan to shrink civic space continues apace

Governing without a people’s mandate may be empowering to those who are making the decisions, but those at the receiving end are likely to revolt in the longer term, writes Jehan

Poll verdict slams cancel culture

by Jawed Naqvi: PAKISTAN’S voters have reprimanded anti-democratic power centres for seeking to ‘cancel’ political opponents. Voters ensured that Imran Khan’s popularity increased in inverse proportion to the reported repression

Asia’s military armoury is on the rise

Nguyen Kien Van: IN EARLY December, Rob Phillips, spokesman for the US Army Pacific Command, announced Washington’s intention to begin deploying Tomahawk missiles with a range of about 2,700 kilometres,

A tale of contradiction and division

Faced with the worst-ever Israeli-Palestinian violence, Europe’s selective moralism has also led to strategic blindness, writes Martin Konecny SINCE the Hamas attacks on 7 October and the start of Israel’s retaliatory

The manipulated past

Lawrence Davidson: THERE is a saying from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, ‘Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’ Actually, that is not just

Headed for watershed years?

Humayun Kabir: HISTORICALLY, Canada and the United States have enjoyed a unique relationship. It is more of a partnership that is forged by shared geography, nearly similar values, common interests,