Opinion

A country struggling to find its place

Tensions with the west and ambitions to become a regional peacekeeping power have brought Turkey’s grand strategy into focus. Will distancing itself from western values and ideas of democracy end

Sri Lanka: late but still not too late

Sri Lanka’s president needs to forge a multi-partisan consensus with the opposition political parties and civil society to ensure good governance in the country. It is late in the time

Ukraine’s search for war funding hits budgets

Ukraine’s local authorities are resisting attempts to tap their reserves despite government assurances of support, writes Yurii Gaidai UKRAINE is preparing to roll out its second wartime budget. Faced with an

How IMF continues to shrink poorer nations

FROM October 9 to 15, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held their annual joint meeting in Marrakech (Morocco). The last time that these two Bretton Woods institutions

Lessons from Gaza we don’t want to learn

Afsan Chowdhury: MANY parts of the world minus the western and anti-Arab world are in uproar over the Gaza conflict. For Muslims of the world, it is something greater than

How big media facilitate Israeli war crimes in Gaza

Corporate media’s dehumanisation of Palestinians, lack of historical context, and repeating hearsay as fact make the current tragedy unintelligible to Americans, writes Robin Andersen ON OCTOBER 6, 2023, Hamas broke out

Another unintended consequence of sanctions

by Eve Ottenberg: PEOPLE usually migrate en masse to escape war, famine, despotism or poverty. They migrate from Central and South America to the United States mostly, these days, because

Israel’s Gaza assault provides ground for Hamas

Paul Rogers: More than 3,000 Palestinians have been killed in the first 11 days of the fifth war in Gaza since 2008, according to the Palestinian health authorities. Well over