Opinion

What’s behind talk of possible plea deal for Assange?

Top US officials are speaking at cross purposes when it comes to Julian Assange. What is really going on? Joe Lauria writes IT WAS a little more than perplexing. US secretary

More than meets the eye

THERE were several military coups in West Africa lately. Mostly in former French colonies, and in many ways ‘neo-colonies’ of France, that do arguably more harm to the Sahel countries

Solution caught in trilateral geopolitics

by Md Zillur Rahaman: SINCE August 25, 2017, the Myanmar army began a large-scale violence against the Rohingyas in Rakhine State. Rohingya victims said that mobs joined the crackdown of

Mega risks threaten earth

Robert Hunziker: THE Council for the Human Future, which is a dedicated group of intelligent well-informed people, has identified ten Mega Risks to Earth. As it happens, all ten risks

India: a reluctant BRICS traveller

MK Bhadrakumar says that BRICS is transforming into the most representative community in the world, with an expanding membership that interacts while bypassing western pressure INDIA became a beacon of hope

Headed towards internet censorship

Abdullah Jbour: IN JULY, the Jordanian government sparked a wave of controversy when it proposed a so-called cybercrime law, adopted by the parliament later that month with only minor revisions

Humanity imperilled

Noam Chomsky: WHAT is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an

Theft at British Museum

Binoy Kampmark: WHAT happens when the looters are looted? Perhaps that strange sense of satisfaction called justice, an offence cancelled by another. One therefore greets the realisation that the British