Opinion

Palestine, Indonesia and the ‘human rights’ dilemma

Ramzy Baroud: WHEN I excitedly shared the news on social media that Indonesia had refused to host the Israeli team as part of the Under-20 World Cup, scheduled from May 20 to

Sheikh Hasina going to be Prime Minister for the fourth consecutive term

Major General A K Mohammad Ali Sikder PSC (Retd.): The globally famed news agency Bloomberg recently predicted in a report that Sheikh Hasina can become the Prime Minister of Bangladesh

The indictment, sleaze and Trump’s world

THE indictment of Donald Trump by a grand jury in New York has made headlines and front-page news. As it should have. He is the first president or former president

The new international economic order

by Malick Doucouré: THE New International Economic Order was a set of reforms introduced in the 1970s by African, Asian, and Latin American nations seeking to dismantle the economic vestiges

Reclaiming the United States

‘At what point does a beleaguered population living near or below the poverty line rise up in protest?’ Chris Hedges asks in his talks on April 4 at the Independent National Convention

The high cost of being wrong

ARGUMENTS around nuclear deterrence can become quickly convoluted. But the basic premise, according to those who advocate it, is that we are safer with nuclear weapons than without them. The

Lanka’s preoccupation with repression won’t work

Sri Lanka’s president Wickremesinghe has repeatedly held to the position that his priority is to revive the economy and not to hold elections. The government is aware that an avalanche

War crimes, theirs and ours

THIS March marked the 20th anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The war left at least 800,000 to 1.1 million Iraqis dead, and certainly many more injured,