Opinion

Plutocrats suffer vertigo on capitalism roller-coaster

Patrick Bond: THE World Economic Forum is meeting in Davos this week. The gathering of many of the wealthiest corporate elites and state leaders compels consideration of directions global capitalist

Walking back the Russian troll scare

RESEARCH conducted by New York University’s Centre for Social Media and Politics into Russian trolling behaviour on Twitter in the lead-up to the 2016 United States presidential election has found

How many Ukrainians will return home?

by John P Ruehl: RUSSIA’S February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has created the largest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. While millions of Ukrainian refugees have since returned

Turkey: century-old democracy with ups, downs

by Burak Ünveren: Turkey will mark the centenary of the proclamation of the Turkish republic in October. But 2023 will be an important year in another respect too: Turks will

A coalition to stay in power isn’t what Lanka needs

by Jehan Perera: WATER skiers ride the waves. The bigger the wave the higher they go. Those who try to duck away go under the wave. It seemed that president

Free speech, academic freedom in US corporate univs

by David Schultz: FREE speech and academic freedom are under attack in American higher education. From the right the allegation is that wokeness and political correctness have taken over, articulating

Will the weather eventually provoke radical action on climate?

by Paul Rogers: WITH two world summits on the global environment at the end of last year — COP27 and COP15 — there should have been the prospect of an

More than just sports icons

In different ways, there was something endearing about Pelé and Ali. Pelé’s charm was obvious. Ali’s charm was harder to explain, but there was never any doubt about his magnetism,