Opinion

Museums with guilt complexes

by Shady Lewis Botros: To celebrate the bicentenary of the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, the British Museum is running an exhibition entitled ‘Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt’ until February 2023,

Perils of pious neoliberalism

Amid extreme wealth inequality, Vijay Prashad considers the appeal of reactionary new religious traditions that measure salvation in the present balance of your bank account. THE International Labour Organisation’s ‘Global Wage Report

Lessons learnt in internet’s darkest corners

Tech executives love to talk about the value of ‘connection’ and their goals of ‘connecting’ the world. Almost two decades into the social media era, we should know better than

The economic realities we face at the end of 2022

ECONOMIES around the world were shocked and damaged over the course of 2022. Global capitalism had been brewing conflicts among the major powers (the United States, China, and the EU)

On justice for Kashmir

Richard Falk: AMONG the self-determination struggles of our time, Kashmir is at risk of being forgotten by most of the world (except for Pakistan), while its people continue to endure

Biden kills resolution to end Yemen war

Shawdesh Desk: SENATOR Bernie Sanders has withdrawn his bill to end US support for the Saudi war on Yemen following reports that the Biden administration was working to tank the

Resolving liquidity crunch in our financial sector

Mizanur Rahman: Liquidity crunch has been one of the myriad issues our banks and financial institutions have been facing for a while. The emerging problem is fundamentally economic, but the

Afghanistan war mustn’t be forgot

Shawdesh Desk: WHEN the Pentagon used NATO to provoke Russia into invading Ukraine, it had to know that one of the great benefits to such an invasion would be that