Opinion

Musk’s Twitter is more dangerous than you think

Beyond Musk’s oft-repeated rants about free speech, may lie shadier plans to recoup the $44b he paid for the site, writes Adam Ramsay THE world is burning and Ukraine is trudging

Lula must save Brazil from savage capitalism

Vijay Prashad and Zoe Alexandra: JULIANA Cardoso is sitting in her office in front of a lavender, orange, and yellow mandala that was made for her. She has been a

Closer to confrontation?

Afsan Chowdhury: THE kind of effort that the Awami League is putting in trying to minimise the presence at BNP gatherings seems a bit odd given recent political records. Not

2022 US election: what to expect?

Habib Siddiqui: AMERICAN voters going to the polls on November 8 in what is called the mid-term election will see all the seats in the house of representatives and more

Freedom v oppression

Mirjam Schmidt: SINCE Qatar was announced as FIFA World Cup host back in 2010, the country has experienced an unexpected image boost. Yet the attention has not been exclusively positive.

Robert Hunziker: DATELINE: November 7–18, 2022, Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. Dignitaries from every country will be meeting to discuss climate change at COP27. Based upon early confirmations, 90 heads of state

US isolated on UN vote against Cuba blockade

Roger D Harris writes on the heaviness of imperialist sanctions and the lightness of the liberal’s lament FOR the 30th consecutive United Nations vote, the US again lost. A landslide margin

All at once mainstream pundits push for WW III

MAINSTREAM punditry in the latter half of 2022 is rife with op-eds arguing that the US needs to vastly increase military spending because a world war is about to erupt,