Opinion

An ‘iron curtain’ between rich and poor

Egypt’s military regime is tirelessly modernising roads, public transport and industry across the country and erecting a luxurious administrative capital for the upper class. But the construction boom is primarily

Sunak and Britain’s post-Brexit fairy tales

Patrick Cockburn: MUCH mirth is expressed over President Joe Biden mispronouncing the new prime minister’s name as ‘Rashee Sanook’. Many see this as showing how the merry-go-round of British leaders

Stop worrying and love the bomb

Chris Hedges: I HAVE covered enough wars to know that once you open that Pandora’s Box, the many evils that pour out are beyond anyone’s control. War accelerates the whirlwind

Still hoping for democracy

THE streets of Khartoum were filled on October 25, 2021, as thousands of people joined in calls for ‘Democracy for Sudan’, ‘No power sharing with the military’ and ‘Military, return

Why Iran protests different from past demos

John Feffer: THE young people who took to the streets in 1979 as part of the Iranian revolution are now in their sixties. They haven’t quite aged out of politics,

Last thing Haiti needs is another military intervention

by Vijay Prashad: Waves of invasions have prevented the country from securing its sovereignty and have prevented its people from building dignified lives, writes Vijay Prashad AT THE United Nations General

Meloni’s tough assignment ahead

Imran Khalid: IS THE European Union on the verge of a tipping point at which it can no longer maintain its proud identity as a ‘liberal club,’ but a regional

Lanka divergence grows between appearance, reality

FOR a country that experienced four months of mass protests that not only captured the attention of the world, but also led to the resignations of the president, prime minister