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More ‘Moditva’

THE impressive logistics of India’s nat­io­nal elections inspire considerable internati­onal coverage. This year, the process initiated last...

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Iran hits back

FOR the first two weeks of this month, the Western media’s main focus was on how Iran might react to an egregious Israeli provocation. On the first...

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No joy in Gaza

THE targeted slaughter last week of seven employees of World Central Kitchen (WCK) kicked off an international reaction that would not have occurred...

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Beyond Bhutto

THE morning of April 4, 1979, lingers in the memory. I woke up to get ready for school, and found my mother red-eyed. Even before she uttered a word,...

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Distant solidarity

IT took almost six months for the UN Security Council to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, after the US decided against kiboshing yet another...

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Russian roulette

A THUMPING majority for Vladimir Putin in his fifth bid for the Russian presidency was a foregone conclusion, even though its size surprised even...

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Blighted Britain

THE notion that Britain’s royal family represents the superglue that keeps the kingdom united is a gross exaggeration, but the House of Windsor can...

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Berlin’s blind spot

ABOUT 10 days ago, a joint Palestinian-Israeli creative endeavour titled No Other Land, chronicling the struggle for survival in Masafer Yatta —...

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Hawks in charge

LAST Sunday, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old senior airman in the US Air Force, set up a video stream and, outside the Israeli embassy in Washington,...

28.02.2024 100

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Parallel travesties

AT the time of writing, almost five days after the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was reported to have suddenly died in an Arctic penal...

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Quo vadis?

THE initial reaction was shock as independents affiliated with the PTI emerged as the dominant force in the next parliament. It was, after all, widely...

14.02.2024 90

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Darkness at Noon?

RECENT events have made it exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, to take tomorrow’s election seriously. It’s not just the rat-a-tat sentencing...

07.02.2024 60

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Israel über alles

ONCE the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague endorsed the substance of South Africa’s case against Israel (albeit not in its entirety)...

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Genocidal collusion

WHETHER he’s trying to crack a joke or pretending to be serious, Joe Biden’s octogenarian visage is permanently contorted into a grimace. That may...

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Lenin’s legacy

AN intriguing triptych included in Iqbal’s second volume of verse, Baal-i-Jibreel, envisages Vladimir Lenin in the presence of God, explaining why...

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One of a kind

ACROSS almost six decades of investigative journalism, John Pilger unsparingly torchlit many of what George W. Bush described as “the darkest...

10.01.2024 60

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Election year

AROUND 40 countries representing almost half the world’s population will either elect new rulers or endorse existing ones in the year ahead. This...

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Obliterating Gaza

IT took several days of diplomatic negotiations for the Security Council to come up with a sufficiently bland Gaza resolution that the US would not...

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Weasel words

IT took 28 years of UN-sponsored climate conferences for one of them to even acknowledge the primary source of the planet’s woes. That was enough...

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A people’s poet

“WE live in a world where they say we communicate more, but the world stayed silent when slave trade was making money/ The world stayed silent when...

13.12.2023 100

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Deadly diplomacy

NO one who lived anywhere in the world through the 1970s could ignore Henry Kissinger as he bestrode the world like a colossus, not so much as the...

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Scary monsters

WHO would have thought that Geert Wilders, one of the longest sitting members of the Dutch parliament, would one day be in a pole position to aspire...

29.11.2023 90

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Phantom choices

THERE is a degree of irony — or déjà vu — in recent reports that putative US presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr is losing some support...

22.11.2023 60

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If not now, when?

AMID all the horrors on show as a consequence of Israel’s explicit determination to pulverise the Gaza Strip, nothing is quite as soul-searing as...

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Reheated soufflé?

I WAS sufficiently intrigued by the preliminary hype to stay up late one night last week for a chance to listen to the latest, and supposedly last,...

08.11.2023 50

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Island in the sun

BY 1983, it had been eight years since US troops had finally departed from Indochina. Much to the consternation of some in the...

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Past is prelude

SOMEONE encountering the Middle East conflict for the first time in the current pages of the Western media could be excused for assuming that...

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The dispossessed

LAST Saturday, a majority of Australian voters decided to disallow the descendants of their continent’s original inhabitants constitutional...

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Distant echoes

ISRAEL prides itself, not unreasonably, on its intelligence-gathering capabilities. This applies internationally, with Israeli apps offering the go-to...

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Open-ended conflict

EARLY last month, Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg offered an extraordinary revelation at a meeting with European parliamentary committees....

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Age-old dilemmas

IT seems likely at this juncture that the next presidential contest in the United States will once more pit Joe Biden against Donald Trump. Biden will...

27.09.2023 90

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Chinese whispers

TO paraphrase Oscar Wilde, to lose one recently appointed senior cabinet minister could be construed as a misfortune; losing two seems like...

20.09.2023 100

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Silencing a songbird

JUST a few days after the elected president of Chile, his close friend and comrade Salvador Allende, had met a violent death in his workplace, the man...

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