Opinion

BY:Severina Ware The gratuitous fixation on rioting won’t kill the elephant in the room. In recent years, the world has seen far too many hashtags recorded into history to represent the Black people who lost their lives at the hands of law enforcement. Even with the insurmountable list as a …

Using damage to property as cover, US police have meted out shocking, indiscriminate brutality in the wake of the uprising The word “violence” is going to be used a lot to describe the events in US cities over the weekend and all this week. So it’s going to be important …

Expect unprecedented spending as President Trump and Joe Biden kickstart their campaigns. It will be to no great effect, though, as opinions on both are set in stone. The cost of the 2020 presidential campaign had already outpaced the total cost of the 2016 presidential campaign by nearly $20 million …

Enormous doses of stimulus spending are offering relief from coronavirus damage but their lifelong legacy of debt could seed future crises by hobbling economic growth and worsening poverty, especially in developing countries. Central banks and governments worldwide have unleashed at least $15 trillion of stimulus via bond-buying and budget spending …

If rumors about a coup in Qatar this week turn out to be true, who could benefit from it and what would the possible consequences for the region be? Social media users may have seen recent footage of an alleged attempted coup d’etat in Qatar – footage rife with shooting …

Taking down the fossil fuel industry requires taking on the institutions that finance it. Even during a pandemic, this movement is gaining steam 1970 was a simpler time. (February was a simpler time too, but for a moment let’s think outside the pandemic bubble.) Simpler because our environmental troubles could …

A plague is raging and the president is leaving the heartlands and blue-collar voters exposed. This could be the endgame On Sunday, initially, at least, there was no White House briefing on the president’s public schedule. But the bad news kept coming. Coronavirus deaths continued to climb and reports of …

By Robert Inlakesh Robert Inlakesh is a journalist, writer and political analyst, who has lived in and reported from the occupied Palestinian West Bank. He has written for publications such as Mint Press, Mondoweiss, MEMO, and various other outlets. He specializes in analysis of the Middle East, in particular Palestine-Israel. …

Racism, religious fanaticism, and inequality are the three underlying themes defining the US and Israeli elections and shaping the long-term futures of the two countries. The incumbents, US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are at the same time byproducts and drivers of deepening ideological, religious and …

US arrogance towards the Palestinians will backfire, big. The Trump administration has finally lifted the curtains on the final act of its Middle East diplomacy by revealing the long-awaited, ahem, “peace plan” in a surrealistic White House celebration. I will admit from the outset that I cannot write about it …

Despite its magnitude, lack of access to antibiotics is a largely overlooked public health issue. 5.7 million people, including 1 million children, are dying annually from antibiotic-treatable conditions because they cannot access the necessary antibiotics in time. When I worked as a front-line doctor in South Sudan, I saw firsthand …

On Iran and the Middle East, the Trump administration is following Israel’s playbook. Supporters of Donald Trump think of the US president as an exceptional one-of-a-kind force of nature – a sui generis leader. His detractors like to compare him to Russian President Vladimir Putin or describe him as a …

Keeping a vegan diet has become easier, with new plant-based foods hitting the market every week. But most vegetables aren’t even vegan, and for those who want to live purely, it’s time to don the loincloth and forage. Seasonal vegetables are available year-round in supermarkets, all manner of plant-based milk …

This single piece of technology has obliterated the promise of the internet and corrupted human interaction. In the long lost year of 2011, I managed to graduate college without owning a smartphone. Even then, four years after the birth of the iPhone, I was not yet an unreasonable outlier. All …

Facebook claims its data collection is inherent to the way the internet works. The internet didn’t have to be this way It’s a quintessential experience of the digital age: you’re scrolling through Facebook or reading an article online, and suddenly get served with an advertisement so narrowly targeted to a …

In almost any other year it would be hailed as a public health victory: The smoking rate among U.S. high schoolers took its biggest hit ever this year, federal figures show, falling to a new low. Instead, the milestone was relegated to a lone figure at the bottom of a …

Trudeau’s blackface scandal cannot be muffled with weak apologies and ‘blind-spot’ excuses. Apparently, Justin Trudeau has no shame. If Canada’s prime minister had even a sense, let alone a mature understanding of the word, he would have resigned after his past racist acts were revealed. But maturity is not a …

Vladimir Lenin is said to have opined that the only thing certain about British elections is who is going to lose. He meant the British working class, at a time when they were effectively unrepresented in the political system. Equally, whatever the outcome of the Israeli elections, the Palestinians will …

Kashmir is under siege. Up to 10,000 people have been victims of enforced disappearance, including my son Javaid The Eid this year was like no other. We could not even offer the obligatory sacrifice because of the total siege by India of Kashmir. When my son Yasir went to fetch …

Gazing down with a vaguely orange tint at a new fire blossoming on the Earth where a fire should not be, the Moon confided that it felt sad and powerless watching the Earth destroy itself. “At first it was small things. Losing a species here or there. Just careless, really. …