Like the country he leads, Joe Biden looked and sounded exhausted. The United States president was obliged, yet again, to ‘address’ the nation...
Late last year, a 104-page report – the important product of the collaboration of several Israeli human rights groups which took almost three...
Minutes before the US military fired on Ahmadi and his kids, surveillance video reportedly showed a child near where the missile struck.Lieutenant...
Even in death, Palestinians, it seems, have no respite from Israeli officials intent on stripping them of their dignity and humanity.The latest...
In 2015, the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung got hold of a huge cache of private financial records and shared it with the ICIJ. After a...
By now, they have been forgotten by everyone but the people who admired, cared for and loved them.Zemari Ahmadi – a father, brother and son –...
We know that since 2014 Israel has jailed, maimed and killed more Palestinians in Gaza and beyond, including during an 11-day murderous blitz in...
America has plunged off the precipice. The Bastille-like storming of the US Capitol by a cretinous mob of Donald Trump fanatics was the predictable...
We are told by the corporate media know-it-alls that the contest to become the Democratic nominee for president is now a two-man race.Never mind...
US cable news networks are addicted to war. War is their intoxicating elixir of choice. It has also become their raison d’etre. There are only two...
It was, in a subtle way, a defining moment. After a 15-day trek across the Atlantic Ocean, Thunberg looked exhausted. Still, the 16-year-old climate...
Recently, Canadian politicians have taken a rebar-hard, right-wing turn in pursuit of victory. This fact may come as unsettling news to scores of...
It’s over. While Democrats and the familiar clique of the centrist media types quibble like bickering patent lawyers about the fine print, the...
Countless people, in countless places, remember when South African policemen – turned willing executioners in service of a dying apartheid regime...
Fred Rogers was a kind, gentle man who loved children. The late host of the quiet, profound children’s television programme, Mister Rogers’...
In the cacophonous age of Donald Trump, Americans would do well to recall Isaac Newton’s Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and...
The latest spasm of ‘record-breaking’ violence occurred on a warm Sunday evening when a lone gunman, holed up in a Las Vegas hotel room...
Trump was vaulted into the White House with the zealous backing of 63 million Americans who either explicitly share, or have veiled sympathy for,...
Eventually, the truth reveals itself. And so it was after President Donald Trump – a still surreal phrase to put to paper – elected to...
One of the jobs of so-called intelligence officers is to collect and carefully consider the facts and to offer sound, sober advice, devoid of...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sweet, youthful, Willy Wonka façade is slipping to reveal that he’s just an old boy...
The world was watching and, no doubt, cringing. It would be easy to mock the four-day-long cavalcade of near lunacy that was the recently concluded...