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Andrew Mitrovica

  • May 30, 2022

    After the shooting

    Like the country he leads, Joe Biden looked and sounded exhausted. The United States president was obliged, yet again, to ‘address’ the nation...

  • November 25, 2021

    Israeli violence

    Late last year, a 104-page report – the important product of the collaboration of several Israeli human rights groups which took almost three...

  • November 11, 2021

    Murderous mistakes

    Minutes before the US military fired on Ahmadi and his kids, surveillance video reportedly showed a child near where the missile struck.Lieutenant...

  • November 03, 2021

    Death without dignity

    Even in death, Palestinians, it seems, have no respite from Israeli officials intent on stripping them of their dignity and humanity.The latest...

  • October 22, 2021

    Rampant inequality

    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...

  • October 01, 2021

    Lethal lies

    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 –...

  • July 24, 2021

    Guilty as charged

    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...

  • January 08, 2021

    Anarchy on display

    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...

  • March 13, 2020

    The primary race

    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...

  • January 11, 2020

    Addicted to war

    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...

  • September 06, 2019

    Who’s afraid of Greta?

    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...

  • April 27, 2019

    Canada goes right

    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...

  • March 28, 2019

    A gift for Trump

    It’s over. While Democrats and the familiar clique of the centrist media types quibble like bickering patent lawyers about the fine print, the...

  • April 04, 2018

    Soweto revisited

    Countless people, in countless places, remember when South African policemen – turned willing executioners in service of a dying apartheid regime...

  • March 29, 2018

    The coalition of compassion

    Fred Rogers was a kind, gentle man who loved children. The late host of the quiet, profound children’s television programme, Mister Rogers’...

  • December 29, 2017

    Age of Trump

    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...

  • October 05, 2017

    Nightmare in Vegas

    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...

  • May 02, 2017

    100 days of Trump

    Trump was vaulted into the White House with the zealous backing of 63 million Americans who either explicitly share, or have veiled sympathy for,...

  • April 21, 2017

    Trump and bombs

    Eventually, the truth reveals itself. And so it was after President Donald Trump – a still surreal phrase to put to paper – elected to...

  • March 26, 2017

    Secrets in the age of technology

    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...

  • October 26, 2016

    Canada’s Willie Wonka

    Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sweet, youthful, Willy Wonka façade is slipping to reveal that he’s just an old boy...

  • August 02, 2016

    Welcome to the Trump show

    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...