Former US Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington in this May 21, 2009. —...
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington in this May 21, 2009. —...
On December 3, Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador who is also a Bitcoin influencer and the self-dubbed “coolest dictator in the world”,...
Over a period of two days just outside Beirut in September 1982, Israeli-backed Lebanese militiamen slaughtered up to 3,500 Palestinian refugees and...
On July 27, two top executives from prominent US gun companies – Marty Daniel of Daniel Defense and Christopher Killoy of Sturm, Ruger and Co –...
On the morning of Monday, July 4, as the United States was gearing up for its 246th annual celebration of independence from Britain, the National...
Every year on July 4, to much fanfare and revelry, the United States marks its 1776 independence from Britain.The date is also an official holiday...
The front cover of the 1982 American University of Beirut yearbook features a black and white sketch of a campus building, foregrounded by a dozen...
In his official remarks on the May 24 elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas – during which 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos killed 19...
Everyone has by now heard about the latest gaffe by former United States president and unconvicted war criminal George W Bush, father of the 2003 US...
While in Havana this past February, I made the acquaintance of a man in his mid-fifties, who hailed from the eastern Cuban province of Guantanamo...
Back in December 2020, the Independent reported that Chris Philp – the then UK parliamentary under secretary of state and minister for immigration...
Flying into Dallas Fort Worth International Airport from Mexico in December, I queued in the immigration line for US citizens and was taken aback...
The other day in Mexico, I fell into conversation with an older gentleman from Virginia who had recently lost a brother to cancer. Choking up as he...
In November of last year, The Washington Post reported that, nearly nine months after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States,...
Despite ostensibly distinguishing between refugees who are actually fleeing war and other allegedly less deserving categories of migrant, the League...
While the effective substitution of social media for life has certainly become normalised – and even more so courtesy of the coronavirus pandemic...
Some years ago, my estranged grandmother – a psychologically unstable resident of Florida and a devout believer in the right to bear arms –...
The US corporate media as a whole have been less than serious in their coverage of recent events in Cuba – to the extent that many outlets have...
