Superman’s new job at ICE is the perfect American plot twist | Cinema
Last week, actor Dean Cain, known for portraying Superman in the 1990s TV show Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, announced that he…
Why is India so scared of my book on Kashmir that it has banned it? | Human Rights
On August 5, 2019, the Indian government stripped the erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir state of its special status under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution,…
Israel is occupying Gaza to clean up the crime scene | Israel-Palestine conflict
If you read the Western press this morning, you may come to believe that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s desire to take military control over…
THE POWELL ANNOUNCEMENT : General’s O.C. Kin Support Decision : Reaction: Sister and niece concede stress had been building. Opinions among Nixon Library crowd are sharply divided.
Lisa Berns, the niece of retired Gen. Colin L. Powell, passed by a newsstand in Los Angeles over the weekend and found herself reacting with…
Wildfires are inevitable, but we can learn to control them | Climate Crisis
We are midway through summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and we are witnessing another severe wildfire season. In May, wildfires were burning throughout Russia’s Far…
Israel’s starvation denial is an Orwellian farce | Israel-Palestine conflict
For more than 21 months, much of the international media danced around the truth about Israel’s war on Gaza. The old newsroom cliche – “if…
How RFK Jr’s vaccine funding cuts fit with Trump’s vision | Donald Trump News
United States Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced that the US is to cut funding for mRNA vaccine development –…
Trump and the global rise of fascist anti-psychiatry | Mental Health
Despite spending more on psychiatric services and prescribing psychiatric medications at a higher rate than almost any other nation, mental health in the United States…
Who counts in America? Trump wants to decide | Donald Trump
Do undocumented immigrants count as people?Anyone watching as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents increasingly bypass due process to detain and deport unauthorised immigrants might…
Decolonising knowledge: A call to reclaim Islam’s intellectual legacy | Religion
Over the last century, both Muslim and non-Muslim thinkers have centred their reformist discussions on decolonisation. The sheer volume of books, articles, and seminars on…
Accepted but trapped: Why won’t the UK evacuate its students from Gaza? | Gaza
In September 2025, I am supposed to start a new life, not in war-torn Gaza, but in a lecture hall in the United Kingdom. After…
Respecting the human right to sleep? Dream on | Health
When I was a freshman at Columbia University in 1999, the professor of my Literature Humanities course shared some personal information with my class, which was that…
Palestinians won’t tolerate war profiteering in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
On July 17, I was in a market in Nuseirat camp in central Gaza looking for any affordable food item to buy when I saw…
The real reason the West is warmongering against China | International Trade
Over the past two decades, the posture of the United States towards China has evolved from economic cooperation to outright antagonism. US media outlets and…
I may starve to death before I am able to graduate in Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict
On July 27, the Palestinian Ministry of Education released the results of the secondary education certificate exams, also known as tawjihi. Like every year, families…
Forced back from Iran, Afghans face drought, poverty and repression | Refugees
At the transit camp in Islam Qala in western Afghanistan, Fatima steps out of the bus into the blazing heat and an uncertain future. She…
Axing of The Late Show reveals how monopolisation has gutted US media | Donald Trump
CBS’ recent cancellation of the popular The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is yet another case of heavy‑handed political and corporate meddling in the role…
The UK is slipping into racist dystopia | Racism
It has been a year since the Southport attack, which triggered furious racist riots in the streets of the United Kingdom. Unruly crowds, galvanised by…
Now that countries have capitulated on tariffs, Trump will be back for more | Trade War
Governments have been falling over one another to offer concessions to United States President Donald Trump as his August 1 tariff deadline looms. On Sunday,…
Kenya’s protests are not a symptom of failed democracy. They are democracy | Politics
In Kenya, as in many countries across the world, street protests are often framed as the unfortunate result of political failure. As the logic goes,…