OPINION by Michael Stephens – The alleged use of chemical weapons, including mustard gas, by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fits in with a pattern of increasing small-scale tactical usages of chemical weapons in both Syria and Iraq. Despite the furore following the use of chemical[…]
OPINION by James Denselow – In the shadow of the terrible air strikes that rained down on a marketplace in the Damascus suburb of Douma earlier this week killing and maiming hundreds, came another death on Tuesday that added to Syria’s death toll of a quarter of a million. Khaled[…]
OPINION by Mandeep Tiwana/Cathal Gilbert – Since August 16, 2012, South Africans have been coming to terms with the police killing of 34 striking mineworkers at the Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana. This biggest massacre by police of civilians in post-apartheid South Africa continues to haunt the collective conscience of[…]
OPINION by Damianna Pearson – I was one of the biggest Islamophobes on the planet. Why? Well, I was born and raised in America. When 9/11 happened, I was 23…. and I had never heard of Islam or even the word Muslim. I was terrified of what happened, and became[…]
OPINION by Hamid Dabashi – United States President Barack Obama’s speech about the Iran nuclear deal at American University on August 5 marks a decisive feature in his Obama Doctrine that one might venture to call and consider “de-Zionising the American empire”. Does this speech, and a whole array of[…]
OPINION by Firoz Osman – Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, blames ‘renegade’ Jewish settlers for the gruesome murder of Palestinian infant, Ali Saad Dawabsheh. Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority, in cahoots with Israeli security to protect the very Settlers responsible for the murder, shrewdly deflected culpability filing a complaint[…]
OPINION by Geoffrey Aronson – President Barack Obama’s speech at American University in Washington DC on August 6 marks a historic turning point in the US relationship with Israel. The setting was deliberately chosen to associate the president’s achievement in winning a nuclear deal with Iran with a similar call[…]
OPINION by Nabila Ismail – The Democratic Alliance (DA) controlled Cape Town City Council must be reminded that Freedom of Expression in our country is protected by our constitution. Furthermore, any attempt to re-introduce an Apartheid /oppressive style regime in our country will be vehemently opposed by all South Africans.[…]
On this fateful day, 70 years ago, the first of the only two atomic bombs ever used was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, with a second catastrophic detonation wreaked on Nagasaki on August 9th , killing over 220,000 people by the end of 1945, with many tens of thousands[…]
OPINION by Sharif Nashashibi – The Israeli government has shed crocodile tears over Friday’s killing by settlers of Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsheh. Much media attention was given to Israeli officials’ description of the attack as terrorism, which must be fought “regardless of which side it comes from”. That is[…]
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