December 4, 2017

Stop the state visit. Britain should not allow the US president’s racism to be dressed up in pageantry All relationships have boundaries. Those between nations can be particularly fraught, freighted with ties forged in history and culture. In diplomacy the manners, customs and morals of others need to be acknowledged and respected. But humanity begins […]

Western states have long laboured under an illusion that they have evolved beyond wars of religion. The Crusades and The Thirty Years War are bloody chapters of history, not dimensions of contemporary foreign policy. Even detractors of the United States’ imperialism and its borderless war on terror consider the wars to be about nationalism, not

President Donald Trump is once again promoting anti-Muslim propaganda. On Wednesday, the president retweeted a series of overtly Islamophobic videos shared by British far-right activist Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader for the anti-Muslim group Britain First. The videos purportedly show Muslims committing violent crimes ― but, like many things on social media, they are misleading. One video, captioned