How Brazil’s Trump is using WhatsApp to win election
October 30, 2018
Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, who openly longs for the return of military dictatorship, has gained in the election due to a swarm of fake
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The Enduring Fantasy of the Modernizing Autocrat
October 30, 2018
By Pankaj Mishra Mohammed bin Salman is the latest in a long line of “courageous modernizers” who turned out to be vicious dictators. Why do
The Saudi regime does not represent Islam
October 25, 2018
By Khaled A Beydoun On October 19, Saudi Arabia admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul, saying he died in brawl,
My grandfather Nelson Mandela fought apartheid. I see the parallels with Israel
October 12, 2018
It took an international effort to end institutionalised racism in my country – now it must happen again, for Palestinian people My grandfather, Nelson
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Brett Kavanaugh, and imperial feminism
October 9, 2018
By Azeezah Kanji The prospect of Judge Brett Kavanaugh being elevated to Supreme Court justice – without a thorough investigation of the multiple allegations
UN Expects More Upheavals as Trump’s Foreign Policy Runs Wild
September 21, 2018
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 19 2018 (IPS) – The unpredictable Donald Trump, described by some as a human wrecking ball, will be
Censored film names Adam Milstein as Canary Mission funder
September 14, 2018
By Asa Winstanley and Ali Abunimah Israel lobby financier Adam Milstein has been identified as the funder of Canary Mission, the anonymous website that aims to tarnish the reputations of
Unrepented sins: How the message of the Hajj is lost on Saudi Arabia
August 29, 2018
By Ghada Karmi The Saudi kings have betrayed the unique history and culture of the holy cities entrusted to their care As the week of
Five years on: How the UK sees opportunity and profit in Sisi’s repressive Egypt
August 16, 2018
By Mark Curtis The scale of its commercial interests makes Britain probably the leading apologist for Sisi’s regime Five years ago on 14 August,
Is India Creating Its Own Rohingya?
August 16, 2018
By Hartosh Singh Bal Echoes of the majoritarian rhetoric preceding the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya can be heard in India as four million, mostly