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Andrew MitrovicaAl Jazeera |
Sure, al-Assads did live in ‘quiet luxury’ amid hungry masses, but so do enlightened leaders of ‘liberal democracies’.
The fraudulent masks of Bashar al-Assad and his ‘desert rose’ wife Asma are finally off.
Authoritarianism is still very much in vogue, in Washington and Seoul alike.
Papa Joe Biden is a blatant liar and the embodiment of a perverse lie that sustains America’s phantom democracy. Only the familiar stable of wind-up...
I don’t know about you, but, recently, I have enjoyed watching an entertaining spasm of populist-on-populist violence. Perhaps “violence” is too...
You know America is circling the drain when a minor TV sitcom personality and D-list comedian-turned-podcast host is considered a formidable political...
If a Pulitzer Prize was handed out for the (unintentionally) funniest, stitch-inducing headline drafted by a “major” news organisation in 2024,...
After they lose, retire, or get pushed out, politicians tend, it is said, to become preoccupied with their legacies. This cliché may be true since...
This is clear: Much of America has voted for a fascist. If that short, blunt opening offends your delicate sensibilities, then you, dear reader, best...
The world, we are told, is on the eve of witnessing the most consequential US presidential election since witnessing the last most consequential US...
Greta Thunberg makes all the right enemies. Thunberg likely understood that from the moment the then-15- year-old Swedish schoolgirl embarked on her...
You know it’s bound to be serious when one politician holds a news conference and orders two other politicians to stand slightly behind him like...
Kamal Tabaja and his two younger brothers and three sisters meet online every day to comfort one another. Together, they are grieving the sudden,...
You cannot negotiate a ceasefire, let alone peace, with a man who prefers to wage war. That is the conundrum facing a host of suddenly fretting...
By now, save her family and friends, the short life and dreadful death of 10-year-old Fatima Abdallah Jaafar will likely have been forgotten. But the...
The invading Israeli army ought to have erected signs throughout Gaza that read: “Don’t feed the Palestinians: Punishable by death.” Here’s...
We have now entered the comforting world of delusions. Earlier this week, 14 members of the United Nations Security Council agreed on a resolution...
Alex Cosh is an editor with the status-quo-allergic independent Canadian news upstart, The Maple. Cosh is a young reporter with an old-style...
Since October 7, scores of writers have authored scores of columns pleading – to no avail – with prominent politicians who wield transformative...
Another day, another outrage. That is the inevitable lot of Palestinians in the grim, dystopian wasteland that is Gaza. It is inevitable because it...
It is over. I wrote a column a few months ago expressing the sincere hope that Joe Biden would lose the upcoming presidential election. Now, I can...
I wanted to be wrong, but it turns out that I was right. Since early October, I have been sure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had...
Politicians love to talk. It’s a big part of the job. You talk in legislatures. You talk at committees. You talk to voters. You talk to reporters....
I need to preface this column with the following proviso: Given the scale of the cruel circumstances, my reading of the much-anticipated preliminary...
It’s not often that a columnist is obliged to make reference to pizza in the midst of a rogue-nation-made famine. But the times and decency demand...
Inevitably, contempt breeds disgust. Anyone with a scintilla of awareness and sympathy for the horrors that Palestinians have endured for generations...
Joe Biden is a lie and a liar. That opening sentence is meant to sting. More importantly, it is meant to shatter the happy caricature that the sitting...
It was a choreographed scene starring the US president and First Lady that was meant to convey the restorative spirit of the festive season. Last...
Some of Israel’s most prominent enablers now claim to abhor the scope of Israel’s wanton killing of Palestinians with a barrage of bullets, bombs,...
More than two years after his death, the odious spirit of Donald Rumsfeld has been resurrected. It is not surprising. Every US administration has its...
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a forgotten man fighting a forgotten war. The Ukrainian president’s shooting star has lost much of its altitude and gleam as...