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The triumph of folly

WHEN good men and women can’t speak the truth, when facts are inconvenient, when integrity and character no longer matter, when ego and...

30.11.2024 100

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Transnational organised crime

THE 12th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organised Crime (UNTOC) was held in Vienna on Oct 14-18,...

26.10.2024 100

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Power of the powerless

IT was a near miss. The ruling coalition, with an arguably fake mandate, was on the verge of destroying the Constitution by demolishing the last hope...

27.09.2024 200

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Quest for justice

THERE comes a time in the life of nations when citizens start to feel that the social contract between them and the state is on the verge of collapse....

24.08.2024 200

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Bellicose democracy

A FEW recent developments provide some examples of how the deep state systematically encroaches upon the citizens’ constitutional freedoms and...

28.07.2024 200

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The despotic state

WHAT is a core human value? It’s freedom, says Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the economist who, in his book The Road to Freedom, pleads for an...

27.06.2024 200

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Moment of truth

“ALL authoritarian regimes encounter resistance to their rule in one form or another, and all respond with a mixture of repression and...

26.05.2024 100

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Clashing realities

HOW to restrain a powerful, overweening and tyrannical state is the key challenge we face today. The institutions of restraint on executive excesses...

28.04.2024 60

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The winds of change

SILENCE is complicity, said the Philippines Nobel laureate journalist Maria Ressa in her 2022 memoir How to Stand Up to a Dictator. Our biggest...

07.03.2024 100

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Dark days for democracy

THESE are difficult, frightening times. In the words of Martha Beck (The Way of Integrity, 2021), “A value system built on avarice, ambition, and...

03.02.2024 200

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The wrong foot forward

IN the upcoming national elections, it seems democracy itself is at stake. The electoral process has been reduced to an “undemocratic farce”. A...

08.01.2024 90

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The road to disaster

POLICE and the judiciary are among the top corrupt institutions, according to Transparency International Pakistan’s National Corruption Perceptions...

16.12.2023 200

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