Opinions

On February 24, 2022, the army of the Russian Federation began the “military operation” in Ukraine, triggering war between states in the heart of Europe. A year of destruction of buildings, factories, power plants, bridges and strategic facilities. A year…

One evening in November 2019, I went to a bar with some British classmates. Of course, as the only international student, one of them asked where I was from. After hearing ‘Argentina’, something snapped within her brain and automatically asked:…

Cuba, a country of eleven million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the United States government for over six decades. By Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad Despite this embargo, Cuba’s people have been able to transcend the indignities…

The death toll in Turkey’s worst earthquake in recorded history has exceeded 24,500. And in neighboring Syria, more than 3,500 people died. With this, the death toll in Monday’s earthquake has increased to over 28,000. By Sufian Siddique The first…

By Shruti Punia and Marc Finaud* The eight-year-old asymmetric war conducted by Saudi Arabia with its allies against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen cannot be won despite Riyadh’s enormous military superiority resulting from massive western arms sales. This major…

A Year of Total Escalation We’re fast approaching the one year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Over the course of the year 2022 the US, with its NATO allies in tow, did everything in its power to escalate the…

The global chessboard of geopolitics and the interests of the world’s economic power is making us more and more prone to a world war if we do not avoid it. On such a chessboard, political leaders instead of uniting to…

Anybody who closely follows global warming knows that the Arctic has been clobbered 2-3 times beyond the impact on the planet. And knowledgeable sources also know that what happens in the Arctic doesn’t stay in the Arctic. After all, for…

A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused by warfare during the last 100 years (not to go back any further and include the deaths suffered…

Roger Waters, co-founder of  Pink Floyd, addressed the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting today, Wednesday 8, 2023 in New York. (video below) Madame/Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen. I feel profoundly honoured to be afforded this singular opportunity to…