Opinion

trump sharaa

Al-Sharaa’s meeting with Trump isn’t diplomacy — it’s a transaction that boosts US power & tightens his grip, with Syrians left behind, writes Joseph Daher.

Perspectives
COP30 must do good, not just avoid harm

Brazil wants COP30 to be the “COP of implementation,” but real progress means funding and empowering Indigenous peoples, writes Eileen Mairena Cunningham.

Mamdani and New York beat the Israel lobby. Now it wants payback

Zohran Mamdani’s New York win defied the billionaire class and the Israel lobby, and the backlash shows how desperate they are, writes Richard Silverstein.

Israel football

Palestinian football suffers under occupation & apartheid, while Israeli settlement teams play freely, writes Palestinian footballer Mohammed Bassim Rashid.

Trump

US interference has long weakened the UN. Relocating its headquarters would restore neutrality, inclusivity, & global credibility, writes Farea Al-Muslimi.

Narrated
Sudan

For the Sudanese diaspora, the war brings grief and fury in equal measure — Yassmin Abdel-Magied reflects on a pain that distance cannot ease.

Syria

Until we face every era’s crimes—not just Assad’s—true reckoning in Syria is impossible. Justice demands we confront all who built this tyranny.

Gaza

After two years of genocide in Gaza, Israel’s ongoing crimes expose how colonial violence endures—and how the world keeps failing to stop history repeating.

Gaza women

While all media focus is on the ceasefire, the world must not ignore what two years of genocide have done to Palestinian women in Gaza, writes Eman Afana.

Unfiltered
DC

Dick Cheney turned torture into doctrine & war into profit for the US. The Middle East still bears the scars of his brutal legacy, writes Hossam el-Hamalawy.

Palestinian prisoners

Calls to replace ‘Palestinian prisoners’ with the term ‘hostages’ erase the collective struggle & create a false equivalence between coloniser and colonised.

I Left the Goethe-Institut When I Saw What Germany’s Soft Power Really Means in Gaza

Wrapped in the ‘liberal buffer zone’, Germany’s Goethe-Institut has washed its hands of genocide, echoing the Israeli line at every turn, says Eleonora Pennini

Why Qatar Is Still Mediating Between the US and Venezuela?

From Gaza to Kabul, Qatar works quietly to broker peace. How did it become so pivotal, and why now mediate between the US and Venezuela, asks Tanner Manley.

Graphic Truth
Emad Hajjaj Cartoon
Emad Hajjaj Cartoon
Iraq’s elections: Democracy by proxy
Emad Hajjaj Cartoon