Will US attack Iran?
IRAN is at its weakest moment externally since the Iran-Iraq war. Israel’s aggression in Lebanon and Gaza has critically wounded Iran’s allies Hezbollah and Hamas, while Yemen’s Houthis are under…
Ban the gun
ON March 1, a burst of gunfire snuffed out the life of a gentle soul in Washington D.C. He was a social worker helping the mentally challenged and drug addicts.…
Democracy under attack
Despite its shortcomings democracy is widely hailed as the best-known system of governance known to mankind. It ensures participation and will of the people to prevail. Historians believe that democracy…
Mosquito attack
A DISTRESSED colleague called me about what started out as an acute fever, but which progressed, within days, to pain in all the muscles. He was troubled with pain and…
Attack on Trump could spark further US political violence
In a country already on edge, the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump has enraged his supporters, paused the Democratic campaign and raised fears of further political violence in…
Guns and sheep: settlers use shepherding outposts to seize West Bank land
Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank say armed Jewish settlers are increasingly seizing their lands by bringing livestock to so-called shepherding outposts and refusing to leave. One settler arrived recently…
Racist attacks
Violence is situation normal, not just in the United States but across much of the planet. Often the violence is simply an abstraction, aka, war, which is always, always necessary…
Battle of the billionaires: Bezos, Ambani gun for India retail supremacy
Jeff Bezos and Mukesh Ambani, two of the world’s richest men, face a turning point in a battle for preeminence in India’s booming, nearly trillion-dollar retail market. The outcome of…
Gwadar attack
The attack on the Pearl Continental (PC) hotel in Gwadar, Balochistan on May 11, 2019 has opened up a whole can of worms and raised troubling questions about the China…
Palestine under attack
Israeli war planes continued to bomb different residential areas of Gaza on the first day of Eidul Fitr, while in different Israeli cities, extreme rightwing racist mobs continued to attack…
