German Chancellor Olaf Scholz denounced violence against women in Iran and Afghanistan in a video message ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8.
Afghanistan is worse than ever. America should take responsibility.
Sadly, this incident of repression is just one of many that regularly take place in Afghanistan. In the 18 months since the U.S. withdrawal, the situation in Afghanistan under the Taliban regime …
Post-Afghanistan, US should be wary of stoking flames of conflict
Readers discuss aggressive American rhetoric, the rules-based world, and why some Hongkongers are keeping their masks on Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your …
Chomsky & Afghanistan
NOAM Chomsky the humanitarian activist, political analyst and teacher, founder of modern linguistics, philosopher of the mind and cognitive psychology has been educating the world …
The Iraq War Unleashed an Age of Grift. We’re Still Living in It
The Iraq War was supposed to showcase American potency after 9/11. But the fuck-around stage gave way within months to a finding-out stage that lasted for years. A war partially predicated on dealing …
Analogy between Japan’s ‘Lost Decade’ and China’s devt seriously flawed
A recent Financial Times opinion piece, quoting “new research” by Citigroup analysts, drew an analogy between China’s coming economic trajectory and Japan’s “Lost Decade” of painful recession from …
Hanging out with Pakistan’s 1%
“Often they have actually lost a lot of wealth that they originally had, but they continue to own property and have high status, even though they’re no longer the most-wealthy people in Pakistan. Many …
Terrorist Shot Dead In Pak, His Property In Jammu And Kashmir Attached
Less than two weeks after Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Bashir Ahmad Peer was shot dead in Pakistan, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) today attached his property in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara …
China should pursue ‘peaceful reunification’ to resolve ‘Taiwan question’, Premier Li Keqiang tells annual meeting of parliament
China’s Premier Li Keqiang says its armed forces should devote greater energy to training under combat conditions and boost combat preparedness.
Will Philippines’ expanded military pact drag Manila into possible US-China conflict over Taiwan?
The Enhanced Defence Cooperation Agreement is due to be renewed for second 10-year lease, allowing the US military to access 9 Philippine sites, up from the current 5; Politicians …