The international community should support Afghanistan
The fighting is over and it is time for the Afghans to rebuild their devastated country. But they need help.
Category Archives: Opinions
US border crisis is born of failed climate and migration policies
The US itself has created, and is now perpetuating, this crisis through short-sighted and ineffectual policies.
My generation can liberate Palestine and end the occupation
But we cannot do this alone. For us to succeed, the international community needs to end its silence and stand with us.
Canada is a pedestrian nation
A motley crew of transparently unserious 'leaders' are vying to become the country's next prime minister.
Haiti: Why 2021 is and is not 2010
Haitian resistance is emerging against a repeat of the aid failures following the 2010 earthquake response.
How did 9/11 and the War on Terror change Kenya’s trajectory?
From deadly terror attacks to a disastrous invasion, 9/11 had many grave consequences for Kenya.
#PalestinianPrisoners: This is not the time to despair
The story of the six Palestinian political prisoners should inspire hope and action, not throw us into despair.
It is time to stop playing Jenga with US foreign policy
Imperial hubris leads the US to build towers doomed to fall.
The West is getting Afghanistan wrong – again
Here are four misconceptions about the Afghan crisis that Western politicians and pundits continue to spread.
9/11 should have led to a criminal investigation, not a war
The challenge is to understand how and why the West elected to position al-Qaeda as the counterweight to the US.
The ‘war on terror’ and the disciplining of American Muslims
American Muslims have been subjected to a multibillion-dollar securitisation effort that has devastated the community.
9/11 and the racial limitations of religious freedom in America
For the past 20 years, Muslims in the US have been systematically racialised and their civil liberties curbed.
India’s deepening love affair with Israel
Under Modi's leadership, the strategic, military, and ideological ties between Israel and India are growing stronger.
The US-Saudi ‘special’ relationship 20 years after 9/11
In the past 20 years, it was no 9/11 that shook the close ties between Washington and Riyadh.
What to make of the Taliban’s ‘exclusive’ caretaker government
Women, the Hazara minority and all political opposition have been excluded from the Taliban's new administration.
The Mafia and Israel’s child killers
Are Israel's child-killing snipers any different to the Mafia's hitmen?
Palestine: An open-air museum of colonialism
Palestine has been turned, brutally, into a permanent museum of colonialism whose doors should have closed long ago.
Getting jabbed in New York: Vaccines for a sick system?
Getting vaccinated in New York was my only good medical experience in the US, ever.
9/11: Remembering the irredeemable
Twenty years ago, for a brief moment, the soul of the American people feared what the world fears all the time.
Europe is politicising Afghan refugees instead of helping them
It is time for the EU to come up with a migration policy that reflects its moral responsibility towards Afghans at risk.