HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
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Official: two-thirds of US want major political change
A new poll shows record numbers think that their leaders are corrupt, have little faith in the political system or want more direct influence. Time for the left to unpeg its nose and ride this wave of popular disgust, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Like earlier polls that showed a decline in Cold-War imposed hostility to socialism, the new poll shows that the image disseminated by smug elites and media hacks of the masses as ignorant and conservative is a myth
CJ ATKINS reports on the stand that saw Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif hauled out of Israel’s parliament during Donald Trump’s vainglorious address
ROGER McKENZIE argues that Western powers can see the beginning of the end in the rise of the global South — and racist reactions are kicking in
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Taking a brief look at who the US president surrounds himself with reveals a team dedicated to the complete erasure of Palestine, not justice and civil rights for its people, writes TERRY HANSEN
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN
IF you sometimes think that US politicians are aliens descended from another galaxy, you are not alone.
A recent Pew poll conducted in December 2020 shows that 67 per cent of those surveyed agreed that “most politicians are corrupt.”
While the media and the two-party system have done their best to divide citizens into two warring tribes standing before an unbridgeable chasm, scorn for corrupt politicians transcends that divide.
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