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The United States has launched an all-out assault on the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the past few weeks alone, the Trump…
Itās sad commentary on US media when two national newspapers, historically representing different poles of the American establishment, appear to share editorial…
Hardliners on both sides in the Ukraine war are pursuing a chimaera in the hope of a miracle. Moscow appears to believe that…
On August 1, Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, a Salvadorian migrant imprisoned at the Delaney Hall Detention Facility in Newark, died. While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) insists…
On the night of July 30, Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that his newly minted āBoard of Peaceā had reached what he termed…
Among many buzzwords in diplo-speak around Palestine is the support for āa demilitarized Palestinian state living side by side in peace next…
In September 2025, Donald Trump designated āantifaā a domestic terror organization. Last month, his administration went one step further by declaring that the āextreme…
The protracted slaughter in Gaza stands as one of the defining moral catastrophes of the modern era. With tens of thousands of…
The edifice complex of the Trump administration is proving to be an aggressive one. As with previous presidents, the current occupant is…
The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning. For years, Israel has…
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