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The ceasefire illusion: How Trump’s plan turned genocide into a PR triumph
While Israel continued its killing, Trump’s 'ceasefire' served as an effective cover-up, with our media helping to manufacture the illusion.
’A death sentence in a different form’: Rohingya women on their struggle for survival in the world's largest refugee camp
Years after escaping the bullets in Myanmar, the terror for Rohingya women in Bangladesh is now a slow-burning crisis of hunger, violence and despair. Three mothers fight to keep hope alive for a generation born into a world that has rendered them invisible.
The fresco that saved a city: Piero Della Francesca's Resurrection and its enduring power
Aldous Huxley’s praise for Piero della Francesca’s Resurrection once moved a British officer to spare a town—showing how art can outlast war and shape destiny.
The seven deadly sins of modern democracy
Democracy, as we know it, is mortally wounded; the noblest act now is to let it die and replace it with a more idoneous form of governance, one that preserves the best of the ideals that have been usurped.
A trap disguised as peace: Trump's Gaza plan is an ultimatum for surrender
Trump's deal offers no accountability for genocide, no end to apartheid and no justice for victims. It is a blueprint for continued colonial repression and permanent Israeli impunity.
‘Maintaining our inner peace’ on Gaza is complicity. Here's the psychological cost of our silence
The phrase ‘I don’t know enough’ feels like a personal admission of humility. It is, in fact, the political slogan of a generation taught to mistake individual powerlessness for a lack of moral responsibility.
Forging a new canon: The birth of American literature
The birth of a new literary American tradition attempting to create an original identity, distinct from its European roots.
Earth's weather-makers: The climate engines driving global drought
Weakening Atlantic and Indian Ocean circulations, alongside persistent heat domes and Pacific climate swings, are intensifying droughts, undermining crops and water supplies and putting millions at risk of hunger worldwide.
Why international law remains an illusion - And the prospect of a nation beyond sovereignty
So long as states control legal enforcement, international justice remains out of reach. Could a sovereign body of supranational law break the grip of Westphalia?
Yemen’s silent front: Women and the war that never ends
For women in Yemen, war is not only fought with bombs, it is felt in childbirth, hunger and the daily struggle for survival.
Five nations, one failure: The Security Council's deadly indifference to hunger
Born from the ashes of world war, the Security Council promised protection and peace. Today, its veto powers ensure silence as millions starve.
'Now is the time of monsters': How religious leaders are failing their moral duty
From rabbis sanctioning a holy war to a Pope who won't name the aggressor, the world's great religions are facing a crisis of conscience over Gaza. Is their silence and complicity creating a Judaism without a soul and a Christianity without a heart?
The day the UN walked out of New York: How the UN lost its will to defy the US
In 1988, the UN forced Washington to its knees by moving to Geneva so Yasser Arafat could speak. Today, as the US blocks Palestinian leaders and arms Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the Assembly stays silent. Has the UN lost its courage?
'Faith, land and gold': The making of American culture
The relentless drive for faith, land and gold propelled a diverse people across a continent, creating an American culture from the collision of European traditions, African resilience and the raw wilderness itself.
Caravaggio’s two Matthews: Realism rejected, revelation remade
Between 1600 and 1601, Caravaggio recast the scene: out went the coarse, patron-spurned Matthew and dominating angel; in came classical dress, a lighter touch and a writer in charge.
The hidden war on honeybees: Murder hornets, parasitic wasps and the fight for survival
From hornets that can wipe out entire hives in under two hours to wasps that hollow bees from within, invasive predators are undermining apiculture worldwide.
Open letter to the UN: Protect press freedom and defend human rights
The deliberate persecution of journalists is spreading unchecked across the world. Without urgent and enforceable action, the UN risks abandoning its founding values of dignity, justice and truth.
'The prophets of annihilation': Inside the movement that sees genocide as god's will
For millions of Christian Zionists, the annihilation of Palestinians is not a crime to be condemned, but a sacred prophecy to be fulfilled. This is the story of the theological engine driving the war on Gaza.
89 seconds to midnight: The cost of lost empathy
Our greatest threat lies not only in nuclear arms or climate collapse but in the death of empathy itself. Unless we confront the four horsemen of exploitation, greed, colonialism and nationalism, nature will deliver the reckoning we refuse to face.
World federalism is the key to ending functional illiteracy and reviving civilisation
In an age of abundant technology yet persistent functional illiteracy, world federalism asks what it truly means to be civilized and how global literacy can enable a continuous human renaissance.
