Al Jazeera1 hour agoDonald Trump’s motley cabinet is getting a bum and a dumb rapverified_publisherAl Jazeera - Andrew MitrovicaSo far, his cabinet picks look like a bunch of [sheet white] boy scouts and girl guides in comparison to many of those who preceded them. You know America is circling the drain when a minor TV sitcom personality and D-list comedian-turned-podcast host is considered a formidable political force …
Al Jazeera5 hours agoUNESCO is failing victims of Japan’s historical colonial exploitationverified_publisherAl Jazeera - Nikolai JohnsenAnd we, the international community, are letting it happen. On November 24, 2024, Japan held a memorial service at its UNESCO site, the Sado Gold Mines, in Niigata to commemorate labourers who worked in it. South Korean officials who were invited boycotted the event. Instead, on the following day, …
Al Jazeera5 hours agoResolving India’s population woes requires political maturityverified_publisherAl Jazeera - Sitaraman ShankarThe best solutions are to be found in getting politicians to behave apolitically and look at the long-term future of the country, not their own immediate gains. Population growth in India is on a downward trajectory. Economist Shamika Ravi, a member of the Economic Advisory Council to Indian Prime …
Al Jazeera1 day agoThe West, the ICC, and ‘mtu wetu’ in Israelverified_publisherAl Jazeera - Patrick GatharaThe mobilisation of an imagined identity is very effective in scaring off prosecutors and intimidating judges. The arrest warrants for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC), have brought back not-so-fond …
Al Jazeera1 day agoThe IMF and the World Bank must be abolished to save the planetverified_publisherAl Jazeera - Keston K PerryThese two institutions enslave climate-stricken nations with debt, making the consequences of any climate disaster that much worse. As yet another United Nations Climate Change Conference fails to produce a strong commitment to urgent climate action, the climate crisis is on course to get much worse. …
Al Jazeera2 days agoIsrael and its supporters cannot gaslight the lawverified_publisherAl Jazeera - Refik HodzicArguments that the ICC is ‘criminalising’ self-defence by issuing arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant are absurd. It was expected that the issuance of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant …
