On December 3, Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador who is also a Bitcoin influencer and the self-dubbed “coolest dictator in the world”,...
Over a period of two days just outside Beirut in September 1982, Israeli-backed Lebanese militiamen slaughtered up to 3,500 Palestinian refugees and...
On July 27, two top executives from prominent US gun companies – Marty Daniel of Daniel Defense and Christopher Killoy of Sturm, Ruger and Co –...
On the morning of Monday, July 4, as the United States was gearing up for its 246th annual celebration of independence from Britain, the National...
Every year on July 4, to much fanfare and revelry, the United States marks its 1776 independence from Britain.The date is also an official holiday...
The front cover of the 1982 American University of Beirut yearbook features a black and white sketch of a campus building, foregrounded by a dozen...
In his official remarks on the May 24 elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas – during which 18-year-old gunman Salvador Ramos killed 19...
Everyone has by now heard about the latest gaffe by former United States president and unconvicted war criminal George W Bush, father of the 2003 US...
While in Havana this past February, I made the acquaintance of a man in his mid-fifties, who hailed from the eastern Cuban province of Guantanamo...
Back in December 2020, the Independent reported that Chris Philp – the then UK parliamentary under secretary of state and minister for immigration...
Flying into Dallas Fort Worth International Airport from Mexico in December, I queued in the immigration line for US citizens and was taken aback...
The other day in Mexico, I fell into conversation with an older gentleman from Virginia who had recently lost a brother to cancer. Choking up as he...
In November of last year, The Washington Post reported that, nearly nine months after the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States,...
Despite ostensibly distinguishing between refugees who are actually fleeing war and other allegedly less deserving categories of migrant, the League...
While the effective substitution of social media for life has certainly become normalised – and even more so courtesy of the coronavirus pandemic...
Some years ago, my estranged grandmother – a psychologically unstable resident of Florida and a devout believer in the right to bear arms –...
The US corporate media as a whole have been less than serious in their coverage of recent events in Cuba – to the extent that many outlets have...
US hypocrisy is as old as the nation itself, but the whole ‘drug war’ constitutes its own special level of hypocritical overdose. As the...
On May 14, the official Twitter account of the Israeli military tweeted a “pop quiz” video, inviting viewers to “imagine” that they...
In mid-March, Reuters reported that Mexico would “restrict movement on its southern border with Guatemala to help contain the spread of...
Shortly after the onset of the pandemic here in Mexico last year, femicides and calls to domestic violence hotlines soared. Mexican President...
In early January, as the world waited to see whether the United States’s addiction to carnage and destruction would lead to all-out war with Iran,...
When I was a child, I used to dream of growing up to live in a magical world where my every move would be monitored by cameras tracking my identity,...
As part of a crackdown on corruption and crime, Mexico’s new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has revamped the national fuel distribution...
Hitchhiking through Venezuela some years ago, a friend and I availed ourselves of the novel opportunity to receive free medical care at health...
During a Thanksgiving Day teleconference with members of the US armed forces, US President Donald Trump took the opportunity to exult over the...
The theme of this year’s World Water Day – marked annually on 22 March – is ‘Nature for Water’, which, as the website of the United...
Every so often in the US, a scandal erupts to temporarily demolish the country’s marketed image as a pioneer in gender equality and related...
As the world has by now been made painfully aware, Donald Trump’s preeminent goal as president of the US is to ‘make America great...
As Earth Day comes around once again this April 22, the powers that be appear rather committed to staying on the self-destructive course. Lest...
As Donald Trump’s sordid vision of a “big, beautiful wall” on the US-Mexico border begins to take shape, The Guardian has revealed...
The legacies of the year 2016 include the introduction into the popular lexicon of the term “fake news”. To be sure, “fake”...
As of the year 2006, Fidel Castro, Cuba’s revolutionary leader, who has died aged 90, had reportedly been the subject of no fewer...
In the Iranian city of Isfahan the other day, I chatted with a carpet vendor who had in his possession two carpets woven by Afghan refugees in...
Of course, if you appear to be a Muslim these days in New York and the greater US, chances are you’ve got plenty of valid fears – such...
Back in 2012, in the southern Peruvian city of Ayacucho I found myself carrying a small white coffin containing the remains of a man named Alejandro...
On the final page of my friend Juan’s Mexican passport are two words, handwritten in English and in capital letters: ‘Ordered Removed.’ The...
