Eric Ham, a political analyst, talks about US Senator Cory Booker’s 25-hour record speech in the Senate. Was it just a spectacle, or can it galvanise the Democrats?
Montreal, Canada – Donald Trump has been in the White House for less than three weeks, but the United States president has already launched what many say is a concerted attack on the rights of migrants and refugees. The Republican leader has sent migrants to the notorious detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; pushed for more…
Shortly after Donald Trump was first elected president in 2016, The Washington Post unveiled this pompous and, by now, obsolete slogan: “Democracy Dies in Darkness”. The ominous-sounding motto was meant, I expect, to convey, at once, the brewing threat that a Trump presidency posed to America’s decaying republic, and the Post’s solemn, cross-our-hearts commitment to…
Fears of new Israeli war on Lebanon after rockets launched
Between Us Returning to our homes in Gaza Read more After 15 months of war, hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians have returned to northern Gaza under the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, a resident of northern Gaza, says their return is a defiant rejection of displacement, including Trump’s Gaza…
Donald Trump has threatened to levy tariffs against the European Union if the bloc does not buy more oil and gas from the United States, in the latest economic warning from the US president-elect before his inauguration next month. In a brief post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said he told the EU “that…
Afghans who fled their home country after the Taliban’s return to power in 2021 are pleading for the United States to reconsider a decision cancelling all existing refugee resettlement efforts. On Wednesday, reactions continued to pour in against an executive order Trump had signed two days prior, on his first day in office. Recommended Stories…
