Who will save Iran?
As the 13th presidential election takes place in three days, on June 18, the propaganda in the Islamic Republic is trying to show that Iranians will go to the polls to determine the fate of their...
Category: Commentary
The Venezuela that hurts
People have to feel a lot of desperation to risk their lives crossing a border illegally. Venezuelans have not experienced this until recently. In the past, we saw how individuals of other...
The tragic consequences of Armenia’s defeat in Nagorno-Karabakh
Armenia – a landlocked Caucasus nation that effectively lost the war against its archenemy Azerbaijan in the fall of 2020 – is struggling to preserve remnants of its sovereignty. Faced with...
The Iraqi Army and the Kurdish Peshmerga are finally teaming up against the Islamic State
For once, there appears to be some positive news coming out of Iraq. The Iraqi Army and the armed forces of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdish region, the Peshmerga, are coordinating against the Islamic...
Support is growing for a universal basic income – and rightly so
Guy Standing, SOAS, University of London Wales has become the latest country to explore the idea of a universal basic income, which gives every adult a fixed amount of money, regardless of their...
Roman Protasevich: How Western sanctions push Belarus into the Russian orbit
Relations between the West and Belarus will be unlikely to be the same after the country’s President Alexander Lukashenko reportedly ordered its security services to force a Ryanair plane, flying...
Farewell to Dad in times of Covid
Covid can be harsh, relentless and painful, but many of us don't know that until we are close to it. I never imagined we would live through pandemic times, much less that my dad would die of...
Failed by the prison system: women and mental health
This piece describes sexual violence, mental ill-health and self-harm I have a diagnosis of complex post-traumatic stress disorder, acute anxiety and depression. I have been misdiagnosed with...
Handmarks of violence
The elderly man sits among a crowd and speaks. He is lean and his face is like old leather. He enumerates the things they have lost. “They took cows, sheep, 500 goats, several horses.” His...
The influence of global warming on the countries of the Arctic region
Climate is one of the most important expenses the world's leading economies face, costing hundreds of trillions of dollars. The Paris Protocol prescribes reducing carbon emissions by at least a...