Downstream: This Journalist Spent a Year Embedded With the Taliban
This journalist embedded himself with the Taliban.
Tag: middle east
Opinion: I Have Lived Through Two Nakbas
Ghada Karmi
Nakba survivor Ghada Karmi reflects on a year spent watching history repeat itself.
Long Read: How the Guardian’s Editor-in-Chief Caved to Pro-Israel Pressure
Rivkah Brown
Having started her career as an unflinchingly pro-Palestine author-activist, Guardian editor Katharine Viner has since risen to one of the most powerful positions in media. The ascent has changed her, colleagues say. Rivkah Brown reports.
Opinion: On Migration, the Polish Left Has All But Given Up
Dan Davison & Ewa Pospieszyńska
Rather than challenge far-right xenophobia head-on, the Polish left is swerving it, while advising voters to skip the upcoming immigration referendums. This spineless avoidance serves nobody, write Ewa Pospieszyńska and Dan Davison.
Analysis: The Public Supports Palestine. Why Don’t Our Politicians?
Ell Folan
The polls are unequivocal: nobody likes Israel, not even Tories, writes Ell Folan. So why are our politicians so absolutely committed to keeping their fingers in their ears?
Downstream: How the Mainstream Media Enabled Climate Denial
Aaron Bastani speaks to George Monbiot about COP26, which countries are climate change leaders and how the mainstream media enabled a culture of climate denial when it mattered most.
The Bastani Factor: Operation Legacy: How the British Elite Re-Wrote World History
Conservatives are obsessed with the idea that the left wants to erase Britain’s history. Yet that’s precisely what happened when its empire collapsed after 1945, as re-writing the past became a matter of state policy executed on an industrial scale. Here Aaron Bastani explains what was called ‘Operation Legacy’ and how those who care about […]
Analysis: Western Elites Aren’t Mourning the Loss of Afghan Life, but of Their Own Power
David Wearing
The west has suffered another humiliating defeat in the bogus “war on terror”, writes David Wearing, and the warmongers aren’t taking it well.
Novara Live: Palestinians Rise up As Israel Escalates Attack on Gaza
As Israel escalates attacks on Gaza, Palestinians across the region are rising up with a unity not seen for a generation. Is Israeli apartheid facing its greatest threat?
Novara Live: Biden Announces Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Joe Biden has announced all US troops will leave Afghanistan by September. After 20 years of war, in what state do the US and their British allies leave the country and its people?
Analysis: Unfinished Revolutions: What Were the Roots of the Arab Uprisings?
David Wearing
Ten years ago today, thousands poured onto the streets of Egypt and the Arab uprisings began in earnest. In the first piece of a new series on what these events can teach us about Western imperialism in the twenty-first century, David Wearing takes a look at the roots of the uprisings.
Novara Live: Classroom Warfare
Dishing out A-level results in the midst of a pandemic was always going to be hard. That doesn’t excuse a process which has turned into an unprecedented disaster, thrown up arbitrary grades, and dashed the hopes of thousands of young people. But with the poorest hit hardest, is this a case of government incompetence, or of […]
What Could a Corbyn Government Mean for Britain’s Foreign Policy in Oman?
Phil Miller
Phil Miller caught up with Omani activist Khalfan al-Badwawi, who was tortured in Oman and now lives in exile in London, about the UK's decades-long involvement in Omani politics and what a Corbyn-led government could mean for British foreign policy.
Could a Corbyn Government Change UK Foreign Policy in Bahrain?
Phil Miller
While we all know about Jeremy Corbyn’s support for the Palestinian struggle, his progressive foreign policy positions do not end there. Many oppressed peoples are looking at Corbyn’s record of supporting their struggles and daring to dream about what could happen if he became UK Prime Minister. Corbyn gave us a taste at last year’s […]
Long Read: ‘A real revolution is a mass of contradictions’: Interview with a Rojava Volunteer
Rojava Solidarity Cluster
Peter Loo headed for Rojava in October 2016. In this interview he reflects on his experiences so far, from politics and the economy, to feminism, meeting other volunteers, and Rojava's relationship to other combatants in the Syrian civil war.
Long Read: Britain’s Involvement in Yemen: A Silent Role in a Forgotten War
Heather McRobie
Revelations that the British military has been directly involved in drone strikes in Yemen underscores the fact that one year on from the start of the conflict, Britain continues to be complicit in the largely-ignored war in the country.
April 6 Youth Movement: The State is Silencing a Voice of Egypt’s Revolution
Heather McRobie
Last month, the leaders of the April 6 Youth Movement spent the 8th anniversary of the Egyptian group behind bars. Crucial to the 2011 revolution, their experiences since then show how Egypt has fallen back to the ‘deep state’.
6 Misconceptions About the Iran Nuclear Deal
JT White
The deal on Iran’s nuclear programme has the potential to break with the tensions of the past. Yet the deal was made on wrongheaded assumptions about Iran. To this day we still view the country through a prism of falsehoods.