We are reminded of our endless wars only when the government wants to invoke patriotism without criticism.

By William Astore

By Ahmed bin Qasim

I’ve been watching the images of bloodshed and targeted attacks against Indian Muslims breaking out on the streets of Delhi. The role of the police in precipitating violence in Delhi and the detention spree in Kashmir since August 5, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi revoked the region’s nominal autonomous status, has laid bare a glaring truth: The Indian government is willing to use any means to crack down on dissent.

by Yvonne Ridley

01 Mar 2020; MEMO: The leaders of one of the most demonised and misunderstood groups in the world sat down in Qatar today and signed an accord which will see US and NATO troops withdraw after 18 years of war in Afghanistan.

By Seema Khan

 What happened in Delhi has been simmering for a long time. It was expected and no one should be surprised given the type of speeches we had been hearing during the election campaign by the BJP leaders like  Anurag Thakur, Kapil Mishra, Amit Shah and others.

by Asa Winstanley

by Thembisa Fakude

27 Feb 2020; MEMO: It is worth remembering that the initial protests in Syria were calling for social change, not regime change. It was the heavy-handed response of the Bashar Al-Assad government to the protests which changed attitudes and radicalised many ordinary people in the country.

by Seema Khan

Arvind Kejriwal taking oath as Delhi Chief Minister for the third time, and APP sweeping the Delhi elections with a massive margin, the myth of antincumbancy disappeared with party winning 63 seats out of 70. Further their was no decline in the vote share of the party.

by Xinhua writer Shi Xiaomeng

BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Beijing and Washington rolled back some extra tariffs on imports from each other on Friday, in line with the China-U.S. phase-one economic and trade agreement signed last month in a joint bid to de-escalate tension.

Nearly two years after the United States unilaterally initiated the row, the world's top two economies are finally taking the first substantial step to end the vicious cycle of tit-for-tat tariffs and move back onto the right track.

by Nasim Ahmed

by Amelia Smith

09 Feb 2020; MEMO: When Trump announced Jerusalem was Israel’s undivided capital under his so-called “deal of the century”, the Egyptian public questioned whether Al-Sisi had a hand in preparing the plan. His support, after all, came just half an hour after the announcement.

by Ismail Yasha

05 Feb 2020; MEMO: At dawn on Monday, Syrian regime forces targeted a Turkish observation post in the Idlib governorate, killing eight Turkish citizens, one of them a civilian. The Turkish army responded immediately to the attack, explained Defence Minister Hulusi Akar, and bombed 54 targets belonging to the regime, killing 76 Syrian soldiers.

by Dr Adnan Abu Amer

02 Feb 2020; MEMO: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas received his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, in the city of Bethlehem this week, and not Ramallah. The choice of venue gave the meeting an unmistakably Christian aspect, something that has been used by Russia recently in its foreign relations.