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The tragedy of world-wide forced displacement
Tuesday, 23 May 2017, 1:40 pm | Redress Information
It constitutes the greatest humanitarian crisis since the World War II and affecting huge numbers of people and demanding all that is best in us. Yet instead of compassion, understanding and unity, all too often intolerance, ignorance and suspicion characterise ... More >>
Grotesque inequality and anxiety
Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 3:13 pm | Redress Information
Anxiety and depression are at unprecedented levels worldwide and the numbers are growing. The World Health Organisation (WHO) describes it as an epidemic, and estimates that 615 million people are suffering from one or other of these debilitating diseases. More >>
Blasphemy and terrorism: Catchall phrases to repress dissent
Friday, 5 May 2017, 3:24 pm | Redress Information
Blasphemy has joined terrorism as a catchall phrase to intimidate, incarcerate and kill critics and political opponents as well as stifle unfettered debate and settle scores. More >>
The Pope in Egypt: Tiptoeing through a minefield
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 3:37 pm | Redress Information
Billed as a bid to stimulate inter-faith dialogue, Pope Francis, on a visit to Egypt , is tiptoeing through a religious and geopolitical minefield. More >>
Why Abbas fears the prisoners’ hunger strike
Wednesday, 3 May 2017, 3:34 pm | Redress Information
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, is due to meet Donald Trump in the White House on 3 May to discuss reviving the long-cold corpse of the peace process. More >>
The omnipresent pressure to conform - Graham Peebles
Thursday, 27 April 2017, 12:48 pm | Redress Information
It was the school holidays and there were lots of teenagers in my local park. I sometimes spot them meandering home, but I rarely see them en masse as it were. Blind to the bluebells, peacocks and glories of nature all around us, they were glued to their ... More >>
Defeating the IS group: A war mired in contradictions
Tuesday, 28 March 2017, 1:55 pm | Redress Information
US President Donald J. Trump’s vow to defeat what he terms radical Islamic terrorism forces the United States to manoeuvre the Middle East’s and North Africa’s murky world of ever shifting alliances and labyrinths of power struggles within power struggles. More >>
The revolution in work calls for an evolution in living
Thursday, 23 March 2017, 10:14 am | Redress Information
Poverty blights the lives of billions of people throughout the world: in developing countries, where it is acute, and industrialised nations, where it’s hidden but growing. It rises out of social injustice, makes exploitation and abuse inevitable, ... More >>
Grandiose delusional disorder
Friday, 3 March 2017, 1:28 pm | Redress Information
During the presidential campaign I often referred to Donald Trump as a congenital liar, but it is possible that in doing so I made a “category mistake”. By definition liars, even chronic ones, belong to a category of people who know that there is truth ... More >>
Dysfunction in the US White House
Thursday, 16 February 2017, 4:32 pm | Redress Information
There is something both horrifying and fascinating about the behaviour of President Donald Trump, as we watch him fail to cope with – or perhaps even recognise – the differences between the no-holds-barred world he created for his campaign and ... More >>
Women’s gyms lay bare limits of Saudi reforms
Wednesday, 15 February 2017, 3:15 pm | Redress Information
A Saudi decision to license within weeks the kingdom’s first women-only gyms constitutes progress in a country in which women’s rights are severely curtailed. It also lays bare the limitations of Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s plan for social ... More >>
Trump’s assault on human kindness, cooperation & environment
Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 3:37 pm | Redress Information
An undercurrent of fury is bubbling beneath the prevailing gloom that is the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. More >>
Searching for peace in a troubled world
Friday, 3 February 2017, 4:16 pm | Redress Information
Since the Cold War ended in 1989 violent conflict had been decreasing but, according to the Global Peace Index , in 2016 this trend was reversed. More >>
Pakistani crackdown on extremists
Friday, 3 February 2017, 4:05 pm | Redress Information
Pakistan has put one of the world’s most wanted men under house arrest in a half-hearted crackdown on a militant group with close ties to the military and intelligence, in a bid to persuade President Donald Trump from adding the country to those whose citizens ... More >>
The price for Trump and Saudi-supported illiberalism
Tuesday, 31 January 2017, 11:56 am | Redress Information
US president Donald J. Trump’s fuelling of Islamophobia with his newly imposed travel ban as well as his war on the mainstream media feed an increasing trend towards supremacism and intolerance as well as restrictions on freedom of expression, media ... More >>
Saudi Arabia’s ultra-conservative footprint in Africa
Friday, 27 January 2017, 2:11 pm | Redress Information
There is much debate about what spurs political violence. The explanations are multi-fold. There is one aspect that I’d like to discuss as it relates to Africa, and that is the role of Saudi Arabia. Let me be clear: With the exception of a handful of ... More >>
American Zionists and the issue of immigrants
Friday, 27 January 2017, 1:15 pm | Redress Information
It is a strange story. American Jews (and I expect it is the case with other Jews too) act in solidarity with discriminated groups only if they, the Jews, resist Zionist leadership. If they follow the Zionist lead, they usually do one of two things: passively ... More >>
The deceitful words of Israel’s UK Ambassador Mark Regev
Wednesday, 25 January 2017, 11:45 am | Redress Information
Why wasn’t this dangerous individual sent packing after the Israeli embassy plot to “take down” senior UK government figures? More >>
Israel’s manipulation of UK politics
Friday, 13 January 2017, 12:51 pm | Redress Information
Both the Foreign Office and Boris Johnson, the UK’s foreign secretary, have declared the Shai Masot affair “closed” after Masot, an employee of the Israeli embassy and probably a Mossad asset, plotted with gullible British MPs and political hangers-on ... More >>
Fury at Azaria verdict is Israel’s Trump moment
Thursday, 12 January 2017, 11:20 am | Redress Information
The United Kingdom has Brexit. The United States, an incoming President Trump. And Israel now has Elor Azaria. It may not have the same ring, but ultimately the turning point could prove as decisive. More >>
