Otherweb Archive - Opinion - World

• In 2024, our insane asylum rules became impossible to ignore
• Forget Mandelson, Starmer holds the key to the special relationship
• Donald Trump's victory energized the German far-right. Elon Musk's endorsement has them exultant.
• Kirillov killed by explosives planted in scooter in Moscow, Russian officials say
• As a media columnist, even I found myself turning away from the news in 2024. But we can do things differently | Jane Martinson
• The sick town of England
• Left-wing governments are imploding in the West - Washington Examiner
• U.S. Central Command says it killed ISIS leader Abu Yusif in an airstrike in Syria
• French rapist Dominique Pelicot, 72, sentenced to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping his wife
• Our best articles of 2024
• Iran’s Oct. 7 blunder — and Israel’s response — have transformed the Middle East
• Elon Musk throws his support behind Germany's extremist far-right
• The WASPI women were lied to
• Hit TV show, tick. Millions for lawyers, tick. Now could we manage some actual justice for the subpostmasters? | Marina Hyde
• New U.S. embassy, new U.S. ambassador in Mexico City
• Unrwa may be forced to stop saving lives in Gaza. Will the world let that happen? | Philippe Lazzarini
• Fake Fertilizer, Dirty Money, and a Kidnapping Epidemic: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
• Starmer should not be the fall guy for Labour’s failures. This disaster was written by committee | Owen Jones
• Scotland must tame the bloated state
• Gisèle Pelicot has allowed us all to shout out loud: she did it, and we can do it. Gisèle Pelicot is us | Judith Godrèche
• IMF pressures El Salvador to stop pushing bitcoin
• "A calculated policy of deprivation": Israel committing "act of genocide" in Gaza, HRW says
• Gisèle Pelicot has rewritten her story – and electrified women all over the world. But what about men? | Rebecca Solnit
• Israel launches airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen following missile attack on Israeli school
• It’s easier than you think to get the measure of Kemi Badenoch – just ask around in Nigeria | Nels Abbey
• What does the verdict in the Gisèle Pelicot rape trial mean for France? Our panel responds | Rokhaya Diallo, Anne Bouillon and others
• Is China Failing or Thriving? – David Hebert
• The other guy with funny hair
• The Prince Andrew spying scandal exposes the credulity of the elites
• Tan Ikram is the embodiment of two-tier justice
• Investigating Mining, Tracking Trolling, and Deconstructing a Building Collapse: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories from Turkey
• Germany and France are in crisis – is the next global financial crash brewing? | Larry Elliott
• How to Stop a Trade War
• A new government won’t fix France’s political crisis
• Will Reform win in your local council?
• Canada's Trudeau has hardly been a good leader for the last several years
• The path to truth-telling in Australia is thorny and long. But there is some ground for hope | Mark McKenna
• The role model for Syria’s unity
• Even before taking office, Trump may have brought down the Canadian government - Washington Examiner
• Why Elon Musk should keep out of British politics
• Capitalism is the antidote to 'black-pilled' internet pessimists
• A predicted deficit will get the headlines, but remember that budgets are about choices | Greg Jericho
• PMQs review: Kemi Badenoch misses every target
• Why aren’t the Greens doing better?
• Liberation is the dream that came true for Syrians like me. But the reality is not easy | Mona Rafea
• How Germany Destroyed Its Economy, and How to Fix It
• Command and control from London runs England, but that must stop: give the people money and power | Vernon Bogdanor
• Digital Slavery, Nickel Downstreaming, and Timber Grabbing: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories in Southeast Asia
• At last, a figure has emerged who could wrench power from Viktor Orbán in Hungary | Viktória Serdült
• What does the China 'spy' row show? That Starmer can't just muddle through on foreign policy | Rafael Behr
• The Strange Success of North Korea
• The schism at the heart of British Islam
• American Singapore: A MAGA Agenda for Puerto Rico
• Yara is grateful to be in Australia. But it’s not Christmas while family and friends suffer in Gaza | Plestia Alaqad
• Islamophobia is an everyday reality for too many Australians | Aftab Malik
• Christian leaders in Jerusalem call for a 'testify to the sacred light of Christ' this Christmas
• Labour’s gamble with local government
• Germany’s snap election will not just be a referendum on Scholz, but on an entire democratic system | Jörg Lau
• Records tie narco-trafficking son of former Australian political leader to offshore company and Cyprus bank account - ICIJ
• Analysis shows major media outlets parroted flawed Gaza Ministry of Health figures
• The Royal Mail sell-off is a scandal
• Afghanistan Gets $122.5 Mil to Combat Gender-Based Violence under Taliban with no Follow Up - Judicial Watch
• Will Labour’s China reset last?
• ‘DEEPLY DISTURBING’: Biden Pushing Abortion on Black-Majority Country, Sources Say
• U.S. Defied Spanish Embargo on Arms Bound of Israel by Making Enforcement More Difficult
• Israel Strikes And advances Into Syria After Assad’s Fall
• End Of Assad Rule Reshapes Region’s Balance Of Power
• German Confidence Vote Triggers Snap Election
• Vietnam’s transformation signals a powerful truth: Nations committed to change can achieve mutual benefit
• A Mysterious Poisoning, Contaminated Tanker Trucks, and a Death in Custody: 2024’s Best Investigative Stories About China
• South Korea tests the limits of democracy
• The man who bought everything
• Kemi Badenoch needs to improve – and fast
• Christmas can’t save the high street
• China’s Slowdown Has Changed the Trade War
• We have nothing to fear from nuclear energy
• Biden falsely claimed he has 'gotten over 100 hostages out' of Gaza
• I have followed the Bali Nine case for 20 years. This is not about taking sides, except the side of time | Madonna King
• Jena Chanaa, George Mason student caught in possession of Hamas and Hezbollah flags, urged school to condemn Israel for 'genocide' in Gaza
• Fragile Europe, On Its Own
• Innovation by failure in Germany
• Memo to Keir Starmer and co: we are civil servants – not the enemy | The civil servant
• What Streeting vs Miliband revealed
• Can Francois Bayrou unite France’s moderates and keep Marine Le Pen at bay? | Paul Taylor
• Mexico's changing demographics have hardened some Mexicans' views on migration
• Have those who say Starmer is failing forgotten the madness of the Tory years already? | Andy Beckett
• Switzerland’s Hidden Slave Trade, Migrants ‘Dumped’ in the Desert, and a Religious Sex Scandal: 2024’s Best Investigations in French
• The remaining Bali Nine have returned to Australia after nearly 20 years in an Indonesian prison – why now? | Tim Lindsey
• EXCLUSIVE: Sednaya prison is a grim monument to the sadism of the Assad regime
• Things could go very wrong in Syria – they could also go very right. Let’s gift its people optimism | Nesrine Malik
• The Coalition’s nuclear energy plan takes a sharp turn away from a cheaper, cleaner future | Simon Holmes à Court
• Announcing Quillette's Australia Day Party in Adelaide
• What kind of society would willingly traumatise its children in the name of education? | John Harris
• How do we bring joy this Christmas? Build homes, mend potholes, restore trust | Torsten Bell
• France’s newest hero Marc Bloch’s ascent to the Pantheon could not be more timely
• Seoul’s constitutional crisis has upset East Asia’s security status quo
• Taking tips from John Howard, Peter Dutton knows the barbecue stopper is key to shaping the national conversation | Julianne Schultz
• The Coalition’s nuclear costings and their rubbery assumptions take us back to being a climate pariah
• Oreshnik designed to carry a nuclear payload up to 5,500km
• Mazda reconsiders investment in Mexico after Trump threatens to slap 25% tariffs on all goods