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Triad of evil: President Donald Trump, CIA Director John Ratcliffe and Secretary of State Marco Rubio monitor
US military operations in Venezuela. Photo by Molly Rile

Empire by another name

Under international law, regime change, coercive economic measures and military intervention are unlawful unless authorised by the UN Security Council

Trigger: Donald Trump led the racists and misogynists out of the closet. The killing of George Floyd by a police officer was the flick of the switch that awakened the American white middle class to the extremism enabled by the president. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)

Trump awakes human decency

The US leader’s outrageous rule and overt bigotry roused the white middle class from indifference

Donald Glover’s critically acclaimed Atlanta is showing on the Fox Life channel on DStv.

Atlanta’s finest, ‘Poisoned Pasts’ and December tunes are on our lists this week

The Lists this week were compiled by Friday editor Milisuthando Bongela and senior arts writer Kwanele Sosibo.

Israel’s path ‘worse than apartheid’

Noam Chomsky states that if Israel is boycotted, the same fate should befall the United States. He further believes that a boycott could backfire.

Noam Chomsky speaks on the balcony of the offices of Armenian newspaper Agos during a commemoration ceremony for slain journalist Hrant Dink in Istanbul.

Chomsky: ‘No individual changes anything alone’

Noam Chomsky is one of the world’s most controversial thinkers. Now 84, he reflects on his work, events in Syria and Israel, and the love of his life.

Anniversaries from ‘unhistory’

The way we remember the past often illuminates what we choose to forget.

A cacophony of fundamentalism

Gilbert Achcar: When Arab nationalism, Nasserism and similar trends began to crumble in the 1970s, most governments used Islamic fundamentalism as a tool to counter remnants of…

The rules of disengagement

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains a prime mover of Middle East chaos and suffering. But an impasse-breaker isn’t beyond reach. As Ariel Sharon battles for some form of…