My article in Al Jazeera English explaining the ways in which Israel is (re) launching a global “war on terror” with the US playing the role of weapons-providing wingman. Here’s an extract: It is easy to get distracted by US officials pledging to rally support for a “humanitarian pause” and reducing the number of civilian…
Articles in Al Jazeera English
Nothing to celebrate on South Sudan's 4th independence anniversary
My piece in Al Jazeera English today: It’s hard to think of a better example of the UN Human Rights Council’s failure. In early July, it decided to send monitors to South Sudan “to report on the situation of human rights and to undertake a comprehensive assessment of alleged violations and abuses of human rights,…
What aid dependence does to South Sudan
My following essay appears in Al Jazeera English: The book launch was held in a large restaurant last weekend in the middle of the South Sudanese capital, Juba. Veteran journalist and editor of The Citizen, Victor Keri Wani, was being celebrated for his 40 years in the media business, an eternity in a country that…