Otherweb Archive - Opinion - World

• A raid and a secret tape exposed a Sicilian mafia that is shrunken, whiny and clinging on for survival | John Dickie
• Britain’s new blasphemy laws imperil us all
• Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot
• Now is the time for the U.S. to organize a global summit against illegal immigration
• The Palestinian nationalist cause is based on the destruction of the state of Israel
• Hamas hands over alleged body of Shiri Bibas to Red Cross
• A new global center for clean government
• Friedrich Merz won’t give Germany the change it needs
• Bannon's "Nazi" salute spurs far-right French politician to back out out of CPAC
• He sued to block a Biden vaccine mandate. Now he’s helping dismantle USAID.
• Why should America give us free trade when we won’t give our own people free speech?
• Elon Musk received a chainsaw from Argentina’s President Javier Milei at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C
• Westminster’s WhatsApp addiction must end
• Tea for two in '72
• An exiled group within Labour is making a comeback – it could hold the key to repelling Farage | Julian Coman
• Germany’s ban on nuclear is an act of self-harm
• President Trump Is Wrong on Gaza
• Is there a reason why Africa has the lowest IQs on the planet? Is it any coincidence that 8 of the 10 most violent countries in the world are either in Africa or are majority black?
• Mohammed bin Salman wants an alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan – but one that most benefits Saudi Arabia | Madawi al-Rasheed
• Returning to Gaza, German Election ‘Vote-O-Mat’, and the Superpower Race to the Arctic
• Let’s not leave the baby-making debate to Musk and Vance – the left has a stake in this too | Gaby Hinsliff
• The AfD doesn’t need to win
• Victoria Coates: It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that it’s been 500 days since the horrific Hamas attacks of Oct. 7
• Hamas’ macabre handover of hostage remains shows how hate rules all Gaza
• Why they raged at JD Vance
• Fearing U.S. Military Action Against Cartels, Mexico Moves To Reinforce Sovereignty Laws
• At least three buses were bombed in Central Israel in what officials believe was an attempted strategic attack
• 70 Christians were found dead in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) last week — beheaded at the hands of radical Islamic militants
• The bodies of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, kidnapped and murdered by Hamas on October 7, have been returned to Israel
• Netanyahu vows to eliminate Hamas after returning bodies of four hostages
• Hamas paraded four hostages on stage in front of cheering crowds in a propaganda spectacle
• Don’t mention the war: in Germany, politicians are hiding the truth about defence spending | Paul Taylor
• The death of the Bibas family is a stain on the human conscience
• The key global issue is not the clash of north and south: it’s who supports international law and who doesn’t | Jean-Noël Barrot
• Sharone Lifschitz: “On 7 October, my father saw his life’s work going up in flames”
• Canada at the Crossroads: Is it time for Canada to join the U.S.?
• Israel–Gaza: A War Between Cousins
• In these dark times of racially charged election campaigns, the German left offers a flicker of hope | Fatma Aydemir
• In Germany, the Center Can Hold
• Britain Elects: Reform leads Labour
• What does a radical progressive answer to the challenge of economic stagnation look like?
• Viz has picked the wrong side in the culture war
• Europe finally gets the US memo: Pony up and partner in your own defense
• The ‘human rights’ regime has flipped democracy on its head
• Trump will speak at a Saudi-backed summit in Miami, just a day after Rubio met with Russian officials in Riyadh
• JD Vance’s “free speech” hypocrisy
• Letter of the week: Strictly speaking
• Europe is looking to Germany for leadership – but these elections will dash its hopes again | Cas Mudde
• Did JD Vance boost Germany's far right?
• As a child, Xi saw his father, Xi Zhongxun, purged from the senior ranks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over his support for a historical novel
• What Rachel Reeves’s CV reveals about Labour
• How will Britain defend itself?
• Germany faces months of political uncertainty after snap elections on February 23
• Is Iran Ready for a Nuclear Deal? – Max J. Prowant
• Trump’s Gaza takeover won’t happen. But it has already changed the face of Israeli politics | Yair Wallach
• Germany heads to the polls on Sunday; outcome could be as consequential to Europe's future as last election was to U.S
• Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Israel’s Netanyahu
• Kemi Badenoch has strengths – just not those of an opposition leader
• Europe’s emergency is Keir Starmer’s salvation
• It is time to say goodbye to Germany as an oasis of stability
• America Has a Historic Opportunity in the Middle East
• Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is on course for a breakthrough, writes Andreas Krieg
• In Germany, nationalist party Alternative for Germany stands to win a significant number of seats in parliament
• Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to Our Alliance With Europe
• Hamas releases names of final six living hostages set to be released from Gaza
• A list with over 350 names appeared in the New York Times protesting Trump's plan to relocate Palestinians from Gaza
• The Australian nurses who wished death on Israelis
• Ariel and Kfir Bibas, two of Hamas' youngest hostages, will be among the four dead they will return to Israel this week
• India is the world’s most populous country, but it has long been overlooked by the West
• Where deportees are being held
• The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation: Continuing the Legacy of a Trailblazing Journalist
• Canada is crying out for an anti-woke leader
• The assisted-dying bill is unravelling before our eyes
• GOP House committee highlights 60 plus Chinese Communist Party espionage cases in U.S. since 2001
• Penal populism has broken Britain’s prisons
• What I heard in Munich — ordinary Germans long for a Trump of their own
• Voters are sceptical about Dutton’s war on the public service. And America’s disembowelment is a cautionary tale | Peter Lewis
• They're Turning the Friggin' Kennedy Center Straight
• Austria and the normalisation of Islamist terror
• Bombs Away: Israel Gets First American Weapons Since Biden’s Block
• Why are British police pandering to an Islamic State terrorist?
• Vance blasts German prosecutors for saying insults are illegal in their country
• Reform is very wrong about net zero
• No, free speech did not cause the Holocaust
• China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has expanded China’s economic and geopolitical reach across the globe
• Human rights are not a ‘loophole’ – why can’t families from Gaza like mine seek safety in the UK? | Ghassan Ghaben
• Trump’s plan for Gaza leaves Arab nations facing an impossible choice | Nesrine Malik
• A guest on CBS News’ ‘60 Minutes’ attempted to claim that German citizens enjoy free speech — until they say something that law enforcement interprets as ‘hate speech’
• The tech industry has never been more powerful. How do the government's policies stack up? | Samantha Floreani
• CBS News host Margaret Brennan claims the Holocaust was caused because free speech was 'weaponized'
• The punishment doesn’t fit the crime in Britain. That’s why our jails are overflowing | Samira Shackle
• Rich Benjamin’s Journey Home to Haiti
• In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris
• The university could be the last bastion of woke
• How to free the hostages peacefully
• Voices that oppose the assisted dying bill aren’t ‘noise’. They are vital scrutiny | Sonia Sodha
• In practice, to be a citizen of the European Union means to be a citizen of one of the member states of the EU
• Europeans are right to be angry with Donald Trump, but they should also be furious with themselves | Andrew Rawnsley
• The Observer view: A year on from his death, Alexei Navalny still shines bright in a dark land | Observer editorial
• Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy