The doctrine of ‘sovereign immunity’ is being used to insulate state violence from legal liability.


The doctrine of ‘sovereign immunity’ is being used to insulate state violence from legal liability.

Because in this ‘civilised’ world order, it is not Muslim women who urgently need to be saved from their own extremism.

Canada’s so-called ‘Freedom’ Convoy movement was nothing but a grotesque reflection of the Canadian state itself.

The legal architecture built to buttress the colonial world order continues to be weaponised against the dispossessed.

What should we make of the US assurances regarding how Assange would be treated if extradited?

Across Fortress Europe, the ramparts are being fortified against halal and kosher slaughter.

Did 9/11 really open a ‘new’ chapter in American history?
![People look at 'America's Response Monument', a statue commemorating Special Operations forces who fought during the first stages of the Afghanistan war and the Global War on Terror in New York City on August 30, 2021 [Reuters/Brendan McDermid]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-08-30T210548Z_1777775660_RC2RFP9C41DQ_RTRMADP_3_AFGHANISTAN-CONFLICT-USA.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
The evictions in Toronto are part of violent efforts to sustain settler control over Indigenous land.
![People scuffle with police officers after the eviction of two dozen people from a homeless encampment at Trinity Bellwoods Park in Toronto, Ontario, on June 22, 2021 [Carlos Osorio/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/RTXDJIZD-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
In Canada, ‘anti-Islamophobia’ is being used as yet another tool to consolidate the Islamophobic status quo.
![Family members comfort each other at the Islamic Centre of Southwest Ontario in London, Ontario, on June 12, 2021 during the funeral service for the four members of the Afzaal family killed in a targeted Islamophobic attack [Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP, Pool]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/AP21163688228180.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Why are some Western ‘anti-imperialists’ determined to whitewash China’s well-documented crimes against the Uighurs?
![Ethnic Uighur demonstrators take part in a protest against China, in Istanbul, Turkey October 1, 2020. [Murad Sezer/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2020-10-01T114951Z_1444454967_RC2N9J9X7LBY_RTRMADP_3_CHINA-XINJIANG-TURKEY.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)