By: Dr. Warda Sada After a conversation with a highly professional sports coach, I found myself rethinking the relationship between education, civic behavior, and democracy. This person treats all club members with great respect—without discrimination based on religious affiliation, nationality, or gender. His daily conduct is characterized by fairness, attentiveness, and equal respect. I was therefore surprised by his right-wing political views, which I often perceive as extreme, and which...

By: Warda Sada This popular proverb sums up a simple and frightening truth: whoever possesses power and finds no one to restrain them will continue their actions without limits, leaving behind immeasurable destruction. When I think about U.S. foreign policy, this truth appears before me without disguise. Iraq, for me, is not merely a country on the map, but an experience I lived through and followed closely. I was shocked by what happened to it, but I know Iraq was not the beginning. Before...

By: Dr. Warda Sada It is impossible to understand what Venezuela is experiencing today—or the way Nicolás Maduro is portrayed in Western discourse—outside the broader context of global politics built on double standards. The issue is not Maduro as an individual, nor merely the nature of his regime, but the international system itself: how it defines legitimacy, who holds the right to punish, and who is exempt from accountability. Nicolás Maduro is not a liberal democratic model, and his...