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The World According to Gaza

Gaza is only the start. The new world order is one where the weak are obliterated by the strong, the rule of law does not exist, genocide is an instrument of control and barbarism is triumphant.   CHRIS HEDGES Mar 16, 2026   The war on Iran and the obliteration of Gaza is the beginning. […]


The Evolutionary History of Sindhi Nationalism: A Critical Class-Based Analysis

The future of Sindhi nationalism depends on its ability to reorient towards a class-conscious, inclusive framework centred on land, labour, and dignity. Without this transformation, it risks remaining symbolically powerful but politically ineffective.   By Suffyan Laghari   This article critically examines the evolutionary history of Sindhi nationalism through a class-based analytical lens. It presents Sindhi nationalism […]


The Voice of Hind Rajab: The Film They Don’t Want You to See

“The Voice of Hind Rajab” reminds us that indifference is complicity. It mocks the rhetoric used to dehumanize Palestinians.   CHRIS HEDGES Feb 27, 2026   NEW YORK: “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” like all great pieces of art, takes a straightforward story — the battle to save the life of a 6-year-old girl, Hind […]


Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a laboratory of death

Algorithms decide who lives and who dies; corporations provide the infrastructure; intelligence services operate in the shadows; and technocratic language seeks to normalise the unacceptable. Gaza bleeds so that this model may be tested, refined, and then exported.   by Sayid Marcos Tenorio   The revelations by +972 Magazine and Local Call have exposed the darkest core of […]


Rojava’s Experiment in Revolutionary Autonomy Is Facing Its Greatest Threat Yet

“Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a member of the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, told me. “The difference is that people here don’t pull back from the obstacles but try to overcome them.”   By Shane Burley / truthout.org   The autonomous area commonly […]


The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age

If we lose, if we let voices like Francesca’s be silenced, we will usher in an age of blood and terror.   CHRIS HEDGES Feb 16, 2026   The viscous and sustained campaign mounted against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, by […]


The Mob is ‘Us’

A classed understanding of mob violence as witnessed in the current Indian scenario.   By Sohini Saha Groundxero | Feb 15, 2026   We are witnessing a moment of normalisation of mob violences across India. Not only that the frequencies and number of incidences are on the rise today, but what concerns me is the growing normalisation […]


How the US Weaponizes Starvation and Aid in Gaza and Cuba 

In both Cuba and Palestine, the United States is deploying its barbaric methods of producing mass suffering in order to bring about political and economic submission.   By NUVPREET KALRA  COMMON DREAMS   Last week, the US government announced it would be sending $6 million in aid to Cuba, on top of the $3 million it […]


SIR and NRC – Complicity of ‘Progressives’ and ‘Left’ Parties in Manufacturing Consent for the BJP’s Disenfranchisement Project

The ‘left’ parties and ‘progressives’ of Assam worked hard to legitimise the NRC in Assam only to hand fascists the justification to conduct a process of disenfranchisement that they will run as they see fit.   Shyamoli Jana   The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process in Bengal has unfolded entirely predictably, creating massive chaos and […]


বাংলাদেশ: বদলে যাওয়া সমাজমন

১২ ফেব্রুয়ারি বাংলাদেশে নির্বাচন। নির্বাচনে যে পার্টিই জিতুক, যারাই ক্ষমতায় আসুক রাজনৈতিক ধর্মের ক্ষমতায়ন এখন সময়ের অপেক্ষা।  আজকের বাংলাদেশে রাজনৈতিক ইসলামের সামাজিকীকরণ প্রায় সম্পূর্ণ। সমাজমনকে উদীচী-ছায়ানট নয় প্রভাবিত করছে হেফাজতে ইসলাম, ইসলামি আন্দোলন ইত্যাদি রাজনৈতিক ইসলামের গোষ্ঠী।   শুভ প্রতিম রায় চৌধুরী   বিপরীত গণনা শুরু হয়েছে। ১২ ফেব্রুয়ারি বাংলাদেশে নির্বাচন। নির্বাচনে যে পার্টিই জিতুক, যারাই […]


Michael Parenti (1933–2026): The Intellectual Who Refused to Be Polite with Power

Michael Parenti’s greatest contribution was not a single book or argument, but a stance: the refusal to flatter power, the refusal to forget history, the refusal to trade truth for respectability.   By Arkadeep Goswami Jan 25, 2026   Michael Parenti’s death marks the passing of one of the last great unapologetic Marxist public intellectuals […]


“Thus Spake Trump”: The Re-invention of Empire in an Age of Declining Hegemony

Trump’s trade wars are often misread as anti-globalization. In reality, they represented a restructuring of imperial economic relations, not their dissolution.   By Arkadeep Goswami   (The presidency of Donald J. Trump is often interpreted as an aberration—an irrational interruption in the smooth functioning of liberal internationalism. This essay argues otherwise. Trumpism represents not a […]


The Last Election

The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all. Trump is no exception.   CHRIS HEDGES Jan 19   Donald Trump’s threat to cancel the midterm elections is not a feign. He attempted to […]


Iran, Imperial Pinkwashing, and the Afterlife of a Captured Revolution

The false binary of clerical authoritarianism versus Western liberalism is precisely what sustains Iran’s crisis. Each pole feeds the other. External threats, sanctions, and war rhetoric provide the theocratic state with a permanent alibi: dissent becomes treason, protest becomes collaboration, and repression is recast as national defence.   By Arkadeep Goswami   Iran today occupies […]


Big Oil’s Big Win in Venezuela

Big Oil is a winner in the U.S. attack on Venezuela, even if they don’t extract a drop of oil from there.   By Basav Sen Via OtherWords   Is the illegal U.S. invasion of Venezuela, and kidnapping of its president, a “war for oil”?   To some extent, this is a reductionist debate. There […]