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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
The Iranian people will not accept US interference into their own political affairs. In fact, such action may cause many Iranians to unite, at least temporarily, behind the regime. By C.J. Polychroniou Via Common Dreams Iran’s Islamic regime is under incredible pressure as the protests that begun in late December over the collapse of the currency have morphed […]
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late. CHRIS HEDGES JAN 11 I have seen the masked goons who terrorize our streets before. I saw them during the “Dirty War” in Argentina, where 30,000 men, […]
Current developments in Venezuela may appear to be unfathomable—until one recalls the long history of imperialist interference in Latin America and the Caribbean. By Daniela Ortiz and Gisela Cernadas Current developments in Venezuela may appear to be unfathomable—until one recalls the long history of imperialist interference in Latin America and the Caribbean. The events of the […]