Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris. CHRIS HEDGES June 22, 2026 Israel is sabotaging the negotiations with Iran and alienating its last important ally by refusing to halt its attacks on Lebanon and withdraw from its occupation of the south. It is determined to reignite a regional […]
That is not investigation; it is intimidation wearing an investigation’s clothes — a counter-terror agency turned into a tool against dissent. Groundxero | June 22, 2026 At 4.30 in the morning on 18 June, a dozen National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers walked into the south Kolkata flat of Jhelum Roy — a scholar, […]
A viral comedy show clip with the “₹370 biryani” remarks has now turned into a police case. What followed was called a “controversy.” It actually should be called a revelation. It is not coincidental that we are living through this biryani moment in a political climate where rape threats are a standard tool of silencing […]
The wave of demolition and eviction drives that has swept across West Bengal in the aftermath of the BJP seizing power in 2026 Assembly elections has triggered widespread outrage and anxiety among workers, hawkers, slum residents and other vulnerable sections of society. While the BJP-led state government has defended these actions as measures against “illegal […]
Trump’s catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring the suffering and immiseration of millions. CHRIS HEDGES America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan […]
The question before Bengal today is therefore not whether the past can be restored. It cannot. The question is whether a new democratic and emancipatory political imagination can emerge from the ruins of the old order before majoritarian nationalism succeeds in permanently reshaping the social and moral landscape of the state. For more detail on […]
America’s Suicide Pact America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire. Chris Hedges May 08, 2026 Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, […]
(This article does not seek to satisfy those in search of arguments for revolutionary transformation. While I hold that the existing system is deeply flawed, particularly in a subcontinent as complex as India, the article’s scope is deliberately limited. It confines itself to examining the question of federalism within India’s electoral framework, and nothing beyond.) […]
আন্দোলন ছিল অনিবার্য। স্বতঃস্ফূর্ত বিক্ষোভই ছিল নিয়তি। কোনও পার্টি/সংগঠন/ইউনিয়নের অনুপস্থিতিতে আন্দোলনের মুখ্য চরিত্র এমনটাই হওয়া স্বাভাবিক। প্রতিবাদ/প্রতিরোধহীন শোষনে ছিবড়ে হয়ে যাওয়া শ্রমিকদের পক্ষে কোনও না কোনও সময়ে প্রত্যাঘাত করাই ছিল অত্যন্ত স্বাভাবিক ঘটনা। কৌশিক দেশে চলমান শ্রমিক আন্দোলন বা বিক্ষোভ এক ঐতিহাসিক ঘটনা। ভারতবর্ষে উত্তাল চল্লিশের দশকেও এমন বিস্তৃত ভূখন্ডে শ্রমিকদের আন্দোলন দেখা […]
(This article does not seek to satisfy those in search of arguments for revolutionary transformation. While I hold that the existing system is deeply flawed, particularly in a subcontinent as complex as India, the article’s scope is deliberately limited. It confines itself to examining the question of federalism within India’s electoral framework, and nothing beyond.) […]
ট্রাম্পেশ্বর ও নন-বায়োলজিকালদের নিয়ে যে কাল্ট ফিগার তৈরির নিরন্তর এবং সচেতন পরিকল্পনা হয়েছিল, তা নিয়ে লেখাজোখাও হয়েছে। কিন্তু ওই যে — তাঁরা নগ্ন, কাজেই ধরা পড়ার লজ্জাহীন। এবং হাতেগোনা কয়েক জনের ওইসব শিক্ষা, সংস্কৃতি, যুক্তিবাদ ও নৈতিকতার পুঁথিগুলো স্রেফ এখানে অ্যাকাডেমিক ইন্টারেস্ট। এতে এদের কিচ্ছু এসে যায় না। শুভদীপ মৈত্র উলঙ্গ রাজা কবিতাটা […]
Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders. CHRIS HEDGES APR 20, 2026 During the two years I spent writing “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America,” I encountered numerous mini-Trumps. These self-proclaimed pastors — very few had any formal religious training — […]
Greater Israel, beyond the infrastructure of occupation, requires a geography that reflects its claims as though they were already there, rendering the villages as invisible as to make them ready to be claimed, and the Apple and Google digital maps provide exactly the instrument to do so. April 19, 2026 by Jwan Zreiq Apple […]
এটাই একভাবে হিন্দুরাষ্ট্র তৈরির নীল ছকের ভিত্তি। একদিক থেকে এই বে-নাগরিকীকরণ প্রক্রিয়ার ভেতর দিয়ে তৈরি করা হচ্ছে এমন একটি জনগোষ্ঠী, যাদের জীবন অতিমাত্রায় অসুরক্ষিত। এবং, যেহেতু অসুরক্ষিত, তাই দুর্বল। আর কে না জানে, অধিকারবিহীন দুর্বল মানুষের পক্ষে প্রতিবাদ করা অতো সহজ নয়? আজ আদালতের চরিত্র নিরপেক্ষ নয়, বরং আগাপাশতলা রাজনৈতিক। একই কথা খাটে নির্বাচন কমিশন […]
The massacre at a school in the city of Minab is not an isolated case, but rather an example of broader brutality and also a window into how the US systematically downplays civilian death and suffering. By Medea Benjamin | Nicolas J.S. Davies Via Common Dreams After the breakdown of talks in Pakistan, the ceasefire […]