Carney’s election offers new momentum for Canada-EU collaboration. His “blue liberalism” brings Canada ideologically closer to Europe’s current leadership — from Emmanuel Macron’s centrist France to the Christian Democratic Union-led coalition in Germany — providing fertile ground for pragmatic co-operation. Katerina Sviderska, University of Cambridge and Leandre Benoit, University of Oxford Just months […]
Peace can never emerge from the barrel of a gun. Embrace the Kashmiri people and talk to them. There is no other way. Groundxero | April 29, 2025 By Himanshu Kumar Do you know Parveena Ahangar? “Ahangar” means someone who forges iron — a blacksmith. Parveena Ahangar is like iron herself — a Kashmiri mother […]
One needs to understand the difference between violence and deaths that are normalized and violence and deaths that generate nationwide outrage, whose deaths are grieved for and whose deaths are made ungrievable, which attack is seen as “terror” and which attack is legitimized and normalized through law and society. Groundxero | April 27, 2025 By Sohini […]
Humanitarian aid is fast becoming concerned with its own image, trapped as it is by donor funding of the same countries complicit in genocide. by Ramona Wadi As Israel omits Palestinians from Gaza in its depraved genocide, let the international community omit all its hypocritical rhetoric of “concern”, “deeply disturbed”, “deplores” and “catastrophic”. The […]
Our rulers may succeed in eliminating the Palestinians as a people, but one thing they will never be able to do is put those blinders back on our eyes. What has been seen cannot be unseen. By Caitlin Johnstone One thing October 7 did accomplish was getting Israel and its allies to show the […]
The role of women in Baloch politics is not new; however, the way Baloch women are now standing at the frontlines of politics is not only remarkable and inspiring for the Baloch people but also for Pakistan and the entire region. By DUR BIBI Groundxero | April 6, 2025 The Balochistan region is split […]
Complicity gets us far closer to a useful explanation of recent actions by campus leaders than capitulation. It’s also right in line with what we have seen from university administrations, including Columbia’s, in the recent and not so recent past. Indeed, the current era of complicity started under Biden with the draconian response to pro-Palestine protests […]
Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception. CHRIS HEDGES March 24 I was not surprised when Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create […]
ভারত সরকারের নীতি পরিবর্তনের সঙ্গে তাল মিলিয়ে এ রাজ্যের অর্থাৎ পশ্চিমবঙ্গ সরকারও ক্রমাগত নিজেদের বাগিচানীতি ও ভূমিনীতি বদলাচ্ছেন। ‘সামাজিক পরিকাঠামো ও পরিষেবা’র নামে জমি নিয়ে ফাটকাবাজি ও রিয়েল এস্টেটের প্রোমোটারি ব্যবসাকে আইনি বৈধতা প্রদান করা হচ্ছে। সৌমিত্র ঘোষ March 22, 2025 হিমালয়-লাগোয়া উত্তরবঙ্গের জেলাগুলিতে গত বিশ-পঁচিশ বছর ধরে অবাধ জমিলুঠ বা জমিদখল (ল্যান্ড […]
Trumpism does not signify the midpoint of US imperial decline or even its late stage, it is the dumpster fire of its wreckage. Groundxero | March 11, 2025 Chris Hedges has described Trumpism as an authoritarian cult which seeks to restore the United States to the status of a world hegemon, but whose policies are […]
Trump’s assault on education comes out of the playbook used by all authoritarian regimes. CHRIS HEDGES March 11 The attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration has warned some 60 colleges that they could lose federal money if they fail to make campuses safe for Jewish students and is already pulling $400 million from Columbia University — has […]
The NATO powers and their pseudo-left advocates, who claim that Islamist jihadists hostile to basic democratic rights have led a “democratic revolution” in Syria, share responsibility for these massacres. They hailed the coming to power last December of the Islamists they had backed since 2011 in the war for regime change, in order to undermine […]
Christian extremists in America bond with Jewish extremists in Israel not over religion but a shared fascism. Fascism can only be defeated with a rival militancy — a militancy communists, anarchists and socialists in the 1930s exhibited — one that offers an alternative vision and does not compromise with despotic power. CHRIS HEDGES March […]
AfD has fed herself on economic challenges, anti-immigration sentiments, and growing skepticism about providing military aid to Ukraine – predicting to even do better, if the upcoming coalition will go against the people’s will of spending more money for armament and lesser for social expenditure. By Navneet Pal Groundxero | March 10, 2025 Germany has […]
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Western powers declared the victory of capitalism over socialism. The Western capitalist countries believed they had defeated fascism on the right and socialism on the left, assuming Western-style liberal democracy had no challenger only to sow the seeds of rightwing hooliganism, even fascism, by applying […]