Donald Trump’s unprovoked war against Iran is denaturing my country…America is already dead. The funeral will come in November, when Trump’s regime takes over the elections. These people, who have committed war crimes, and domestic crimes, and financial crimes, have nothing to lose; you do not commit crimes out in the open like that if… Read More I am ashamed to be an American
NB: The foundational idea of this country is that the genocide of Palestinians is divinely ordained. So many members of the Israeli public is also revelling in the violence. Thus has God been recast as a vampire. We are grateful to Israeli journalists and intellectuals such as Amira Haas for upholding our faith in humanity.… Read More How Israel’s Silent Majority Is Letting West Bank Palestinians Be Driven Out
NB: India’s current ruling establishment does not even have the courage to say, “we will not let you speak becuase we do not like your ideas.” They resort instead to phrasemongering about ‘technical reasons’. Indian democracy is being strangled before our eyes. DS The Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University in Mumbai has cancelled its 16th Neera… Read More SNDT University cancels lecture by feminist historian Uma Chakravarti
Lula’s Chief Advisor discusses the assault on Iran, the concept of multipolarity, and how Brazil can defend its sovereignty in an age of imperial conflict. An interview with Celso Amorim The first months of 2026 have seen a dramatic escalation of imperial violence. The United States kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, threatened to invade Greenland,… Read More A World Without Illusions
Scandal individualises corruption, creating a spectacle that redirects anger away from structural power. By Yoav Litvin After the beginning of Trump’s second term, the connections between capitalism, white supremacy and imperial domination became increasingly clear. These have been highlighted through ICE raids as modern-day slave patrols, global criminal operations such as the kidnapping of Venezuelan… Read More Epstein and the politics of distraction
By Tom Engelhardt I grew up with a vision of a possible instant apocalypse, inspired (if, under the circumstances, such a word can even be used) by the nuclear obliteration of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II. It could happen at any moment, even if you were “ducking and covering”… Read More The President of No Return on a Hothouse Planet
Farmers’ groups and trade unions have called for nationwide protests on March 10, linking the ongoing tensions in West Asia with concerns over India’s economic ties with the United States. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), along with a joint platform of central trade unions (CTUs) and several sectoral federations and associations, announced that demonstrations will… Read More Indian peasants and workers’ unions to hold nationwide protest on March 10 over West Asia conflict
As in The Iliad, the adoration of force has become “the true hero, the true subject” of our times. All the nightmares of our present are woven from its threads: genocide and oligarchy; thermobaric bombs and AI kill lists; fascist cults of masculinity and bare-knuckle machismo; masked men snatching children off American streets and narco-executions in… Read More The adoration of force
By Matt Spetalnick and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – One week into the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran that has plunged the Middle East into turmoil, President Donald Trump faces a growing list of risks and challenges that raise questions about whether he will be able to translate military successes into a clear geopolitical… Read More Reuters Analysis-One week into Iran war, the dangers for the US and Trump multiply
As missiles sailed through the sky above the UAE, some of its more vocal expats were aghast that life in the Middle East is not all low tax and M&S Olivia Ovenden ‘I’m scared. I’m actually so scared,” the Australian influencer Louise Starkey wailed last week from her Dubai balcony as what appeared to be… Read More Dubai’s influencers discover you can’t curate a war
After the truth-shower 