The Iran war, gas prices and Trump’s miscalculations led to one of the most decisive repudiations of an American president By Josh Dawsey Alex Leary and Lindsay Wise In mid-February, one of President Trump’s economic advisers arrived at the Oval Office with charts showing how the administration’s policies might be making America great again. Household… Read More Hubris -> Nemesis: How Trump Lost the Midterms
In an in-depth interview with the ECPS, Dr. Subir Sinha, Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute, examines how India’s emerging Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is challenging Narendra Modi’s authoritarian-populist hegemony. Situating youth mobilization within broader crises of unemployment, neoliberal restructuring, electoral legitimacy, and Hindu majoritarianism, Dr. Sinha argues that Modi’s strategies for containing generational… Read More Dr. Subir Sinha: India’s Youth Anger Is Unraveling Modi’s Authoritarian Populism
Modi posted: “MLC elections in 28 seats across four big states — Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Karnataka. Elections held using ballot papers. Guess how many seats Congress won?” A monocled emoji at the end of the post emphasised his sarcasm suggesting that this was the obvious conclusion after a close examination of the results.… Read More PM, Shah Rush To Discredit INDIA Vote-theft Campaign
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris Dozens of high schools across France were blockaded again on Monday as the government braced for another tense week of protests over school conditions and the high cost of living. The protests come amid warnings that weeks without lessons are putting some pupils’ school year and final exams at risk. As… Read More French pupils resume school blockades as country braces for more protests
NB: This is a shameless assault on the most fundamental guarantee of the Indian Constitution, and if the Supreme Court cannot see it as such, we are free to draw the most sinister conclusion. This is the centenary of the RSS; and this, is the clearest evidence of what they wish for as their utopia.… Read More Special Intensive Revision (SIR, 2025-26) is a brazen assault on India’s universal adult franchise
Pierre P Bairin, Sophie Tanno Cost-of-living protests that began in France have spread to Germany where demonstrations to coincide with Halloween took place on Saturday, with tens of thousands of people turning out across the country. The new German youth-led movement dubbed “Gen Z has got this!” protested against the high cost of living, underfunded… Read More Gen Z protests spread to Germany as hundreds of thousands march again in France
Jack Bantock Nicknames for crops can be highly complimentary. Cotton, for example, has basked in its “White Gold” reputation since the 19th century, while wheat rules across many regions as the “King of Cereals.” As monikers go, though, few can match the level of flattery bestowed upon “the tree against hunger,” the “banana on steroids”… Read More ‘The tree against hunger’ could feed millions. So why is it only cultivated in one place?
“We, the workers in the ports, know very well that without us nothing moves. Without our hands, containers remain still, ships are not loaded, the war machines are blocked.” Jake Johnson Common Dreams Dockworkers in more than 20 countries—from France to India to Greece—are withholding their labor on Friday to demand an end to Israel’s… Read More With ‘Largest Coordinated Port Action Ever,’ Dockworkers in 22 Countries Strike Against Gaza Genocide
http://www.reporters-collective.in Fake Voters in thousands were injected into the Pilibhit voter roll in Uttar Pradesh. When caught, the ECI accepted the fraud.We found, it hasn’t yet removed all the fake voters and brought back the legitimate citizens to the roll. In 55 booths of Pilibhit we had found 2,691 fake voters. When we rechecked yesterday… Read More The All-India Fake Voter Playbook
With 180,000 eligible voters, Bedouin turnout was key in Palestinian-led parties winning unprecedented 19 seats Emma Graham-Harrison in Azzarnug Last year, Umm Khaled Fatoum returned from volunteering in a Jewish-Arab support centre for victims of war to find bulldozers tearing into her son’s house in the Bedouin village of Azzarnug. The demolition crew, who arrived… Read More Bedouin women secure success for Arab parties in Israeli election
