Olga Cherevko grew up on military bases in Siberia, belonged to a Christian cult in the U.S. and was sent by the UN to some of the toughest places in the world. None of that prepared her for what she saw in Gaza Nir Hasson A crushed ambulance outside a Gaza hospital, photographed by Cherevko.… Read More Olga Cherevko Showed the World What’s Happening in Gaza. Israel Won’t Let Her Return
NB: Adam Tooze is a brilliant historian, capable of weaving together different elements of global events. including anti-colonial rebellions, ideological impulses of rulers and ruled alike, and the behaviour of financial markets as a means of understanding complex geopolitical phenomena like the rise to preeminence of the American polity during and after the Great War… Read More The crisis whisperer: how Adam Tooze makes sense of our bewildering age
Fascist movements have always understood aesthetics as pedagogy—as a way of training people to feel power before they are allowed to think about it. It would be easy to dismiss (Trump) as a narcissistic clown. That would be a mistake. He is a demagogue who despises democracy, targets people of color, revels in violence, and… Read More Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back Matching Fascist Politics
NB: Not for decades has there been an honest and statesmanlike speech by a political leader. This one is one such, and is an exposure of the gruesome hypocrisy of those who claim to lead the world, not least our very own self-proclaimed vishwagurus and performance artists. The English poet A. E. Housman (1859-1936) remarked… Read More Davos 2026: Special address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada / कनाडा के PM ने खोल दी सबकी पोल, पश्चिम के देशों को ही लताड़ा, दुनिया भर में है चर्चा
GAZA casualties, live statistics One strategically placed, massive lump of ice in the Arctic has exposed the leaders of the countries of Western Europe, or the European Union, for the cynical hypocrites, racists, spineless transactionalists and colonists that they really are. Avay Shukla Folks who know me are aware that I am no diplomat; the… Read More EUROPE SHOULD REMEMBER THAT BEFORE GREENLAND THERE WAS – AND IS – A GAZA
Economic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them Ingrid Robeyns This week, hundreds of government leaders, heads of state, and business executives are gathering at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos. They will be discussing solutions to… Read More In Davos, the rich talk about ‘global threats’. But they’re silent about the biggest of them all
Lessons from the first year of Donald Trump’s second term The West’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal razing of Gaza and the impunity with which an allegedly isolationist Trump abducted Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, expropriated its oil, bombed Iran, and threatened to annex Greenland and Canada has, it’s fair to say, made international law a disreputable… Read More Moment of reckoning
Since independence, the Republic of Congo has been suffering from ethnic strife, armed rebellions and military interventions by neighbouring countries. The presence of valuable minerals has added fuel to the strife which has taken millions of lives. Can peace ever come to this troubled nation? D.J. Ravindran The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly… Read More Congo: A Tragedy in Many Parts Over Many Decades
Behind today’s headlines is a history of imperial outrage—including a Philadelphia contract man who wreaked havoc in early 20th century Venezuela and helped oust a president. Greg Grandin Before Nicolás Maduro and Hugo Chávez, there was Cipriano Castro. Before Donald Trump, there was Theodore Roosevelt. And before petroleum, there was asphalt pitch. The following excerpt… Read More Tar Wars
Anti-regime pictures Hundreds of gunshot eye injuries found in one Iranian hospital amid brutal crackdown on protests Maryam Namazie A new nationwide wave of protest has spread across Iran since 28 December 2025. Initially triggered by acute economic collapse (currency freefall, sharp price rises for basic necessities, and renewed scarcity), it has rapidly become a… Read More Neither turban nor crown, but Woman, Life, Freedom
After the truth-shower 