India’s ‘strategic autonomy’ looks more like opportunism, as Modi balances Israel, Iran, and the US while eroding trust in the Global South Bharat Bhushan Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second visit to Tel Aviv, at a time when United States-Iran tensions are high, sends a signal that India has chosen to plant itself firmly in the US-Israeli camp. Modi minced… Read More Modi in Israel: A diplomatic embrace that will cost India dear
Epstein wasn’t selling girls’ bodies, he was selling the experience of impunity. The end product was not the sexual act, but the assurance that there would be no consequences. That’s the supreme commodity in capitalism. The right to transgress without punishment. FULL text translated from Spanish original: “The comparison being made of Pasolini’s Salò film… Read More Epstein, impunity and collective power
Indian media estimate the deals could total $10 billion and are expected to focus on air defense systems against missiles and drones. ‘The mini-war with Pakistan last year led to a shift. India woke up’ Hagai Amit In July 2017, when Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made his first visit to Israel, he and Prime… Read More The Multibillion-dollar Arms Deals Driving India’s Modi’s Visit to Israel
The UN Special Rapporteur joins Mehdi and our Zeteo town hall audience to call out global powers and promote BDS, as a Zionist disinformation campaign tries to cancel her and get her fired Mehdi Hasan and Team Zeteo UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, joins Mehdi in a town hall with Zeteo’s paid subscribers after a disinformation campaign… Read More Francesca Albanese Talks Israel, Epstein and the ‘Orgy of Power’
Marco Rubio asks Europe to help US recolonize Global South (lecture to Munich Security Conference) BIG PROBLEMS TO DISCHARGE THE PLANNED U.S. ATTACK ON IRAN has a hitch: most of the missile-targeting crew are queuing for toilets on the lead vessel, the USS Gerald R Ford. This is not a joke. A set of emails… Read More Marco Rubio on Western civilization… (but the American empire can’t get its shit together)
Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania chooses not to claim prize at ‘Cinema for Peace’ gathering in Berlin Six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab was killed along with five relatives and two medics sent to rescue her during an Israeli tank attack in Gaza City on January 29, 2024. (Photo: family photo) Berk Kutay Gokmen The director… Read More Director of ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ declines ‘Most Valuable Film’ award
The establishment of hyperscale AI data hubs have resulted in protests in Europe –Ireland, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, and France. And it has not been a smooth ride for technology companies in Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, and Mexico. And now, they are coming in big in India… At the core of the objections… Read More When Tech Billionaires Come Marching In…
The hit podcaster, author and former GP says a failure to regulate big tech is ‘failing a generation of children’. He explains why he quit the NHS and why he wants a ban on screen-based homework Emine Saner A16-year-old boy and his mum went to see their GP, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, on a busy Monday… Read More ‘It’s the most urgent public health issue’: Dr Rangan Chatterjee on screen time, mental health – and banning social media until 18
Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century. When… Read More We can move beyond the capitalist model and save the climate – here are the first three steps
It’s chilling to watch as Trump and Netanyahu adopt the methods of regimes their countries once condemned Janine di Giovanni In Syria, where I worked during the years of Bashar al-Assad’s terror, people were often taken away to torture cells before dawn by masked men. The timing was deliberate. It disoriented them at their most… Read More After years spent documenting state terror, I know it when I see it. And I see it now in the US and Israel
After the truth-shower 