The minister who had declared that India would continue to buy Russian oil was now content not just to comply with US embargoes but to look on as America declares open season on Indians at sea Mukul Kesavan India’s external affairs minister, S. Jaishankar, posted a statement on X days after US strikes on merchant… Read More In deference
Siyavash Shahabi Europe’s migration policy produces deniability through distance. A document leaked to Statewatch this month confirms what many have warned about for years. The European Union’s naval mission, Operation Irini, has signed a technical agreement to train and equip coastal forces in eastern Libya. The mission is also to establish a migration coordination centre… Read More Migration, War, and the Dirty Work of Empire
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The deaths of three Indian seafarers in a US strike on a commercial oil tanker has prompted public fury in India, and added new friction to an already strained phase between New Delhi and Washington. On Wednesday morning, the M/T Settebello was transiting the Sea of Oman, laden with Iranian oil, when a US aircraft… Read More Fury in India as its sailors become collateral damage in Trump’s war with Iran / 3 भारतीयों की हत्या! मोदी कर रहे धन्यवाद.. ट्रम्प के पास कौनसा सीक्रेट?
After 59 years of occupation, apartheid and Jewish terror, it’s obvious that, as with mold – plastering or a government of change will not uproot the blight without treating the root cause: racism Michael Sfard According to the human rights group B’Tselem, 24 Palestinian communities were completely uprooted and forcibly transferred from their place of… Read More A Decade of Pogroms and Jewish Terror: Welcome to the 60th Year of Occupation / In Israel’s Army, Murdering a Child Is Fine, but Having an Affair Is Reason to Be Fired
NB: Over the past two decades I have written many commementaries on Indian Maoism, of which this one carries an inverted resonance with the article below. ‘Inverted’ because had the Naxalite movement organised a non-violent mass campaign in defence of the labouring poor, it would have achieved historic successes. It is a tragedy that the… Read More Dreams of a Maoist India
The seven-month-old, Sam Fahd Abu Haikal, was in his mother’s arms when soldiers fired on family in Hebron Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem Fahd Abu Haikal shows a photo of his seven-month- old son, Sam, who was killed on Friday when Israeli soldiers fired at their car. Photograph: Mahmoud Illean/AP Israeli troops killed a seven-month-old Palestinian baby in… Read More Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank
NB: Putin is a KGB man turned Russian imperialist, a gangster and war criminal. The Russian people have had enough of war. The Russian Revolution of March 8, 1917 was a rebellion against war and for democracy. The Bolsheviks confiscated it, leading to a disastrous cycle of civil war and partisan tyranny. Its time to… Read More Is Russia’s war economy starting to crack?
Increasingly isolated president is determined to press on with Ukraine war, say well-placed sources, despite ailing economy Pjotr Sauer and Shaun Walker Vladimir Putin pulled up to a hotel in central Moscow earlier in May in a Russian-made SUV, dressed casually in jeans and a light jacket. Carrying a bouquet of flowers, he walked unhurriedly into the… Read More ‘There is profound disappointment in him’: mood in Russia turns against Putin / Russia hits Kyiv with hypersonic ballistic missile in ‘deranged’ attack
Dr. Malik’s lecture asks one of the most important questions facing the healing professions today: What happens when institutions built to recognize psychological harm learn to look away from the largest concentration of psychological injury on earth? Doctors Against Genocide invites you to join an urgent webinar This Sunday, MAY 24th, 2026 at 12PM ET This week’s webinar… Read More The Silenced Lecture & Music Against Genocide
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