In deference

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

Migration, War, and the Dirty Work of Empire

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

Mainstream, Jun 12, 2026

In this issue: For the US, Trade, QUAD matters more than human rights in India | John Dayal Precarity of Border-Crossing People in West Bengal | Arup Kumar Sen Kerala’s Governance Challenge | A. M. Jose and Jos Chathukulam The Protest in Sijimali in Odisha | Suranjita Ray India-USA Interim Trade Deal, 2026: Impact on Agriculture & Farmers Welfare |… Read More Mainstream, Jun 12, 2026

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?

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?

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

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

Dreams of a Maoist India

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

Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank

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