Prem Shankar Jha 05/27/2026 – 12:00 In the SIRs completed, Modi has all but succeeded in ensuring that only the relatively privileged will find it easy to cast their votes. At a press conference she held at her Kalighat residence immediately after the West Bengal assembly election results were announced on May 4, former West… Read More Why the SIR Is Narendra Modi’s Chosen Weapon to Crush Democracy
Images show Israeli military using six companies’ bulldozers and excavators to demolish south Lebanon villages William Christou in Beirut Human rights experts have alleged that six multinational construction equipment conglomerates may be aiding and abetting war crimes by supplying excavators and bulldozers to Israel, after photos and videos showed the Israeli military using their equipment to… Read More Construction equipment multinationals may be aiding Israeli war crimes, experts say
Nate Bear for Do Not Panic This will be looked back on as the year in which American power, hard and soft, entered into accelerated collapse. The World Cup is, in so many ways, a distraction from the war, mass murder and genocide inflicted by the empire and its proxies, but it has signalled the… Read More American Power Is Collapsing
“We have enemies. They are not in Palestine. They are not in Lebanon. They are not in Iran. They are here. Among us. They dictate our lives. They are traitors to our ideals. They are traitors to our country. They envision a world of slaves and masters. Gaza is only the start. There are no… Read More Chris Hedges: Iran and Gaza are Only the Beginning
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
Annihilation of Caste is not possible without a revolution. And revolution is not possible without the Annihilation of Caste Anand Teltumbde [Following is an edited and shortened transcript of the online speech delivered by the author on 17 April 2026 at the seminar on Brahmanisation at Jadavpur University] It may sound as a clever formulation,… Read More Caste Annihilation and Revolution
Bharat Bhushan The ruling BJP and its acolytes are celebrating Narendra Modi having beaten the record of Jawaharlal Nehru as “elected” prime minister across all available media. Note that to make Modi taller than Nehru, the years 1947 to 1952 have been deleted. Should Modi’s prime ministership ultimately be judged on the day it clocked 4,399 days, surpassing… Read More Longevity isn’t legacy: Modi meets Anand
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
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