Governments that mutely line up behind the US as it prosecutes a sinister, illegal war that threatens to destroy their citizens’ ability to cook and eat aren’t rational actors, they are lemmings… Narendra Modi and his partymen are attracted to Israel’s fanatical, anti-Muslim Zionism because it has achieved the disenfranchisement and apartheid that Hindutva aspires… Read More A grey silence
I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East.. It is incomprehensible that a UN entity has been allowed to be crushed as Unrwa has, in violation of international law, with total impunity, and with… Read More Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing
NB: ‘Lebensraum’ as national policy; racism, genocidal complicity amongst vast sections of the Western population; total contempt for both morality and international law; limitless expansion of territory by force; the politics of permanent emergency (as per Carl Schmitt); the embrace of bloodlust and cruelty as markers of virtue rather than emblems of evil – all… Read More Tearing up the map
Alfred W. McCoy ( Tomdispatch.com ) – In the first chapter of his 1874 novel The Gilded Age, Mark Twain offered a telling observation about the connection between past and present: “History never repeats itself, but the… present often seems to be constructed out of the broken fragments of antique legends.” Among the “antique legends” most helpful in… Read More Imperial Decline in the Straits of Hormuz
Five soldiers were indicted over alleged violent abuse and rape of Palestinian man at detention centre in 2024. Israel’s military attorney general just gave his soldiers licence to rape, so long as the victim is Palestinian. “By abandoning the charges, the Israeli military has made clear that those who engage in the torture of Palestinians… Read More Israeli military drops charges against soldiers accused of Gaza detainee abuse
Defence analyst says torpedo strike is a ‘humiliation’ for Modi’s government that disregarded a US defence partner Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Dubai and Aanya Wipulasena in Colombo The distress call came in to Sri Lanka’s maritime rescue coordination centre just after 5am. The ship in trouble, they determined, was well within Sri Lanka’s obligation for rescue, being… Read More ‘Bit of treachery’: US attack on IRIS Dena undermines Indian security ties
NB: These are the kinds of bestial personality spawned by Zionism: monsters devoid of the slightest empathy for their fellow human beings. And Israel is the lawless state which has been funded, armed and protected by Western establishments for decades, aided and abetted by their Arab puppets. There will be no going back: the hypocrtical… Read More As a Palestinian Father Struggled to Save One Son, a Uniformed Settler Shot His Other Son, Too
By Gautam Bhatia EQUATOR March 14, 2026 Many years ago, in a Western university that shall remain nameless, I was prescribed an academic article that compared approaches to freedom of expression in the US and Europe. The principle governing constitutional free speech doctrine in the United States, the article grandly proclaimed, was that of “liberty”.… Read More Germany’s erosion of constitutional dignity
The Trump administration is receiving pushback for its celebratory tone in describing the US strikes in Iran. In recent interviews, the president joked that it is ‘more fun’ to sink Iranian warships than to seize them, while the defense secretary boasted that ‘we are punching [the Iranians] while they’re down, which is exactly how it… Read More Trump team treating Iran war as spectacle
Golestan Palace in Tehran, a world heritage site, and buildings in historic city of Isfahan harmed, despite Unesco sending coordinates Julian Borger and Deepa Parent The governor of the historic Iranian city of Isfahan has accused the US and Israel of a “declaration of war on a civilization” as heritage sites across the country suffer… Read More Dismay as ancient heritage sites across Iran damaged in US-Israel bombing
After the truth-shower 