Bulletin

Articles

• Overwriting Palestine
  9 August, by Ussama Makdisi

  The most intense bombardment of a concentrated urban space in recent memory, the fastest deliberate starvation of any population in recorded history, the greatest number of journalists killed in any conflict worldwide, and the greatest number of United Nations staff slain in any period: Israel has set out to methodically obliterate every aspect of Palestinian life in Gaza, with the Lancet estimating that its war may have already left more than 186,000 dead. As part of this ten-month rampage, (…)

• India’s ‘Sheikh Hasina Problem’ is Not Going Away Easily
  23 August, by Ahmede Hussain

  For one and a half decades, India unabashedly supported Sheikh Hasina’s brutal and dictatorial regime. The 20-day-long violent uprising that forced her to flee to India in a military cargo plane, witnessed the death of 542 people in 20 days. Year after year, South Block turned a blind eye to Hasina’s kleptocratic government that helped its cronies syphon an estimated $150 billion out of the country. The amount is double the size of Bangladesh’s national budget.
  India refused to hedge its (…)

• Dreaming of Downfall
  16 August, by Richard Seymour

  What just happened? For almost a week, towns and cities across England and Northern Ireland were in the grip of pogromist reaction. In Hull, Sunderland, Rotherham, Liverpool, Aldershot, Leeds, Middlesborough, Tamworth, Belfast, Bolton, Stoke-on-Trent, Doncaster and Manchester, networked mobs of fascoid agitators and disorganized racists were thrilled by their own exuberant violence. In Rotherham, they set fire to a Holiday Inn hotel housing asylum seekers. In Middlesborough, they blocked (…)

• Sudanese Female Activists Provide Beacon in Fog of War
  7 August, by Liemia Eljaili Abubakr

  In Sudan, after a whole year of war, women human rights defenders in Sudan continue to try and help those who are suffering.
  Women human rights defenders with the Support Sudan Campaign lost everything, but they did not lose their determination to help others.
  A number of them have shared their stories over the past year, reflecting the magnitude of the tragedy caused by the Sudan war: poverty, death, hunger, disease, displacement, and asylum.
  Shelling and death in Khartoum
  Wassal (…)

• Lessons of Political Arrogance in Dhaka Need to be Heeded in New Delhi
  5 August, by Harish Khare

  It could just be a coincidence. Barely twenty-four hours before Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was made to flee from Dacca, India’s Home Minister was making a statement of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s inescapable durability beyond 2029. Just as Sheikh Hasina had come to entertain notions of indispensability, the Prime Minister’s right-hand man appears to have convinced himself – and probably his boss—of Narendra Modi’s indispensability.
  On Sunday, Amit Shah was telling an (…)