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  18 May, by Vinod Mubayi

  Mad King Trump Refuses to Quit, Netanyahu Compounds the Folly and Modi Silently Swallows Insults

  Analysts of the US-Israeli unprovoked and blatantly illegal attack on Iran on Feb 28, while US-Iranian negotiations brokered by Oman were ongoing, have concluded that the assault has failed to achieve any of its objectives. Iran, despite suffering significant losses, is now acknowledged to be in a stronger position compared to the assailants as its closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to (…)
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  18 May, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Populism and the Erosion of the Public Sphere

  Robert A. Heinlein, an American novelist and political thinker, argues that political labels such as democrat, communist, fascist, liberal, or conservative are not fundamental criteria for distinguishing citizens politically; rather, humanity is divided between those who seek to dominate others and those who do not. This reduction of political life to a fundamental asymmetry of domination (…)
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  19 April, by Anand Teltumbde

  Annihilation of Caste: Why and How

  An edited transcript of the online speech delivered on 17 April 2026 at the seminar on Brahmanization at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India Long ago, while speaking about the annihilation of caste to the audience like you, I put forth my view in the form of a paradox: Annihilation of Caste is not possible without a revolution. And revolution is not possible without the Annihilation of (…)
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  18 April, by Sankha Subhra Biswas

  Cost Without Consent: The Political Economy of Permanent War

  War, in its official presentation, is a collective sacrifice—an inevitable but necessary cost imposed on the present to secure the future. In practice, the American experience since 1950 suggests something closer to a permanent fiscal regime, in which costs are socialised, profits are privatised, and accountability is systematically displaced. The question is no longer whether the United (…)
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  6 April, by Hagai El-Ad

  Apartheid, Waiting for Ethnic Cleansing: Israel’s ’Only Remaining Problem’

  A population that has been displaced, which has had its homes and sources of livelihood destroyed, becomes more vulnerable to ethnic cleansing at the ’right’ time. To put it succinctly, by every possible measure but one (and a tiny bit more) – the Zionist victory over the Palestinians is total. Political, military and economic power is entirely in our hands. So too is the control over (…)
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  6 April, by Vinod Mubayi

  The Ongoing Illegal War on Iran: Trump-Netanyahu Threaten Bigger War Crimes While Modi Continues To Obfuscate Its Criminality

  The illegal Israel-US war on Iran now grinds on to a second month of conflict with no clear end in sight. Trump’s dream of doing a Venezuela-type operation has proved to be an illusion as Iran has shown itself to be a more formidable opponent. As this editorial is being written (April 5, 2026), Trump has issued an obscenity laced post on his Truth Social account threatening to commit bigger (…)
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  3 April, by Bill Fletcher Jr

  Demonstrations and Demographics

  In the aftermath of the “No Kings Day” demonstrations of March 28th, there has been renewed interest—and concern—that in many cities the participation of people of color generally, and Black people specifically, has been limited. To my knowledge, no one has done any study on this, so we are forced to rely on a combination of anecdotal information and historical analysis and patterns. What (…)
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  2 April, by Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya

  Refusing to Be Silenced: Palestine and Education in the UK

  How UK teachers are resisting the repression of Palestine solidarity in classrooms. Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza just over two years ago, the repression of any support for Palestine has been rampant across UK institutions including workplaces and universities. Schools are no exception. In 2023, CAGE International handled 118 cases of Palestine-based repression in schools (…)
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  30 March, by Henry A. Giroux

  MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy

  The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being restructured by them. The killings of Rachel Good and Alex Pretti are not aberrations or tragic mistakes; they belong to a longer and darker history that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) once named with chilling precision. In earlier periods of (…)
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  27 March, by Messaoud Romdhani

  How Populism Normalises Dehumanisation

  According to sociologists, dehumanisation rarely begins with physical violence. It often emerges gradually through political and cultural narratives that redefine difference as a threat and exclude certain groups from the “moral community”. As contemporary populist rhetoric increasingly frames political disagreement in existential terms, the boundary between legitimate democratic contestation (…)