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The humanitarian paradigm is as deadly as genocide

Humanitarian aid is fast becoming concerned with its own image, trapped as it is by donor funding of the same countries complicit in genocide.   by Ramona Wadi   As Israel omits Palestinians from Gaza in its depraved genocide, let the international community omit all its hypocritical rhetoric of “concern”, “deeply disturbed”, “deplores” and “catastrophic”. The […]


Hamas Succeeded In Exposing The True Face Of The Empire

Our rulers may succeed in eliminating the Palestinians as a people, but one thing they will never be able to do is put those blinders back on our eyes. What has been seen cannot be unseen.   By Caitlin Johnstone   One thing October 7 did accomplish was getting Israel and its allies to show the […]


The Baloch Women: From Traditions to Resistance

The role of women in Baloch politics is not new; however, the way Baloch women are now standing at the frontlines of politics is not only remarkable and inspiring for the Baloch people but also for Pakistan and the entire region.   By DUR BIBI   Groundxero | April 6, 2025   The Balochistan region is split […]


Capitulation or Complicity? Universities and the Trump Administration

Complicity gets us far closer to a useful explanation of recent actions by campus leaders than capitulation. It’s also right in line with what we have seen from university administrations, including Columbia’s, in the recent and not so recent past. Indeed, the current era of complicity started under Biden with the draconian response to pro-Palestine protests […]


Surrendering to Authoritarianism

Liberal institutions, including universities, traditionally surrender without a fight to the dictates of autocrats. Ours are no exception.   CHRIS HEDGES March 24   I was not surprised when Columbia University’s interim president Katrina Armstrong caved to the demands of the Trump administration. She agreed to ban face masks or face coverings, prohibit protests in academic buildings and create […]


হিমালয়-লাগোয়া উত্তরবঙ্গে জমি লুটের বিরুদ্ধে সম্ভাব্য প্রতিরোধ আন্দোলনের অভিমুখে

ভারত সরকারের নীতি পরিবর্তনের সঙ্গে তাল মিলিয়ে এ রাজ্যের অর্থাৎ পশ্চিমবঙ্গ সরকারও ক্রমাগত নিজেদের বাগিচানীতি ও ভূমিনীতি বদলাচ্ছেন। ‘সামাজিক পরিকাঠামো ও পরিষেবা’র নামে জমি নিয়ে ফাটকাবাজি ও রিয়েল এস্টেটের প্রোমোটারি ব্যবসাকে আইনি বৈধতা প্রদান করা হচ্ছে।   সৌমিত্র ঘোষ March 22, 2025   হিমালয়-লাগোয়া উত্তরবঙ্গের জেলাগুলিতে গত বিশ-পঁচিশ বছর ধরে অবাধ জমিলুঠ বা জমিদখল (ল্যান্ড […]


The American Coup

Trumpism does not signify the midpoint of US imperial decline or even its late stage, it is the dumpster fire of its wreckage.   Groundxero | March 11, 2025   Chris Hedges has described Trumpism as an authoritarian cult which seeks to restore the United States to the status of a world hegemon, but whose policies are […]


Trump’s War on Education

Trump’s assault on education comes out of the playbook used by all authoritarian regimes.   CHRIS HEDGES March 11   The attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration has warned some 60 colleges that they could lose federal money if they fail to make campuses safe for Jewish students and is already pulling $400 million from Columbia University — has […]


Over 1,000 dead as Western-backed HTS regime in Syria escalates massacre of Alawites

The NATO powers and their pseudo-left advocates, who claim that Islamist jihadists hostile to basic democratic rights have led a “democratic revolution” in Syria, share responsibility for these massacres. They hailed the coming to power last December of the Islamists they had backed since 2011 in the war for regime change, in order to undermine […]


Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine

Christian extremists in America bond with Jewish extremists in Israel not over religion but a shared fascism. Fascism can only be defeated with a rival militancy — a militancy communists, anarchists and socialists in the 1930s exhibited — one that offers an alternative vision and does not compromise with despotic power.   CHRIS HEDGES March […]


Germany: Election Results and What Do They Mean

AfD has fed herself on economic challenges, anti-immigration sentiments, and growing skepticism about providing military aid to Ukraine – predicting to even do better, if the upcoming coalition will go against the people’s will of spending more money for armament and lesser for social expenditure.    By Navneet Pal Groundxero | March 10, 2025   Germany has […]


The Rise of the Right Worldwide and How to Explain It

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Western powers declared the victory of capitalism over socialism. The Western capitalist countries believed they had defeated fascism on the right and socialism on the left, assuming Western-style liberal democracy had no challenger only to sow the seeds of rightwing hooliganism, even fascism, by applying […]


An alliance based on genocide and misogyny: Pakistan and Turkey’s brotherhood

As Pakistan and the Turkish state continue to strengthen their war alliance, it is necessary that those fighting for their freedom also strengthen their alliances at the political, military and diplomatic levels.   By Members of the internationalist commune of Rojava Groundxero | Feb 23, 2025   On February 12th and 13th, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif […]


The Mafia State

First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims.   By Chris Hedges Feb 15, 2025   Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you […]


The Empire Self-Destructs

We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression.   By Chris Hedges The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of Congress, the White House and the courts, are cannibalizing the machinery of state. […]