Gender conflict has continued, subtly but powerfully, to shape voter behaviour, campaign strategies and the national debate about who is to blame for the lack of opportunities in South Korea for young men. Ming Gao, Lund University and Joanna Elfving-Hwang, Curtin University Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung has won South Korea’s snap presidential election […]
The Arab monarchs’ hobnobbing with the backers of genocide in Gaza represents not only a cruel blow to the Palestinian people but also a profound insult to the ordinary citizens of the Arab. By Sushovan Dhar Groundxero | June 03, 2025 As Israel’s war on Palestine continues to inflict suffering on Gaza, Arab monarchies busied themselves […]
The way out of neoliberal globalization is by developing a new globalization that is democratic and free from the destructive tendencies of capitalist accumulation. By C.J. Polychroniou 24 May, 2025 Common Dreams The left is in shambles everywhere while hard-right and far-right parties are riding high in polls across the world. I contend that […]
Not only does such symbolism trivialize the horrors of what unfolded in Bhagalpur but glorifies the action as an acceptable ‘solution’. by Ankita Mahalanobish Via Alt News On May 23, two days after security forces killed several Maoists in Chhattisgarh, the X handle of BJP Karnataka (@BJP4Karnataka) posted an animated image of Union home minister Amit Shah with […]
Whether this moment of political flux leads to real transformation or yet another cycle of disillusionment will depend on how boldly — and how sustainably— the interim government and new actors like the NCP act. And they must not draw out the process of transition for too long. By Intifar Chowdhury, Flinders University Last […]
“So, let this hollow state — built on lies — hear us clearly: Baloch women are not part of this struggle by coincidence. We are here with purpose, with full awareness. We are not just victims. We are the resistance.” — Gulzadi Baloch wrote in a letter from inside her cell in Huda Jail. by […]
The genocide in Gaza is not an anomaly. It illustrates something fundamental about human nature and is a terrifying harbinger of where the world is headed. CHRIS HEDGES May 18, 2025 CAIRO, Egypt — It is 200 miles from where I am in Cairo to the Rafah border crossing into Gaza. Parked […]
Who would benefit from an all-out war in the Middle East? The same corporations benefiting from the conflict to date: a long list topped by Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, and RTX (formerly Raytheon and United Technologies). By Alix Underwood May 11, 2025 Common Dreams Six months ago, a United Nations Special Committee found that […]
A robust feminist politics that resolutely says no to this war remains the need of the hour. At the same time, such a rejection of war-mongering, that predicates itself both on Islamophobia and a deeply problematic patriarchal politics, must stand on a larger rejection of the sindoor symbolism and politics in everyday life. Yet, embracing […]
The corporate coup d’état and collapse of American democracy began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains. CHRIS HEDGES May 3 The Christian fascists and oligarchs gleefully handing Donald Trump his sharpie and executive orders are not making war on the deep state, the radical left or to protect us […]
Carney’s election offers new momentum for Canada-EU collaboration. His “blue liberalism” brings Canada ideologically closer to Europe’s current leadership — from Emmanuel Macron’s centrist France to the Christian Democratic Union-led coalition in Germany — providing fertile ground for pragmatic co-operation. Katerina Sviderska, University of Cambridge and Leandre Benoit, University of Oxford Just months […]
Peace can never emerge from the barrel of a gun. Embrace the Kashmiri people and talk to them. There is no other way. Groundxero | April 29, 2025 By Himanshu Kumar Do you know Parveena Ahangar? “Ahangar” means someone who forges iron — a blacksmith. Parveena Ahangar is like iron herself — a Kashmiri mother […]
One needs to understand the difference between violence and deaths that are normalized and violence and deaths that generate nationwide outrage, whose deaths are grieved for and whose deaths are made ungrievable, which attack is seen as “terror” and which attack is legitimized and normalized through law and society. Groundxero | April 27, 2025 By Sohini […]
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 […]
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 […]