The Journalist Who Asked Modi a Question
I met Helle Lyng Svendsen in Oslo. She was clear about what journalists ought to do. I was also struck by how open and accountable she had been, responding to even hostile questions thrown at her.
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The Social Cost of AI / Data Centres – 2 Articles
‛Mad Rush for AI/ Data Centres in India: At What Social Cost?’: Data centres are known to be big guzzlers of water and electricity. 200 GW of data center capacity will annually consume 1,200 Twh of electricity and more than 1000 million cubic meters of water. Also: ‛The Hidden Water Cost of AI in a Thirsty India’.
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Israel’s Continuing War to Destroy Gaza Behind the Façade of a Ceasefire – 2 Articles
‛Gaza: A Meditation on Spirit and Survival’: The images from Gaza reveal a desolate landscape beyond comprehension: an endless, treeless expanse buried beneath millions of tons of concrete and rebar, whose suffocating scale overwhelms the conscience. Also: ‛Israeli Soldiers Describe Continued Targeted Killings of Palestinians in Gaza’.
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The Chess Game of Justice
On 25 March 2026, the United Nations passed a Ghanaian-led resolution naming the transatlantic slave trade a crime against humanity. Moving the resolution was a strategic masterstroke that forced the Global North to defend the capitalist foundations of its historical wealth, exposing in the process a profound phase of moral fragmentation within the West.
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The Trillion-Dollar Opportunity Cost of the American Empire
Across the United States, politicians routinely claim there is no money for universal healthcare, affordable housing, modern infrastructure, debt-free education or social welfare programmes needed to address poverty, unemployment and growing insecurity. Yet, when it comes to war, resources seem virtually unlimited.
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The Shield of the Americas Exposed: Fascism’s New Face in the Americas
A counter revolution is consolidating itself in the Americas—firing drones and missiles at farmers and fishermen, plotting internal destabilization campaigns against insubordinate governments, and manufacturing lies and fever dreams about some bullshit they’re calling narcoterrorism.
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What Claudia Sheinbaum Has Achieved for Mexico
In less than two years, Mexico’s first woman president has instituted numerous social welfare improvements, while her rhetoric on foreign policy consistently supports Global South nations such as Cuba and Venezuela, as they face barbaric assault from the world’s hegemon, the USA.
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A Great Leap into Reality: Venezuela Today
Nobody, inside Venezuela or abroad, possesses a definitive answer to the central question looming over all of us: How can the anti-imperialist—and ultimately socialist—project initiated in 1999 in Venezuela continue advancing under conditions of U.S. imperialism’s expanded military capacity and its new willingness to cross former red lines in the region?
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Ebola: People of Congo Paying the Price of Imperialist Loot – 2 Articles
‛Congo’s Cobalt Feeds Big Tech. Its People Face Ebola’: The people of Congo and Uganda are paying the price for what was done to their countries. Not by nature—but by imperialist powers, banks, mining monopolies, drug companies and the capitalist governments that serve them. Also: ‛Ebola and Imperialism’.
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Asim Munir’s Madness Is Destroying Kashmir
The latest crackdown in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir has stripped away any pretence that the inhabitants of “Azad” Kashmir possess any autonomy or agency. With one brutal stroke, the Pakistani military has demonstrated that the region is no different from the rest of Pakistan, where dissent is met with bullets, brutality, and no dialogue.
