The Beast’s Bargain: Arab States, Israel and the Price of ‘Peace’
When peace is demanded from the weak and defined by the strong, it ceases to be peace at all – it becomes submission disguised as justice.
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The Critical-Minerals Race is Putting the Planet at Risk
As governments weaken environmental protections to promote new mining projects, the global scramble for critical minerals is deepening social divides and harming vital ecosystems. Only reduced consumption and robust, enforceable rules can prevent long-term harm and protect basic human rights.
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Bangladesh’s Liberation Under Siege; Is This the Bangladesh We Wanted – 2 Articles
‘Bangladesh’s Liberation Under Siege’: As Bangladesh marks the victory of its 1971 liberation, the secular, socialist foundations of the nation’s birth are under assault by the convergence of US geopolitical interests with religious fundamentalism. Also: ‘Is This the Bangladesh We Wanted?’.
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Taliban’s Strategy to Indoctrinate Afghan Youth
While madrasas once played a respected role in fostering intellectual thought and Islamic scholarship, the Taliban’s use of the madrasa system represents a sharp departure from this tradition, turning education into a tool for ideological control and obedience.
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Brazil’s Massive Landless Workers’ Movement Leads the Way
After 40 years of struggle, Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement is now at nearly two million members and taking center stage in the fight for democracy and equality. It has done that by flying the most unlikely militant banner of all: organic food.
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Mali Defends Sovereignty Against a Western-Backed “Proxy War” by Terror Groups – 2 Articles
‘Mali Defends Sovereignty Against a Western-Backed “Proxy War” by Terror Groups’: As doomsaying Western media reports prophesy the fall of Mali to an Al Qaeda affiliate attacking fuel convoys, the government has re-secured supply routes and hosted Mali’s first international defense expo in a supposedly besieged capital. Also: ‘Mali Holds Firm: West Eyes New Front to Sabotage Sahel Independence’.
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The Classroom as a Battleground: Italy’s Students Rise Against Genocide
From Milan to Palermo, a wave of student occupations has swept the country, reviving a deeply rooted tradition of resistance. But this time, the banners hanging from the windows don’t just demand better school funding; they demand an end to the slaughter of Palestinians and a reckoning with the West’s complicity.
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Humans are Hardwired to Sing and Dance and it is Great for Us
Singing and chanting can have profound benefits to physical, mental and social health, with both immediate and long-term effects.
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Editorial: Lessons from the Bihar Elections
There is no doubt that India’s elections are no longer fair; there is no level playing field in the electoral contest anymore. But this, though true, is not enough to fully explain the huge losses suffered by the Congress and the INDIA alliance in the Bihar Assembly elections, and earlier, in the Maharashtra Assembly elections.
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The Fraternity Clause in the Constitution – 2 Articles
‘Dr. Ambedkar and the Fraternity Clause in the Preamble’: The ‘fraternity’ clause in the Preamble introduced by Dr. Ambedkar elicited universal and effusive praise from the Constituent Assembly. Also: ‘We, the People: Why Fraternity is the Soul of the Indian Constitution’.
