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Warfare Over Healthcare: It’s Necropolitics All the Way Down

Next year, an estimated five million people will be priced out of health insurance in the United States. I am one of them. When I went to renew my family’s policy, I was shocked to discover my premium had gone…

India’s New Labour Codes: Pros and Cons

After a thumping win in the Bihar Assembly elections, the BJP-led central government started to implement its hidden agendas, which it kept pending for more than five years. On Friday, November 21, 2025, it notified the four labour codes, which…

The European Union defends its “Democracy and Values” and those of Ukraine!

That is the slogan we have heard and are hearing repeated endlessly since 2022 until today The European Union defends its “Democracy and Values” and those of Ukraine! That is the slogan we have heard and are hearing repeated endlessly…

Sheikh Hasina, Death Sentence, and the Islamist Realignment of Bangladesh

By: Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury Bangladesh is standing on the edge of a precipice. For the first time since 1971, the country faces the real possibility of systemic collapse – political, institutional, and civilizational. The death sentence handed down to…

The Humanitarian Crusader: Who Has Performed Dignified Last Rites for Over 70,000 Unclaimed Bodies

Jag Mohan Thaken –India Some are born to serve the society; some to preserve the society and some to ‘swerve’ the society. But he has all these qualities. When due to the fear of the spread of Corona, everyone was…

Gaza: Hope Walks on Our Own Legs

UN Security Council Resolution 2803 represents a victory for American diplomacy, enforcing the law of the jungle. On November 17, 2025, in New York, Russia and China abstained, despite holding the power to block the resolution with their veto—a privilege…

Why did Trump and Mamdani at opposite ends of the political spectrum meet?

This week the meeting between President Trump and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani surprised both Democrats and Republicans. In fact, beyond their political and ideological positions, these two men decided to work together for the people of New York. This…

In the Company of Trees, Strangers, and an Ex-Con

by George Banez ”Oh, you weren’t even born yet the second time I went to jail,” said Tatang as he lounged on a wooden platform raised two feet above the dirt floor of the “cottage.” Made of bamboo, the cottage was…

Curtailing Punjab Powers: Is India’s Central Government Moving Towards Centralization of Authority?

The Punjab Chief Minister, Bhagwant Mann, has said that the Indian Constitution clearly demarcated areas in which the Union and the States  function to exercise their respective authority. He said that Federalism remains one of the basic pillars of our…

The UN Has Voted to Put the Occupation of Iraq in Charge of Gaza

Ah, those were the days. The UN had been blocked by a worldwide popular movement from approving of a war on Iraq. British Prime Minister Tony Blair had dragged the UK along after secretly demanding that George W. Bush first…

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