India’s Political Prisoners: How Modi Cracks Down on Dissent
In the ten years Narenda Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has held power, Modi has presided over an evisceration of democratic rights in India. He has institutionalized emergency laws within the Constitution, enabling the government to “unilaterally designate anyone as a terrorist without any proof.” Suchitra Vijayan, author of How Long Can the […]
Iran Has a New ‘Reformist’ President. Will He Support the ‘Axis of Resistance’?
Iranian voters just elected heart surgeon and reformist Masoud Pezeshkian as their next president, following President Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash. Pezeshkian, representing Iran’s Reform Front, campaigned on domestic reform pledges while affirming Iran’s enduring support for the Lebanese resistance movement. What implications does Pezeshkian’s election hold for Iran, the broader region, and the […]
186,000 Dead: Why Netanyahu Is Hellbent on ‘Total Erasure’ of Gaza with Omar Baddar
The Lancet, one of the world’s most prestigious medical journals, estimated that the real death toll in Gaza is at least 186,000 Palestinians – tens of thousands more than the Gaza Health Ministry has accounted for. Israel continues to bombard civilian infrastructure and block aid to the besieged territory, resulting in countless more deaths from […]
Kenya’s Youth Are Rising Up Against U.S.-IMF Control and Aren’t Backing Down
The Kenyan people successfully defeated a deeply unpopular finance bill that threatened to worsen Kenya’s already-dire poverty and inflation. After massive protests that turned violent, President William Ruto withdrew the bill that the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were imposing, which would have dealt the most intense austerity policies in Kenya’s history. To […]
Marcus Garvey, Mao Tse-Tung and Gandhi
Notes on Black-Asian Solidarity in times of Cold War politics and neoliberal fragmentation
South Africa at a turning point? How the 2024 elections will shape the future
Will South Africa move towards eliminating poverty and stake out its own ground in a multipolar world order? Or regress towards a role as a node for the West in Africa?
Eritrea: The Story You Don’t Hear
Eritrea is demonized for not conforming to the Washington Consensus at home and abroad. Criticisms in the Western media are typically decontextualized, sometimes fabricated, and almost always deployed to build a regime change narrative. Any statement contrary to that narrative, no matter how factual, is met with a barrage of attacks. Anything other than “Eritrea […]
Blood Money: War Industry Sends Huge Sums to Congress Members Who Vote to Buy Their Weapons
The following is a lightly edited transcription from The Punch Out with Eugene Puryear, a daily news podcast that comes out Monday through Friday, 5pm ET. Subscribe here. We reported to you earlier this month about how the U.S. House of Representatives passed their $839 billion war budget, which now heads to the Senate. In […]