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Humanity is facing its greatest existential threat ever with climate change and resource depletion. This is not a crisis waiting to happen in the future, but it is already here and manifests itself in the many resource wars going on in several parts of the world, rising food and fuel prices, growing hunger, natural calamities of horrifying proportions, water scarcity, debt crisis, unemployment, social tensions among communities, growing human rights violations and unprecedented ecological degradation. Unless we take urgent action to change the way we live, trashing our only home, this beautiful planet earth, this crisis has the potential to wipe out the entire humanity and a majority of the other species from the face of this earth. Source
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The political architecture that sustained the state of Israel for over seven decades was built on three foundational pillars: absolute regional military dominance, uninterrupted Western diplomatic shielding, and an economic engine insulated from the moral and political realities of perpetual occupation. Today, that foundation is visibly fracturing under the weight of an unprecedented, multi-front systemic crisis.
Israel Violated Gaza Ceasefire Over 5,140 Times, Killing 1,421: Palestinian Authorities
Gaza (QNN)- Israeli forces have killed more than 1,420 Palestinians in Gaza since the US-backed ceasefire agreement took effect on October 10, 2025. During the same period, Israel has committed more than 5,140 ceasefire violations, involving attacks targeting Palestinians across the besieged Strip while Israeli forces have also continued to expand areas under their control and restrict the entry of essential aid.
US Technologies Shouldn’t Be Used in Sudan War by the UAE
Image by Jklmejdkdldk/Wikimediacommons, in public domain In April 2023, the war broke out in Sudan between the national army and the Rapid Support Forces militia; its impact has been devastating on so many levels. This war, however, is also prolonged by external actors, mainly the UAE.
For 6,000 years humanity controlled water. Climate change is changing the equation
The defining signature of the past 6,000 years of human civilization is the domestication of the hydrosphere—capturing, damming, canalizing, reorienting, propertizing, privatizing, consuming, profiting from, depleting, and poisoning it. From ancient hydraulic civilizations to the hydro-powered superdams, reservoirs, canals, and ports of the 21st century, water has been repurposed for humanity, often at the expense of millions of other species that depend on it.
Returning to a shattered Jabaliya, my childhood sanctuary
People walking through the mass destruction that Israel has wrought on Jabaliya refugee camp, 18 January 2026. (Omar Ashtawy/APA images) If I could fly, the first place I would go would be Jabaliya camp. Jabaliya was like a mother to me and my family. It was the place where I was born and where I spent my holidays as a child. My grandfather’s house, a three-story home with its small, cozy rooms and a beautiful roof terrace was at the heart of those memories.
Israel turns Gaza into largest ghetto in modern history, killing residents one after another as three-year genocide continues
The yellow block that marks the invisible Israeli “yellow line” east of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip. (Ramzi Abu Amer/APA images) Geneva – Israel has transformed the Gaza Strip from the world’s largest ‘open-air prison’ into the largest ‘ghetto’ in history, with more than two million Palestinians isolated under the weight of an unprecedented double blockade.
The Walls Closing Around Indian Democracy
The Modi government is panicking as people everywhere, disgusted with its falsehoods and frauds, are freely venting their objections to its travesty of constitutional government. Two events or trends are today capturing popular imagination: the shenanigans surrounding Gyanesh Kumar’s sordid but fateful antics, and the ominous popular interest in the activities of a meteoric cockroach brand Janata Party.
From Caste to Code: Will AI Democratize Knowledge in India?
Millions of people now ask ChatGPT and Gemini questions they once searched for on Google, discussed with teachers, or researched through books and articles. In India, where access to knowledge has historically been shaped by caste hierarchies, this shift raises a deeper question: does artificial intelligence democratize knowledge, or merely reorganize its control?
ALIFA extends solidarity to the week-long protest by thousands of women students across Delhi campuses resisting sexual violence
30th Sep, 2026: All-India Feminist Alliance (ALIFA) expresses deep concern at the rising instances of rape and sexual violence in Delhi and across the country. We are enraged by the institutional inaction, complicity and sanction of violence against women in many of these cases. We salute the hundreds of young college-going women of Delhi, who have risen in protest against this culture of violence, lack of safety and accountability.
Four Pillars, One Question: Is India Heading for Anarchy or Awakening?
Every democracy rests on an unwritten promise: if one institution fails, another will catch the fall. The legislature checks the executive, the judiciary checks both, the press informs the citizen, and the citizen votes. The uncomfortable question India now asks itself is what happens when each pillar is only partly doing its job at the same moment. The Legislature: from debate to arithmetic. Parliament was meant to be the nation’s argument with itself.