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While Americans remain transfixed by the political circus—cheering for their preferred party, jeering at the opposition, obsessing over every manufactured outrage and waiting for the next spectacle—the Surveillance State continues its steady march forward. The government is watching.

History is not so much past as vigorously present, often a scab to be irritated in fitful anger, or a romantic affectation to be cherished. When it comes to controlling trade and establishing new routes, this is particularly apt. The Hejaz Railway project, seemingly long past, is now being dusted down.

Where to turn for some sanity in this world? Certainly not to the European Union or national leaders of the morally bankrupt West. You would think it was insane enough that these fake ‘leaders’ continue to covertly – if not overtly – retain military and commercial trading ties with Israel, in full knowledge of that country’s brutal ethnic cleansing of the population of Gaza and other settlements on Palestinian soil.

There is a house in Laghouat, at the edge of the Sahara, where I learned what a wall can remember. To read this article in the following languages, click the Translate Website button below the author’s name. عربي, Hebrew, українська мова, Farsi, Español, Portugues, Русский, 中文, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, 日本語, 한국어, Türkçe, Српски. And 40 more languages.

In the summer of 2019, Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu reached ‘Day Zero’. As the city’s reservoirs shrank to 0.1% of their capacity, the crisis exposed a brutal hierarchy. While millions queued for hours at street corners for government tankers, the city’s luxury hotels continued to operate, fuelled by a fleet of private water tankers siphoning groundwater from surrounding villages. To read this article in the following languages, click the Translate Website button below the author’s name.

When the World Sleeps, a book (256 pages), was published by Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur for Gaza, in April 2026. It is a personal and political account of Palestine that combines ten human stories with Francesca’s own reflections as a UN special rapporteur. To read this article in the following languages, click the Translate Website button below the author’s name.

When I moved to Doha in 2008, I found a country that behaved like a permanent construction site. Cranes crowded the skyline. Roads were being cut through the desert, ports enlarged, universities opened and institutions raised almost from nothing. At the centre of this transformation stood one man: Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Father Emir, who died on Sunday at the age of 74. To read this article in the following languages, click the Translate Website button below the author’s name.

It was a distasteful affair, but Australian politicians have become accustomed to those toadying practices that accompany capitulations to power. On his visit to Melbourne, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was, as he had been on a previous trip, greeted by an evangelical atmosphere unseen and, it should be said, needless for other political leaders.

Abstract This article develops a philosophical critique of the persistent nexus between wealth and power across historical and contemporary social formations. Drawing on Marx, Nietzsche, Spinoza, Weber, Bourdieu, and Foucault, it argues that economic inequality is not merely a matter of resource distribution but a structural mechanism that organizes relations of dependence, shapes hierarchies of value, and regulates human agency.

As tensões entre os EUA e a Dinamarca em relação à Groenlândia continuam a aumentar. O presidente dos EUA, Donald Trump, se recusa a mudar sua posição em relação à suposta “necessidade” de os EUA controlarem a Groenlândia, enquanto o governo dinamarquês enfatiza que defenderá seu território por todos os meios possíveis – inclusive usando força militar, se necessário. O grande problema, no entanto, é que ambos os países são membros da mesma aliança militar.