Rupesh, a small-holder farmer in rural Karnataka, Southern India, was married to Neelam, with whom he had four children. He owed money to middle men who would take a cut off his new produce. Four ...
I woke up Saturday morning to the shocking news that US President Donald Trump had ordered the US invasion of Venezuela and the removal of its unanimously declared illegitimate president, Nicolás ...
Researchers Aleksander Deejay and Tamas Wells highlighted a growing concern: major platforms like Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), Alphabet (Google, YouTube) and Twitter are actively eroding ...
In today’s world, where refugee crises are exacerbated by xenophobic border policies, where the global north refuses to engage in burden sharing, where people’s freedom of movement is ruthlessly ...
The myths, folklore and remembered histories of the Wancho overlap and intertwine with one another in the oral tradition of transmitting stories from one generation to the next. There are mythical ...
Indonesia’s schools tell a story of two nations. Across Jakarta and Java, classrooms buzz with potential; in parts of Papua and eastern Indonesia, children struggle to finish elementary education.
Abeyagoonasekera begins by outlining the reality on the ground since the February 2021 coup d’état. More than 6,000 people have been killed, over 3.5 million displaced and roughly half the population ...
Israel has carried out a relentless and zealous military onslaught in Gaza that shows orchestrated mass inhumanity on a gargantuan scale. This campaign has killed tens of thousands of civilians, razed ...
Once famous for historic battles, Sutjeska National Park in Bosnia and Herzegovina is a region of mountains and primeval forests on the border with Montenegro. More recently, lawyers have replaced ...
Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that United States global hegemony ...
As a sovereign nation, the State of Israel has existed since 1948, following the end of the 30-year mandate for British administration of Palestine, when the Jewish Agency declared the territory as ...
[This piece is a continuation of a multi-part series. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 here.] The support of the Brazilian militias and the Neo-Pentecostal churches may have guaranteed Brazilian ...