Deep dive

From erased graffiti to banned symbols, Germany’s crackdown on Palestinian street art exposes how aesthetics become acts of resistance, memory, and defiance in the struggle for visibility.

Through letters, photos, and memoirs, a Swiss-German artist unravels their family’s colonial legacies in Palestine and how Germany’s unprocessed guilt fuels its repression of solidarity and the rewriting of history.

From Rosa Luxemburg’s century-old defense against militarism to Berlin’s student trials on Palestine, Germany’s judiciary still insists it is “handling cases legally, not politically”—a fiction as old as its repression of dissent.

Facing arrests, bans, and brutal crackdowns, organizers in Berlin and New York persist in their fight for Palestine, exposing the hollowness of Western liberal democracies.

As sanctions lift, an investigation into how Croatia’s INA and foreign oil giants are vying for Syria’s war-scarred resources.

For Palestinians, grief is endless, compounded, and interrupted—never given space to breathe, never allowed to end.

Behind prepaid meters and privatization lies a deeper shift: IMF-backed reforms centralizing power and commodifying water at the expense of households already under strain.

Google Earth’s latest images of Gaza reveal 'Haunted house' pins marking destroyed homes, exposing a chilling layer of digital mockery and psychological warfare.

From massacres in Ethiopia to camps in Yugoslavia, Italy’s dark imperial legacy remains shrouded in denial, shielded by myths of ‘good Italians.

Milei’s ‘digital revolution’ turns Argentina into a playground for Big Tech and Big Mining at the expense of its people and environment.

As Israel wages its genocidal war on Gaza, Big Tech’s investments in Israel show how Silicon Valley underwrites apartheid—by recruiting Unit 8200 veterans and embedding occupation tech into Google Cloud.

Egypt's new labor law slashes wage protections, strips the right to strike, and excludes the most vulnerable workers under the banner of progress.

AI-driven weapons born from venture capital logics treat war as a beta test and failure as progress.

As wars erase homes and histories, family memory becomes resistance. From Ottoman Jabal Amel to neoliberal Beirut, this is a story of forgotten villages, exploited labor, silent women, and leftist dreams born in exile.

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its blunders dismantled the state, planting the seeds of ISIS and its Syrian spillover.

Bosnia's fate was sealed not by war alone, but by the architecture of an unequal peace.

As Gaza burned, Saudi Arabia kept the oil flowing, the arms investments growing, and its strategic alliance with Israel deepening — abandoning Palestinians to violence and impunity.

The Kurdish question resurfaces as Erdoğan juggles alliances abroad and repression at home, blurring the lines between foreign policy and domestic authoritarianism.

While the world debates bombs and sanctions, Iran is quietly running out of water—its land cracked, lakes vanished, and millions forced into climate migration.

How does one go on when their world has been erased? Through art, survivors navigate the weight of absence, transforming grief into testimony, horror into a haunting presence.

Anti-dam protests once halted the Yusufeli Dam in Turkey, yet, national capital co-opted these efforts into tools of displacement and control. The struggle, however, persists in new forms.

With €1,500 and a one-way ticket Cyprus' deportation machine, with EU backing, is pressuring Syrian refugees into ‘voluntary’ returns despite risks and legal protections.

The PIF’s rapid expansion cements Saudi Arabia’s global position but exposes human rights abuses, financial secrecy, and its role in whitewashing authoritarian rule through sports, AI, and mega-projects.

how can we arrive at a condition in which a struggle for a democratic, inclusive and open Syrian polity and society comes to presuppose and to prescribe a struggle against Israel’s genocidal ethno-nationalism and vice versa.

One year after the 7th of October, four anomalies and paradoxes of our daily media experience appear evident, linking the live-streamed Israeli genocide in Palestine with the brutal attacks on Lebanon.

The real stories of the local Sudanese medical teams who remained in El Fasher to save lives under fire while International aid agencies largely withdrew.

The city’s cultural policies commodify artistic expression and manipulate diversity, perpetuating power imbalances and constrains genuine cultural innovation.

It is tempting to call what is happening in Bangladesh a revolution. There is often a fine line between a revolution and a counter-revolution. Bangladesh is hanging on that tightrope today.

Afforestation has been a pillar of Israel’s settler colonization project, to create a national identity on Palestinian lands.

It is up to us to create our own mythology, identify with our heroines, and celebrate our saints. Qandisha's story is shaped by how we choose to portray her.