Politics

When a border slices through Kurvaleti in Georgia, what vanishes is more than land: trust, kinship, and belonging unravel across a simple division.

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.

Israel’s surprise assault sparked a brutal war that allowed Iran’s regime to pose as the nation’s protector. Yet beneath the surface, networks of care offered a different vision of survival and resistance.

From Palestine to Iraq, from Lebanon to Syria and Afghanistan, seven women recount how foreign powers promised liberation—only to deliver devastation, blood, and betrayal.

In a colonial context, reworking images is an act of liberation and reclaiming, a way to tell stories of a lost homeland.

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

Colonizers write the rules to win, and break them when they don’t. From Wounded Knee to Gaza, diplomacy with empire is a trap paved with betrayal, blood, and broken promises.

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

War is no longer confined to battlefields, it’s embedded in everyday tech with global data networks being weaponized with little oversight or accountability.

From drone strikes to facial scans, legal frameworks are being bent to justify AI-powered targeting and biometric control in a new era of algorithmic warfare.

A performance of public love, radical democracy, and refusal to obey in advance united artists, farmers, doctors, and drag queens who kept the movement alive.

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

Writing and archiving are emotional and political acts—a refusal to surrender memory to silence, transforming history into a living tapestry where endings become beginnings.

The archive of the revolution is both a child of hope and its creator. Through documenting their revolution and preserving their lived experiences since March 15, 2011, Syrians have managed to bridge the temporal rupture that repression sought to impose.

Amid the cracked tiles of the German Foreigners’ Office, Aras feels the weight of a people caught up in a circle of revolutionary upheaval, their horrific suppression and a bureaucracy of exile.

Revolutions fade, but their magic survives in music, memories, and fragments of a collective dream—this is a tale of witnessing the moments we hold onto.

In Syria, our memory, shaped by fear, mistrust, and control, has become a battleground, caught between 'trauma porn' and modern tactics of erasure and forgetting.

With Israel not allowing DNA tests in Gaza, families guess who to mourn. Children disappear into rubble. Parents are left clinging to memories, not remains.

M. held a sign asking if Germany learned from the Holocaust. She now faces criminal charges for it.

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.

Deliberate attacks on healthcare are becoming a hallmark of modern warfare — and a test of international law

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

Without fully embracing decolonial practices, academia’s commitment to transformative change remains superficial at best or a performative maneuver that ultimately sustains the status quo

Spain’s billion-euro agriculture sector depends on undocumented migrant laborers—now evicted en masse, left homeless, and trapped in a system that profits from their exploitation.

As Western governments crack down on Palestine solidarity, universities are increasingly complicit in suppressing critical voices—Joseph Daher’s case is just the latest in a broader pattern of repression.

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.

More than four years after the mass uprising that shook Iraq’s political system, what remains of the movement that once filled Iraq’s streets with demands for change?

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.