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European companies legally ship hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste to Moroccan cement kilns every year, erasing the pollution from their ledgers through a regulatory loophole while communities in Casablanca breathe the smoke

As plantations push into forests and reserves, this investigation of Mexico’s palm oil boom—spanning supermarket shelves, satellite maps, and rural inequality—asks: who profits, and at whose expense?

While Europe hesitates, Albania bets on Israel. For a country desperate to belong to the Western order, Palestinian suffering is the price of admission

As Beirut is bombed, an academic speaks about justice and extractivism as she is caught between war at home and conversations that continue as if nothing is burning

In Egypt, LGBTQI+ people face escalating abuse where online harassment, state complicity, and social hostility intersect, turning digital attacks into real-world threats with little protection or accountability

In the shadow of Gaza’s genocide, an Arab academic navigates funding, contracts, and collaboration while confronting the quiet violence of European institutions

A cornerstone of Turkey’s independent media since 1995, Açık Radyo lost its FM license in 2024 but continues to fight censorship while broadcasting online

From OpenAI to Google, insiders who warn about unsafe AI face retaliation, not protection, revealing a dangerous gap between technological power and public accountability

Israel’s permit regime is not administrative dysfunction but deliberate policy, leaving thousands to die while awaiting evacuation and thousands more confined within a health system it has decimated

Italy’s Tagliamento, Europe’s last free-flowing Alpine river, stands at the centre of a struggle between mega flood-control infrastructure and the survival of a unique living ecosystem

As coffee sells for luxury prices abroad, Tanzanian women harvest it for $3 a day—inside an industry shaped by colonial legacies, global markets, and the climate crisis

Each February, the Day of Honour in Budapest—a neo-Nazi commemoration—exposes how fascist mythmaking, transnational networks, and uneven policing are becoming normalised across Europe and the West

For decades, toxic industry has poisoned Gabès’ air and sea. Today, residents claim the right to breathe—rising against phosphate pollution, broken promises, and a suffocating green transition

Social media offers connection for queer Egyptians, but also exposes them to surveillance, entrapment, and harassment under expanding cybercrime laws

In Japan, Palestine solidarity movements may be smaller than in the West, but they are very active, and Gaza becomes a way to engage with a violent imperialist past

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.

Mega-projects, plastic waste, and shrinking fish stocks are reshaping Lamu Island, exposing the environmental and social costs of East Africa’s development ambitions.

Marketed as innovation, AI border control deepens racial discrimination. Black advocates call to decolonize technology and reclaim movement from algorithmic bias and digital colonialism.

Across generations of women, curls become threads of survival, love, and Palestine’s unyielding memory.

From AI checkpoints to facial recognition, Palestine is a testing ground for surveillance technologies later exported worldwide.

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

Karnataka’s indigenous forest dwellers face state crackdowns. Their struggle reveals how India’s conservation model erases the very communities who safeguard biodiversity.

Spain’s palmereros are battling EU safety laws and legal limbo to protect their centuries-old palm-climbing craft—and are now seeking UNESCO recognition to keep the tradition alive.

From bombed border homes to courtrooms where justice never comes, Kashmiris face not just conflict—but erasure. This is the story of survival in a system built to forget them.

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.

“Everyone here knows someone with cancer,” say Anagni residents, rallying against a new arms plant fueling global conflicts from Gaza to Sudan.

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

Every year, tens of thousands of migrants arrive in southern Spain to work in the plastic greenhouses of Europe. This is the story of one of them.