Sacrifice Zone: How Europe’s Hunt for Non-Russian Oil Poisons Kazakhstan’s Caspian Coast
In 2025, one in every eight barrels of oil imported into Italy came from Kazakhstan. Starting in Atyrau, we traced ...
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The Lost Innocence of Playing: Why Games are Becoming the New Cultural Battlefield Between the Far Right and its Opponents
Steve Bannon studied World of Warcraft players before he built Breitbart's alt-right pipeline. Ten years after GamerGate, games are still ...
In Cyprus, Israelis are Buying up a lot of Land and Some Fear it is Another Colonisation
Thousands of people have left Israel and bought land in Cyprus, an island divided between the EU and Turkey where ...
From Nepal, to Indonesia, and the Philippines: The Children of Remittance Take to the Streets
The recent uprisings across the Asia-Pacific region carry a quieter thread: protesters raised by absent, migrant-worker parents are refusing to ...
The Cockroach Revolt: How India’s Youth Uprising Is Cracking Modi’s Electoral Autocracy
Behind the marches is a jobs crisis crushing the young, an exam industry built on suicides, and billionaires thriving as ...
The Disposable Ones: How Albania’s Land-Grabbing State Bred the Flamingo Revolution
Long before Kushner's resort, Rama's Albania was already clearing land of the people who lived on it: pyramid schemes, hydropower ...
More Scars Than Traces: Christopher Nolan Filmed His The Odyssey in Messenia, But Can the Region Survive the Spotlight?
The same wild coastlines and ancient fortresses that drew Hollywood's cameras are straining under rising heat, overtourism, and a resort ...
Beyond FIFA’s World Cup: The Rules We Actually Play By
Western leaders are fighting over the rules of the new global order. The sports their societies love most can tell ...
Toxic Trade: How Europe Exports Its Waste to Morocco and Calls It Recycling
European companies legally ship hundreds of thousands of tonnes of waste to Moroccan cement kilns every year, erasing the pollution ...
Deforestation, Data Gaps, and Small Farmers: Mapping the True Costs of Mexico’s Palm Oil
As plantations push into forests and reserves, this investigation of Mexico’s palm oil boom—spanning supermarket shelves, satellite maps, and rural ...
Billionaires in Borrowed Costumes: How Silicon Valley Loots Science Fiction to Justify Its Power Grab
From Musk's Star Trek pitch to Pentagon generals to Palantir's Tolkien branding and terrifying manifesto, Silicon Valley has turned science ...
From Bandung to Bibi: How Modi’s India Abandoned Non-Alignment for Ethnonationalism
India’s silence on Gaza, Iran and Lebanon reflects a broader shift from anti-colonial solidarity to alignment with Israel and the ...
Targeted by Design: Technoviolence, Xenophobia, and Algorithmic Injustice in SWANA
In the global majority, big Tech policies are often complicit in the rise of digital fascism, hate speech, and systemic ...
Capitalism, War, and the Violence of Digital Platforms: A Conversation with Geert Lovink
A critical reflection on platform brutality, exhausted imaginaries, and the uneasy search for collective exits from digital dependency.
Whose Forests? Jenu Kuruba Tribes Fight for Ancestral Land and Forest Rights in India
Karnataka’s indigenous forest dwellers face state crackdowns. Their struggle reveals how India’s conservation model erases the very communities who safeguard ...
Rewriting Egypt’s Social Contract Through Water
Behind prepaid meters and privatization lies a deeper shift: IMF-backed reforms centralizing power and commodifying water at the expense of ...
Silicon Pampa: How Milei’s Techno-Libertarian Dream Turns Argentina into a Data Colony for AI and Lithium
Milei’s ‘digital revolution’ turns Argentina into a playground for Big Tech and Big Mining at the expense of its people ...
Italy’s ‘Death Valley’: Resisting Europe’s Arms Drive, Toxic Legacies, and Gaza Complicity
“Everyone here knows someone with cancer,” say Anagni residents, rallying against a new arms plant fueling global conflicts from Gaza ...
When War Becomes a Tech Product: How Silicon Valley Logics are Reshaping Military AI
AI-driven weapons born from venture capital logics treat war as a beta test and failure as progress.
Rachid’s Journey: How Our Food System Exploits ‘Illegal’ Migration
Every year, tens of thousands of migrants arrive in southern Spain to work in the plastic greenhouses of Europe. This ...
Understanding the threats ahead of a democratic and progressive Syria
The Syrian popular classes must organise to achieve the initial aspirations of the Syrian revolution.
On Berlin’s cultural industry: Exploitation and selective inclusion
The city’s cultural policies commodify artistic expression and manipulate diversity, perpetuating power imbalances and constrains genuine cultural innovation.
“Revolution can happen even if people don’t think about it”. A conversation with Asef Bayat
Over the past two decades, processes of exclusion and necropolitical governance have intensified. This interview highlights the impact of global ...
