Category: Thinking Politically

Somalia’s recognition of SSC-Khaatumo as its sixth Federal Member State (FMS) has radically shifted the Horn of Africa’s geopolitical dynamics, with implications for Israel, Palestine, and Ansar Allah (“the Houthis”).

The stagnation driven by Donald Trump’s tariff policies, intended to save the dollar from collapse—the US debt and trade imbalance is measured in trillions—is global in nature, but will fall hardest on countries euphemistically referred to as developing or emerging. In this scenario, deeply in debt and isolated from the world by the atrocities spoken…

For 76 years, Gaza has been has been the defiant heart of Palestinian resistance. Today, as Israel’s genocidal war lays bare the brutal dead end of Zionism, Gaza’s struggle transcends geography, bringing a global reckoning with colonialism, oppression, and the cost of silence.

Monther Abed, the sole survivor of the Israeli attack on paramedics in Rafah, reveals the details of the crime in which 15 humanitarian workers were killed.

Cryptocurrency mining uses about 2.3 percent of all U.S. electricity. That is more than the total electricity used for all residential lighting in America.

Ecuador’s National Electoral Council announced the results of the runoff election for the 2025 to 2029 presidential term. Incumbent President Daniel Noboa emerged victorious, earning 55 percent of the vote, while his opponent, Luisa González, trailed behind with 44 percent of the vote. González immediately declared electoral fraud, citing a series of irregularities including Noboa’s…

Choudhury attempts to deepen the discourse of the politics of mourning by highlighting that when it comes to thinking about Gaza in the contemporary times, thought itself is occupied by discourses that revolve around anti-semitism, human rights and legitimacy. In this regard, is it interesting to note that Choudhary’s book refuses, as he notes, the…

Even though Die Linke has re-entered the Bundestag surprisingly securely, one must begin with the obvious: this was the great electoral success of the right, especially the post-fascist AfD. The centre-left suffered an immense political defeat. 20 years ago, when the then Red-Green government lost its majority in 2005, the SPD and Greens together had…

The United States calls Cuba’s medical internationalism “human trafficking” — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the Global South.

Western courts have imposed imperial justice on Africa, but African courts promise judicial sovereignty. Courts created by the UN. Security Council to prosecute crimes committed within one nation have been infamously agendized to create and bolster Western imperial narratives. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was used to justify NATO bombing and…