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Shambhavi Siddhi In the days following the United States and Israeli strikes on Iran, a familiar pattern reemerged on Indian segments of Twitter and Instagram. As the international community grappled with the escalating turmoil in West Asia, a specific group of Indian feminists, influencers, and sel
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Shabbir Rizvi “Quds Day is a universal day. It is not an exclusive day for Quds itself. It is a day for the oppressed to rise and stand up against the arrogant.” – Ayatollah Khomeini. The last Friday of Ramadan marks “Quds Day” — a day declared by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979 to be a […]
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Momodou Taal “Africa must be united in the struggle against colonialism and racism wherever they exist.” – President Ahmed Sekou Toure, speech at the Organisation of African Unity, mid-1960s The Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), which resulted in roughly half a million deaths and more than a million casual
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Souad.S As imperialism sheds its masks, after decades of neoliberal deception and colonial performance, the African continent is confronting one of the most extreme expressions of imperial war. Many African countries remain subjected to neocolonial domination and external control, while others are c
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Marwa Yousuf K. A billionaire traffics minors for other billionaires (and multi-millionaires), ferries them across borders in private jets, houses them on his private island buffered by ocean and law; the details are documented, leaked, litigated, archived, and still the shape of it feels structural
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Ayman Hareez Muhammad Adib In popular Malaysian discourse, conversations about local political developments tend to be reduced to the binary opposition between conservatism and liberalism. On the former end, the story goes that Malaysia is a Muslim country because its dominant indigenous population
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Marwa Yousuf K “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” – Audre Lorde In the age of soft warfare, empire needs brokers, not boots on the ground. The battlefield is no longer limited to terrain; it has expanded to narrative, and the most potent weapons in this war are not drones
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Conducted by Qasim Ansari for VoxUmmah In the wake of Israel’s war on Gaza – and the subsequent escalation across the region – Iran once again finds itself framed as both instigator and threat. The narratives are familiar: the Islamic Republic as an oppressive regime that must be dismantled and resi
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This statement was republished from the Bronx Anti-War Coalition. Its text content is unedited. What Is Actually Happening in Iran — and the Only Correct Anti-Imperialist Position Let’s be clear from the start: this is not complex, this is not nuanced, and this is not a situation where “two truths c
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Shabbir Rizvi This article was republished from PressTV. Only the title was changed from the original publication. In April of 2024, the mood within the occupied Palestinian territories was tense. Israeli regime had launched strikes on Damascus aimed at the Iranian diplomatic mission, resulting in t
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Janan Hassan There is a reason this story is always told from the middle – not from the first transaction, not from the first border crossed, not from the moment despair met distribution and called it medicine, but from the overdose, the relapse, the final breath of the person already deemed disposa
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Auf A. Said I grew up in the kampung heart of Tanjung Priok district in Jakarta, Indonesia, a place people call pinggiran, yet somehow more cosmopolitan than the polished neighbourhoods that claim the city’s official identity. Here, I lived within my familiar bubble of the Bugis-Makassar community.