Ruling class normal
PAKISTAN is on fire, and not in a good way. Interrelated demographic, ecological and economic crises are escalating. The incoming government owes its ‘success’ to the establishment and is considered…
Enforced disappearances
EARLIER this month the United Nations Human Rights Council wrapped up the 42nd session of the Universal Periodic Review Working Group, a state-driven process by which UN members review the…
Ecocide in the Indus basin
ON Sept 19, 1960, a treaty was signed between India and Pakistan on water sharing. The decisions taken effectively meant that the three rivers of the Indus River basin —…
International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances
Enforced Disappearances (EDs) have been frequently used as a strategy to spread fear and terror in a society, according to the UN. By now, the world body argues, it has…
Global Palestine versus global Israel—III
Schizophrenic fascist population – Francs. Herbert. Bradley says “Where everything is bad/it must be good/to know the worst. In Minima Moralia Adorno states, “A humanity is secretly emerging, which hungers…
Jabalia
Who is Hamas? Any child who hasn’t run away THE Jabalia Camp massacre changes everything. We are dealing with a criminally insane entity called Israel backed by a criminally hypocritical superpower. Some…
Scapegoating the refugee
HERDED like cattle, over 1,700,000 Muslim refugees — more than twice the number of Palestinians evicted in 1948 by Zionist Israel — are presently being expelled from the Islamic Republic…
Fisherfolk misery
SAILING the seas in fragile boats to earn a day’s living is no easy task. A fishworker, whether in Pakistan or across the border, is exposed to great vulnerability and…
Climate action
EIGHT years after the Paris Agreement, the global community is nowhere near reducing emissions to keep temperature increase within the safe threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2030. According to…
No perfect storm
THINK of a product(ion) — a book or poem, a movie or song, a painting or sculpture — as a ‘text’: something tangible that can be unpicked, researched and, as…
