by Nava Thakuria, CounterVortex In an industry already hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s media this year also saw an alarming increase in the slaying of journalists. As 2020 approaches its end, India emerges as one of the most dangerous… Read moreJOURNO-MURDER SURGE IN INDIA
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Seventy-five years after Japan atomic bombings, a nuclear weapons ban treaty is finally realized by Gwyn McClelland, The Conversation The UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will finally come into force after the 50th country (Honduras) ratified it… Read moreHIBAKUSHA ‘STILL CANNOT GET OVER IT’
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by Francesco Dalessandro, Fifth Estate By the official version of history, World War II started in Poland in 1939, but cases can also be made that it really began in Austria in 1938, Spain in 1936, Abyssinia in 1935—or Manchuria in 1931. All… Read moreANARCHIST COMMUNE MANCHURIA
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Both the COVID-19 ‘New Normal’ and Trump Exploitation of the Backlash Pose Grave Threats to Freedom by Bill Weinberg, Fifth Estate Around Lower Manhattan, storefronts have been boarded up with plywood since the looting of early June. The plywood has now… Read moreTWO FACES OF FASCISM
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Explaining Canada’s Determination by Shaurya Shukla, Jurist Recently a Canadian court threw out the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) with the USA, finding that the detention centers in the United States violate the human rights of refugees. This pact compels… Read moreTRUMP’S AMERICA: NO LONGER SAFE FOR REFUGEES
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by Bill Weinberg, The Village Sun The sight of statues of Confederate generals and slavocrat politicians coming down in several states across the country is a long-overdue correction. There is no ambiguity on what those monuments to Robert E. Lee,… Read moreTHE MONUMENTAL DILEMMA
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International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim AA Khan announced that his office has filed applications for arrest warrants before the Pre-trial Chamber against two leading Taliban officials accused of committing crimes against humanity. Khan stated that his office collected solid evidence suggesting that the "supreme leader" of the Taliban, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and the chief justice of the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan," Abdul Hakim Haqqani, committed the crime of persecution on the basis of gender, violating Article 7 (1) (h) of the Rome Statute. He said that these Taliban officials have been persecuting Afghan women and girls, as well as any persons who don't follow their ideology, over the last four years. He said that the requested warrants are based on a wide range of evidence, including testimonies, official statements, and forensic reports gathered by a specialized investigation team. (Photo: VOA via Wikimedia Commons)
Guerrillas, Smugglers and Militarization on Colombia-Venezuela Frontier by Joshua Collins, The New Humanitarian Even against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic, a war is being waged along the vast and porous Venezuela-Colombia border, across which people, narcotics, black-market gasoline, food,… Read moreSHADOW WAR ON THE BORDERLANDS
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Among the long list of ostensibly local conflicts that have broken out in South Sudan since a national peace deal was inked in 2018, analysts say the current violence involving Nuer and Shilluk militias in Upper Nile state ranks among the deadliest. Thousands of people have been uprooted since mid-November and there are concerns of an imminent attack on Kodok—a town hosting more than 10,000 displaced Shilluk. Nuer forces have encircled Kodok and cut off escape routes, including to the nearby UN protection camp in Malakal. Though clashes are along communal lines, they were triggered by internal tensions within a splinter group of the country's main opposition movement, the SPLA-IO. Simon Gatwech (a Lou Nuer) and Johnson Olony (a prominent Shilluk) defected from the group last year before turning on each other. President Salva Kiir has said he "cannot stop" the fighting, though critics say his regime benefits from pitting the feuding factions against each other. (Map: Perry-Castañeda Library)
by Nava Thakuria, CounterVortex As an unprecedented lockdown imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues across India, the country’s newspaper groups face an uphill battle to maintain their devoted readership. The complete shutdown, to last at least through April 14, instantly prevented deliveries of morning… Read moreCAN NEWSPAPERS SURVIVE COVID-19?
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That Putin Wants You to Forget by James Oliver, Euromaidan Press On February 23, the Chechen and Ingush peoples of Russia’s North Caucasus commemorated a tragedy in their history—the start of the Soviet deportation in 1944. Initiated by Stalin and… Read moreSTALIN’S CAUCASUS CRIMES
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The UN fact-finding mission for Sudan has produced a follow-up to its February investigation into atrocities by the Rapid Defense Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, finding at least three of the "material crimes" of genocide "overwhelmingly present." After a prolonged siege, the UAE-backed paramilitary army launched an October 2025 assault on El Fasher, which was the last major Darfur city where the Sudanese army and allied forces were in control. Since the February publication, the mission said it has received new information, especially on the abduction and mass rape of women and girls. It says survivors were raped by RSF forces in the presence of corpses, including of family members, and were targeted along ethnic lines. The mission also received new information on the high number of people—up to tens of thousands—who remain missing or unaccounted for. With the RSF planning a new assault on the North Kordofan capital, El Obeid, the mission said the same patterns are repeating, and called for the lessons of El Fasher not to be ignored. (Map: PCL)
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