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Nigeria Bleeding: Oil, Massacres and the Architecture of a Useful Violence
In Africa’s most populous country, burned villages, executed bodies and mass displacement expose a crisis that cannot be explained solely by religious fanaticism or local criminality. In a nation rich in oil and strategic for the global energy market, extreme violence coexists with geopolitical interests, external militarization and an economic model that has left the…
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When Ideology Denies DNA: The Arabization of Algeria
For a long time, Algerian identity has been presented through a narrow and selective lens. Many Algerians were taught, directly or indirectly, that their origins were mainly Arab, as if the country’s history began only with the arrival of Arab-speaking populations and Islam. This simplified narrative, repeated for generations, gradually imposed itself as common sense.…
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Cuba under siege: famine induced and planned by Washington
The intensification of the economic, financial and energy siege against Cuba — reaffirmed and expanded under the current U.S. administration — is producing a severe supply crisis and widespread blackouts that various analysts describe as an induced famine. After more than seven decades of embargo, the strategy of pressure appears aimed not only at isolating…
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Kidlat Tahimik feted in MET Gallery’s first National Artist exhibit for 2026
In celebration of National Arts Month 2026, the Metropolitan Theater (MET), in collaboration with the Order of National Artists (ONA), presents “Portraits of a National Artist as Kultur Warrior,” featuring works inspired by and dedicated to National Artist Kidlat Tahimik. The exhibition marks the first installment of the MET’s National Artists Exhibit Series for the…
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Trump halts environmental policies: The danger of brutal ignorance in power
The White House announces the revocation of the scientific finding that for more than fifteen years underpinned federal climate regulation in the United States. The decision dismantles the legal framework of national policy against global warming and reopens a debate that seemed legally settled since 2009. The administration of Donald Trump has confirmed that it…
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Washington as a battering ram against the European model
The discursive and political backing from influential sectors in the United States for far-right forces in Germany forms part of a broader process of international legitimation of ethnonationalist projects. In the German case, the normalization of the AfD and the reconfiguration of its youth wing under suspicion of extremist links intersect with a deeper geopolitical…
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Monks are walking across the U.S. for peace
Since Oct. 26, 2025, about two dozen monks from have been on a pilgrimage, dubbed Walk for Peace, to spread a message of peace throughout the United States. Starting in Fort Worth, Texas and headed to the White House, the group — which consists of monks from around of the world, along with an Indian…
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“10 Frames Unseen”: documentar la discapacitat a Cisjordània a través del retrat
Deu retrats i deu testimonis expliquen què passa quan una incursió militar no s’acaba amb el titular, sinó amb una lesió permanent. La violència no s’acaba quan marxen els soldats. Tampoc quan els mitjans deixen de cobrir els fets. A Cisjordània, moltes de les ferides provocades per incursions militars i atacs de colons es transformen…
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When love breaks into the spectacle
On the most heavily guarded stage of U.S. symbolic power, a legitimate voice turned entertainment into a political act and confronted hatred with collective dignity. It was not just the Super Bowl. That ultimate altar of spectacle—designed to say nothing while showing everything—slipped out of alignment for a moment. And into that crack entered a…
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Bangladesh Goes to the Polls on 12 February, Ousted Hasina’s Awami League Absent
Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority nation of over 170 million people, goes for a general election on 12 February 2026 to elect its 13th Jatiya Sansad in Dhaka. According to the Bangladesh Election Commission, 12,77,11,895 electorates are altogether eligible to vote, of whom over 4.5 million are newly registered young voters (after attaining 18 years). The voting…