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The Political Grammar of Protest

What the recent student protests in India reveal about democracy, universities and the politics of education.
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Al Jazeera English Has Become a US-Gulf Propaganda Arm
The channel’s Iran war coverage is flipping from truth-telling to empire cheerleading
 • Masrook Dar
When War Becomes an Excursion
How the language used by the U.S. establishment – from "excursion" to "deranged scumbags" – quietly dehumanizes Iranians.
 • Masrook Dar
The Centre Cannot Hold in the Gulf
Trapped Between Missiles and a Madman –The Gulf’s Breaking Point
 • Masrook Dar
Trump's Epic Fail: US Hegemony Dies in Iran War
A few days ago Donald Trump brazenly demanded veto power over Iran’s new Supreme Leader while talking to the press.
 • Masrook Dar
Pete Hegseth’s Wartime Language: Vulgar and Vile
We are in the middle of a war, I must add, a war of choice, which the United States willingly took upon itself, not because Iran posed any direct threat…
 • Masrook Dar
When Genesis Becomes Geopolitics
Mike Huckabee's Viral Endorsement of Biblical Borders – and the Perils of Turning Scripture into Foreign Policy
 • Masrook Dar
Trump's Regime-Change Fantasy Exploding in Real Time in the Gulf
Trump's decapitation strike fails, smoke billows over Tehran and the clouds of a regional war are looming high. And will Trump survive 2026 Midterms
 • Masrook Dar
The ‘Pleasant Fiction’ Was Never Pleasant
When the old global order is finally called a fantasy, the question then is who gets to write the next version.
 • Masrook Dar
Marco Rubio’s “New Western Century” and Empire’s Ghosts
Historical amnesia and the return of imperial language
 • Masrook Dar
The CounterArchive
The CounterArchive
On power, geopolitics and the world as it is – not as it's presented. Weekly essays (with the occasional double feature).

The CounterArchive

On power, geopolitics and the world as it is – not as it's presented. Weekly essays (with the occasional double feature).
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