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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.
Jul 29
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Masrook Dar
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March 2026
Al Jazeera English Has Become a US-Gulf Propaganda Arm
The channel’s Iran war coverage is flipping from truth-telling to empire cheerleading
Mar 20
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Masrook Dar
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When War Becomes an Excursion
How the language used by the U.S. establishment – from "excursion" to "deranged scumbags" – quietly dehumanizes Iranians.
Mar 16
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Masrook Dar
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The Centre Cannot Hold in the Gulf
Trapped Between Missiles and a Madman –The Gulf’s Breaking Point
Mar 12
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Masrook Dar
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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.
Mar 10
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Masrook Dar
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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…
Mar 5
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Masrook Dar
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When Genesis Becomes Geopolitics
Mike Huckabee's Viral Endorsement of Biblical Borders – and the Perils of Turning Scripture into Foreign Policy
Mar 4
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Masrook Dar
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February 2026
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
Feb 28
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Masrook Dar
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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.
Feb 24
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Masrook Dar
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Marco Rubio’s “New Western Century” and Empire’s Ghosts
Historical amnesia and the return of imperial language
Feb 23
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Masrook Dar
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Berlinale and the Politics of Selective Outrage
On Arundhati Roy, cultural institutions, and uneven moral language
Feb 17
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Masrook Dar
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Whose Deaths Are Mourned – and Whose Are Not
Some lives are mourned in detail, while others are absorbed into statistics.
Feb 10
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Masrook Dar
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