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Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago
The arrest of activist Alyssa Phillip during Trinidad's Labour Day celebrations exposes the government's alignment with U.S. security interests
Bodies for Export: Blood Cherries
Behind Chile's glossy agro-export success lies a system of structural precariousness that exploits thousands of migrant women.
PI Briefing | No. 19 | Albania Is Not For Sale
Albanians are rising against the Trumps’ luxury land grab — and insisting their country is not for sale.
Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines
Canada is fast-tracking critical mineral mining while U.S. Pentagon funding and ownership stakes quietly redirect those minerals toward American weapons production.
Revealed: How Britain Weaponised Terrorism Laws Against Activists
Four Palestine Action activists face being sentenced as terrorists for criminal damage under a UK law that lets judges add a “terrorism connection” based solely on property damage.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 17 | Ballots, Bulldozers, Bombs
The Reactionary International advances through elections, land grabs and militarisation. Its opponents are learning to meet it on every front.
Migration
The border management fairytale
How the migration control dogma is used to maintain neocolonial rule and commodify human movements
Palestine
“The unity of the resistance rifle may be the only lifeboat to end this criminal usurping entity”
Fida Abdel Fattah on how the ongoing Nakba and Gaza genocide expose the futility of international law against a defiant Zionist-US alliance.
Militarism
Dead souls in the sugarlands: Counterinsurgency and the moral life of solidarity in Negros
A firsthand reflection on the Philippine counterinsurgency’s human toll, arguing that such historical violence cannot be fixed by technical reforms alone.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 16 | The Wages of Aggression
From oil futures to fertiliser markets, the US-Israeli war on Iran is rippling through the world economy — and sharpening the choice between scarcity and sovereignty.
Politics
Limbo in the south: Despite ceasefire, Lebanon’s displaced still await political pathway
Despite a ceasefire, displaced Lebanese families returning home find only shattered homes and a persistent sense of limbo, as ongoing Israeli strikes, occupation, and political uncertainty trap them between the desperate need for normalcy and the very real threat of renewed war.
Palestine
“The will of the peoples remains alive”
Rola Abu Dahou, a released Palestinian political prisoner and professor at Birzeit University, reflects on the history of settler-colonial violence and the responsibility of the academic community in Palestine.
Black Propaganda
Britain’s Secret ‘Black Propaganda’ Operations
Files reveal that the UK government’s covert propaganda unit, the IRD’s Special Editorial Unit, ran fake news agencies, forged documents, and manipulated journalists globally to undermine the Soviet Union, anti-colonial leaders, and leftist movements during the Cold War.
Geopolitics
Muizzu’s Maldives cooks up a sovereignty dispute over the Chagos Islands
Under Mohamed Muizzu, the Maldives is contesting Mauritius’ claim to the Chagos archipelago, inserting itself into a geopolitical dispute also involving the United Kingdom and the United States.
Militarism
Donald Trump Is on a Mining Offensive in DR Congo
The Trump administration is orchestrating a renewed US resource offensive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the expense of local populations and democratic accountability.
Regions
Latin America
Resisting U.S. Human Rights Barbarism: The Arrest of Alyssa Philip In Trinidad and Tobago
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