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Atlas Network: Disinformation as a Weapon of Neoliberalism
The organization, founded in 1981, has 589 think tanks in 103 countries that finance the hatred and hoaxes of the extreme right. The objective: to protect the privileges of capital owners.
Forgotten Photos Expose UK Army Abuses In Iraq
Photos and evidence document systemic abuse of Iraqi detainees by British soldiers in 2003, revealing a pattern of hooding, stress positions, and violence.
PI Briefing | No. 44 | How we Make Amazon Pay
For the sixth consecutive year, workers around the world are organizing to Make Amazon Pay.
It’s been 12 years since Rana Plaza. Why is Amazon still refusing to protect Bangladeshi garment workers?
Nazma Akter condemns Amazon for its continued refusal to sign the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety.
Hindu nationalism’s debt to colonialism
Hindu nationalism's ideology is built on a colonial-era history that falsely framed India's past as a perpetual Hindu-Muslim conflict, a distorted narrative now weaponised to fuel majoritarian politics.
Palestine
How the world enriches from the blood of the Palestinians
UN report details how major corporations are enabling and profiting from the Israeli occupation and violence against Palestinians.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 42 | Tipping Points
As COP30 convenes in Brazil, the world’s crises deepen to breaking point.
Colonialism
Ecuador’s referendum: the latest front in Washington’s war on Latin America
A referendum in Ecuador, backed by the US, threatens to dismantle the nation's progressive 2008 constitution, paving the way for US military bases and a neoliberal rollback of sovereignty.
Indigenous rights
El-Fasher's Fall: A New Chapter in Darfur's Ethnic Cleansing
The UAE-backed RSF's capture of Darfur's historic capital, El-Fasher, marks a catastrophic escalation, cementing a two-decade campaign of ethnic cleansing.
Ecology
The North Bengal Floods Are the Cost of Development
In India, north Bengal’s ecological fragility is being rapidly compounded by a tourism model driven by unchecked construction enabled by political complicity.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 41 | Palestine: Stolen or Decolonised
In the West Bank, the colonization of Palestine is rapidly escalating, with Israel advancing legislation to annex 82% of the occupied territory.
Democracy
Suffocating Republic
Delhi's lethal air pollution exposes the failure of governance and a segregated society.
Right to information
Who gets to control the truth?
A report on India's Right to Information (RTI) movement, a landmark struggle for transparency, now under threat from new laws that undermine its power.
Briefing
PI Briefing | No. 40 | Kerala ends extreme poverty
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) announces that Kerala has become the first Indian state to end extreme poverty.
Entrevistas
The Caribbean’s Zone of Peace Under Threat: A Conversation with David Abdulah
A Trinidadian labor activist talks about his government’s submissive position to the US in the face of the imperialist buildup against Venezuela, and the correlation of forces in the region.
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