Nayib Bukele: The Dark Side of the “World’s Coolest Dictator”

How the US helped Nayib Bukele turn El Salvador into the world’s largest prison state and why Donald Trump sees him as a model.

Alan Macleod
By Alan Macleod

The Trump administration’s deal to send large numbers of people to prisons in El Salvador has thrust its president, Nayib Bukele, into the international spotlight. Bukele has been praised, especially in conservative media, as a dynamic and popular leader who has saved his country from the grips of gang violence. But beneath this polished image, he

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Documentary | Automated Apartheid: Walking Through Hebron Smart City

Mnar Adley takes us along her journey as she crosses through the most heavily armed and surveilled checkpoints in the world where Israel has set up an automated apartheid system to track Palestinian movement.

Mnar Adley
By Mnar Adley
Hebron Doc Feature photo

A silent sentinel watches over every corner in the bustling streets of Hebron, the largest city in the West Bank, where the ancient echoes of history collide with the modern hum of daily life. This sentinel is not a person but a network of surveillance technology known ominously as the "Hebron Smart City." Designed by Israeli authorities, this

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Inside Job? Ominous New Questions Surround Navalny’s Death

Kit Klarenberg explores the sudden vanishing act of Western media and political attention after new intelligence challenges the narrative surrounding Alexei Navalny’s death.

Kit Klarenberg
By Kit Klarenberg
navalny Feature photo

On April 27, the Wall Street Journal published an investigation based on as yet unpublished U.S. intelligence community assessments and anonymous briefings courtesy of “security officials from several European capitals,” which concluded that Vladimir Putin neither orchestrated Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny’s death in prison two months

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America is Rising for Gaza: What Should We Expect?

American students across the country are not protesting, risking their futures and safety because of some pathological hate for Jews. They are doing so in rejection of, and justifiable outrage over, the mass killing carried out by Israel against defenseless civilians in Gaza.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Israel Palestinians Campus Protests Feature photo

The mass protests at dozens of U.S. universities cannot be reduced to a stifling and misleading conversation about antisemitism. Thousands of American students across the country are not protesting, risking their futures and very safety, because of some pathological hate for the Jewish people. They are doing so in a complete rejection of, and

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A Tale of Two Genocides: Namibia’s Stand Against Israeli Aggression

Namibia’s solidarity with Palestine underscores a broader shift in global politics, where shared histories pave the way for meaningful alliances against colonial oppression.

Ramzy Baroud
By Ramzy Baroud
Namibia Palestine Feature photo

The distance between Gaza and Namibia is measured in the thousands of kilometers. But the historical distance is much closer. This is precisely why Namibia was one of the first countries to take a strong stance against the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Namibia was colonized by the Germans in 1884, while the British colonized Palestine in the 1920s,

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Israel Killed My Mother! Lowkey interviews Dalloul Neder from Gaza

Lowkey interviews Dalloul Neder from Gaza, who lost five members of his family, including his mother and brother, when Israel bombed them. Dalloul attempted to bring the case to the attention of his MP, Angela Rayner of the Labour Party, but was assaulted and beaten by police.

Lowkey
By Lowkey
Watchdog Dalloul Neder Feature photo

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