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Empire and Resistance

Has Oppression Become a Brand? The Commodification of Oppression and the Diaspora Identity Economy

In the age of social media, diaspora voices have become central to conversations about identity, conflict, and oppression. But what happens when identity enters the attention economy? This article explores how diaspora identity can shift from lived experience to something performed, aestheticised, and even monetised, examining the complex intersection of power, visibility, and representation in the modern digital landscape.

April 11, 2026
The Wars You’re Not Watching: 10 Underreported Conflicts Still Burning in 2026
Empire and Resistance

The Wars You’re Not Watching: 10 Underreported Conflicts in 2026 While the World Looks Elsewhere

While media attention remains focused on a handful of headline conflicts, millions of people around the world continue to suffer in wars that receive little sustained international coverage. From Sudan and Yemen to Congo and Kashmir, this article explores ten underreported conflicts still burning in 2026, examining their origins, humanitarian impact, and why they remain largely absent from public consciousness.

April 10, 2026
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Empire and Resistance

10 Books That Completely Change How You See American History

American history is often taught through triumph and mythology, but these ten powerful books challenge the official narrative and reveal the hidden realities beneath the story of the United States. From empire and propaganda to racism, war, and Indigenous erasure, these works offer perspectives that may fundamentally change how you understand America and its place in the modern world.

April 9, 2026
Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan: How the Taliban Systematically Erased Women
Women and Gender

Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan: How the Taliban Systematically Erased Women

Since the Taliban returned to power in 2021, Afghanistan has undergone one of the most extreme rollbacks of women’s rights in modern history. Girls are barred from secondary school, women are excluded from universities and most employment, and public space has been redefined as male territory.

But what exists today is not merely discrimination. Increasingly, legal scholars and UN experts are calling it something more precise: gender apartheid — a system of institutionalised domination that may meet the structural threshold of a crime against humanity.

This article examines how Afghanistan’s new legal framework, including the revised criminal code, has reshaped both public and private life for women — and what this means for future generations.

February 26, 2026
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: Empire by Other Means
Social Justice

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: Empire by Other Means

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is not a conspiracy theory — it’s a framework. This article explores how debt, development, and intervention function as tools of modern empire, and why the patterns John Perkins described are still shaping global politics today.

January 23, 2026
The Deomcratic Republic of the Congo Crisis Explained: A Genocide the World Refuses to Name
Congo

The Deomcratic Republic of the Congo Crisis Explained: A Genocide the World Refuses to Name

For more than three decades, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has experienced one of the deadliest sustained conflicts since World War II, resulting in millions of deaths and the displacement of entire communities. Often described as “too complex” to understand, the crisis is more accurately defined by familiar forces: colonial extraction, foreign intervention, ethnic fragmentation, and the global demand for natural resources.

December 18, 2025
Stolen Generations: How Denmark Is Still Taking Indigenous Children
Social Justice

Stolen Generations: How Denmark Is Still Taking Indigenous Children

A newborn taken within the first hour. A mother told she failed a culturally biased test. Decades after the Little Danes experiment, Greenlandic children are still being removed by the Danish state. This article exposes how Europe’s newest Stolen Generation is being created — and why the world must pay attention.

November 25, 2025
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