Empire and Resistance

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
Walter Rodney How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
My Bookshelf

Walter Rodney How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: A Revolutionary Lens on Power, Plunder, and Resistance

Walter Rodney was a man killed for telling the truth — that Africa’s poverty and Europe’s prosperity are two sides of the same coin. His groundbreaking book, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, exposed how centuries of slavery, colonialism, and corporate exploitation built the modern West on Africa’s stolen wealth. Half a century later, Rodney’s words remain as explosive as ever — a call to confront the systems that still profit from global inequality.

October 7, 2025
The Word That Haunts Us: How Antisemitism Became a Modern Myth
My Activism

The Word That Haunts Us: How Antisemitism Became a Modern Myth

Antisemitism is a word that halts conversation, weighted by centuries of violence. But what does it really mean today? This in-depth article traces antisemitism from medieval massacres to modern politics, arguing that while prejudice still exists, the word itself is now often misused—weaponized in ways that distort both history and truth.

July 24, 2025
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