Make no mistake. For India's TV channels, war is nothing but content. They've reduced it to a spectator sport to drive their ratings.

🇮🇳🇵🇰"Both the elites in India and Pakistan use this kind of dispute to shore up their own shallow legitimacy. They would rather the poor go to die, then solve their own country's problems." Vijay Prashad, Indian historian and director of Tricontinental Institute for Social Research speaks about the

I'm sure there are Indians out there who believe that accurate information is crucial for useful analysis. How do they live in such an unreliable and noisy information environment?

On the perils of a full war between India and Pakistan. A few minutes of comment from me: youtu.be/skJiNx8Ivqo?si…

Really important point here. Rubio refers to talking "at a neutral site", this unavoidably brings third party mediation into the equation. Something India has been vehemently against since the Simla agreement.

🇵🇰 Dr. Taimur Rahman on the key contradictions shaping Pakistan today - key to understanding the ongoing tensions between India & Pakistan. Full video of Dr. Taimur Rahman in dialogue w/ Vijay Prashad about the situation in the subcontinent: youtube.com/watch?v=sR6TGj…

I havent seen anyone talk about it yet and i mentioned it in my chat with Ryan Grim for Drop Site podcast but my audio was horrible: Pakistan gave most of its artillery stockpiles to Ukraine since the Ukraine war started. Pakistan did not have $1+ bn of arty stocks for sale,

My latest for The New Arab on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's disastrous implementation and the multiple traps facing the Palestinian cause. newarab.com/opinion/gaza-u…

"To draw on antisemitism in this moment is both a form of genocide denial and an incitement to more violence against Palestinians" - I have a new essay up at The New Arab (thank you to Ben Ashraf for the invitation to write) newarab.com/opinion/israel…

“By launching a preemptive strike without evidence of an impending weaponisation of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile… Israel once again demonstrated its willingness to act outside the bounds of global norms.” — My latest for ⁦The New Arab⁩ newarab.com/opinion/striki…

Something happened yesterday, and Trump is now determined to take the country to a war of choice. He can change his mind at the last minute, as he did in 2019, but short of that, there will be war. It is important to understand that capitulation is most likely not an option for

Here's a big-picture geopolitical thread on Israel's war on Iran - its possibilities, impossibilities, dynamics, and delusions. My goal is to give you a full big-picture view in one place, which is why this is a long thread. If you prefer drip-fed updates, skip this thread.

Always great working with Mouin Rabbani — “Tehran is damned if it acts, and damned – arguably more so – if it does nothing” Read Mouin’s op-ed in The New Arab The US and Israel blew up the deal. Now Iran may build the nuclear bomb it never had newarab.com/opinion/iran-n…

"The US and Israel Blew up the Deal. Now Iran May Build the Nuclear Bomb it Never Had". My article in The New Arab about the potential repercussions of the US bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities. newarab.com/opinion/iran-n…

newarab.com/opinion/how-we… I wrote about how white feminists want to liberate Muslim women one bomb at a time for The New Arab

Shoutout to Ben Ashraf for being a wonderful editor who always makes my writing punchier and for commissioning the important things that mainstream papers are too scared or complicit or disinterested to run

AQ Khan: "Are these bastards God-appointed guardians of the world?" My piece on how Israel attempted assassinations and even planned to bomb a Pakistani nuclear facility in the 1980s - but failed to stop Pakistan going nuclear:

There are two ways to look at int’l law: through the history of colonialism or of resistance to it. The West is stuck in the former. Since the 1960s, the latter has exploded into the mainstream. How it looks like is up to us. My latest for The New Arab: newarab.com/opinion/rules-…

🧵New by The New Arab : Simon Mauvieux Maël Galisson and Maïa Courtois look into the circumstances of the death of Jumaa al-Hasan, a Syrian migrant who drowned in the Channel last year. Pictures by Valentina Camu newarab.com/investigations…

My latest for Protean Magazine on Steve Inskeep's abhorrent interview with the brilliant Palestinian writer Yousri Alghoul.