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A Knesset bill that lets military courts hang Palestinians branded “terrorists” was passed to celebration in parliament, and rights groups say it turns a decades-old occupation into a state execution machine.
A new Knesset law making capital punishment the default sentence for Palestinians accused of "terrorism" has drawn accusations of state-sanctioned killing, arriving as the destruction in Gaza reaches historic scale.
As conflict deepens in Israel and Palestine, a new law on terrorism penalties has triggered global debate over security, human rights, and state power. This article examines the legal, political, and humanitarian questions shaping the controversy.
Eight decades after the RSS began fusing Hindutva with Jagannath devotion in Odisha, the state's 2024 BJP sweep has been followed by a chief minister's own admission of 54 communal violence incidents and seven mob lynchings, a trajectory Ali Javed traces from the 1964 Rourkela riots and the 1999 killing of Graham Staines through the 2007-08 Kandhamal riots to the Odia pride campaign that won the state.
Senior journalist Atul Aneja tells Nous why Washington and Tel Aviv are trapped in the war they started, and how a closed Strait of Hormuz, a strained petrodollar and an emboldened Iran are redrawing the region's economics — and India's choices.
Eight decades after the RSS first arrived in Odisha, a campaign built on Jagannath devotion and Odia identity has delivered BJP its first solo government in the state — alongside a rising toll of communal violence and mob lynchings.
Odisha, long seen as a syncretic “land of Jagannath,” is witnessing a profound shift. This piece traces decades of ideological groundwork, the BJP’s 2024 rise to power, and the surge in social unrest—examining how identity, politics, and history converge to reshape the state’s plural ethos.
As Israel–Iran tensions escalate, the crisis is no longer regional but systemic. This article examines how conflict in West Asia is disrupting energy flows, supply chains, and global markets—revealing the fragile links between geopolitics and the world economy.
Senior journalist Atul Aneja explains why Washington and Tel Aviv cannot easily walk away from the war they started, and why its fallout — from the Strait of Hormuz to the petrodollar — is already a global problem.
As global order grows volatile, deeper ideological fault lines surface. This article traces the intellectual lineage—from Syed Jamaluddin Afghani to Allama Iqbal—that frames resistance beyond geopolitics, as a contest over power, morality, and modernity.
In a conversation about Iran's Islamic Resistance Axis, scholar Syed Akif Zaidi traces a single line of ideas — running through Sunni and Shia thinkers alike — from a nineteenth-century itinerant preacher to the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader.
An Indian-born seminarian who has spent two decades training in Iran's holiest city argues that the Islamic Republic's restraint, and the resistance network it anchors, flow from a theology two centuries in the making, not from sect or state alone.
Historian Vijay Prashad unpacks the Iran–Israel–US conflict beyond headlines, tracing its roots in imperial power, shifting geopolitics, and narrative warfare. The discussion explores global order, sovereignty, and asks whether such crises are exceptions—or intrinsic to modern power.
In a wide-ranging conversation on the Nous Podcast, the historian argues that Iran's calibrated defiance, Israel's overreach, and India's quiet complicity are exposing the limits of Western imperial power in West Asia.
The historian argues that decades of Iranian preparation for a decapitation strike exposed the limits of American power, and that India's silence on the war traces back two decades before Narendra Modi.
The 2026 Israel–US war on Iran marks a turning point in global geopolitics, as conflict extends beyond battlefields into energy, technology, and economic systems. This analysis examines how it is reshaping power, alliances, and a rapidly evolving world order.
The political analyst argues that a month into open war, Iran has flipped the balance of power against Israel and the United States, and set out five conditions Washington cannot easily accept.
This conversation examines how the Iran conflict is shifting beyond conventional war into a broader contest over energy and infrastructure. As strategic targets expand, it explores the implications for regional stability, global markets, and the evolving nature of modern warfare.
