Yearly Archives: 2026

The GCC on fire: US bases, Iran’s missiles, and the day Trump told the world’s most powerful oil king to kiss his **s

The American fortress in the Gulf For three decades, the United States built one of history’s most elaborate military basing networks across the six GCC states. Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar — the largest US airbase in the Middle East — houses 10,000 troops and nearly 100 aircraft. Bahrain...

Dhurandhar Part One: When Cinema Becomes the Propaganda Department

A long Easter weekend. Four days of silence, rest, and finally some time to watch the films that everyone has been arguing about. Good Friday rolling into Easter Sunday, and abroad — unlike India — Sunday leave spilling into Monday as compensatory time off. That is a workplace culture India...

SHEIN’s “Circularity Study” Is a Mirror. And India’s Weavers Are Paying the Price.

SHEIN just published a report. 15,000 customers. 21 countries. Branded as a circularity study. The headline finding: their customers are actually quite responsible. They wear clothes 50 times before discarding. They care about price. The problem, SHEIN concludes, is lack of recycling infrastructure. Convenient. Very convenient. Because what the report...

The Complete, Unfiltered Trump: Birth to Billionaire to Bluster

From an immigrant’s grandson to the most disruptive president in American history — every chapter, every contradiction, every scandal, laid bare. Donald John Trump is the only man in American history who managed to go bankrupt six times, get impeached twice, get indicted on 91 criminal counts, lose an election,...