Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi is at serious risk of deportation

by Giovanni Marenda (originally published on meltingpot.org) We are witnessing with great anguish and concern the escalating risk of deportation of Abdulrahman Al-Khalidi, Saudi Arabian activist and journalist, an asylum seeker in Bulgaria for almost four years arbitrarily locked up in a detention center as a “threat to national security.” On March 26, the Sofia Administrative Court made […]

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Trump, Musk, and the Fascism of Algorithms: The New Digital Leviathan? From Inauguration Day to New Global Balances: How Trump’s Return and Musk’s Technological Dominance Are Redefining Democracy, Capitalism, and Social Control.

By El Indio (original article in Italian published on Globalproject on January 31, 2025)translation by the editorial team of Globalproject It has been just over a week since Donald Trump’s (re)inauguration at the White House, and the political-media ecosystem has been flooded with an unprecedented wave of inputs. From Elon Musk’s raised-arm salute to the […]

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Overtourism, when tourism stops being travel and becomes a shortcut

by Tiziana Barillà translation by Giovanni Marenda Summer 2024 was the season of struggles against overtourism, the ideology of tourism as the panacea for all economic and social ills that is turning our territories into playgrounds where everything is allowed. Falling wages, loss of quality of life, perpetual noise and housing speculation are the consequences […]

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Firehose of Falsehood: How far-right used TikTok to spread lies and conspiracies

by Anastasiia Morozova (Frontstory), Iulia Stānoiu (Context.ro), Eva Stefankova (Investigative Center of Jan Kuciak), Josef Slerka (Investigace.cz), Kaili Malts (Delfi), Petra Blum (Westdeutscher Rundfunk – WDR), Zalán Zubor (Atlatszo)Illustration by Josef Slerka Firehose of Falsehood is a joint investigation by 10 independent media outlets in the EU. The aim of the research was to analyze […]

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Italy intensifies crackdown on civilian search and rescue ships

by Giovanni Marenda Abstract: The article focuses on the recent and increasing repressive actions by the Italian state against the so-called civil fleet, which monitors and rescues shipwrecked people in the Central Mediterranean migration route. In particular, it refers to the blockade and preventive detention of three NGO ships – Humanity 1, Sea-Watch 5 and […]

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