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    FO° Talks: Freebies, Religion and Corruption: The Brutal Reality of India’s Politics

    Fair Observer’s Video Producer Rohan Khattar Singh speaks with Dhruv Jatti, a young Congress spokesperson from Karnataka, India, about how Indian democracy functions. The country’s elections are often explained through ideology, religion or social media narratives. Drawing on his experience in both rural and urban politics, Jatti strips away abstraction and focuses on turnout, money,… Continue reading FO° Talks: Freebies, Religion and Corruption: The Brutal Reality of India’s Politics
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    Why Strategic Partnerships Fail to Build Power in the Global South: Lessons from Pakistan

    Strategic partnerships are often presented as pathways to development for the Global South. Yet from Latin America to Asia and Africa, they have delivered finance and infrastructure without the technological capabilities needed for lasting transformation. As geopolitical competition intensifies, the key question is no longer who partners with whom, but who controls technology, learning and… Continue reading Why Strategic Partnerships Fail to Build Power in the Global South: Lessons from Pakistan
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    Governance Without Legitimacy: The Kurdish Region’s Descent into Stagnation

    For more than three decades, particularly since 1991, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has been presented as a semiautonomous polity with its own institutions and an ethnically distinct identity. But beneath that veneer of autonomy lies a more troubling reality.  Corruption has deteriorated the region, and it is not an aberration in the Kurdish… Continue reading Governance Without Legitimacy: The Kurdish Region’s Descent into Stagnation
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    South Yemen at a Crossroads: Saudi Arabia’s Risky Political Gamble

    Recent events in Yemen’s south reveal a rapidly shifting political and security landscape shaped by external intervention, internal mobilization and deep uncertainty over southern governance. At the center of these changes stands Saudi Arabia, which has increasingly taken the political initiative in the south — a role previously shared with the United Arab Emirates (UAE).… Continue reading South Yemen at a Crossroads: Saudi Arabia’s Risky Political Gamble
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    This Isn’t a Pretti Good Story!

    Alex Pretti’s martyrdom in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the hands of a group of excited Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents followed hard upon Renée Good’s two weeks earlier. Watching the video of these spontaneous public executions of what appear to be ordinary American citizens has led many caring souls in the United States and across… Continue reading This Isn’t a Pretti Good Story!
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    Heroic Kurdish Fighters in Kobani Now Forgotten and Besieged

    The Kurdish town of Kobani was once the center of the struggle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) when it was besieged by ISIS in 2014, and eventually, Kurdish fighters were the first group to defeat the onslaught of ISIS with American support. But the town is now besieged by America’s new… Continue reading Heroic Kurdish Fighters in Kobani Now Forgotten and Besieged
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    When Consent Collapses: State Violence and Social Breakdown in Iran

    In the past couple of weeks, the Islamic Republic of Iran has carried out what is likely the most extensive episode of organized state violence in the country’s modern history. In response to a mass uprising rooted in economic collapse and social exhaustion, the regime has killed an estimated 12,000–20,000 unarmed civilians. The precise number… Continue reading When Consent Collapses: State Violence and Social Breakdown in Iran
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    Deadly Institutional Collapse: America Watches as Inhumanity Triumphs

    Once upon a time, in the “exceptional” land known as America, there were foundational federal government institutions that generally acted to meet specified and legally sanctioned policy objectives. Sometimes, these objectives were met imperfectly, but often they were met. In today’s America, foundational federal government institutions are failing to even try to meet specified policy… Continue reading Deadly Institutional Collapse: America Watches as Inhumanity Triumphs
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