By Raffique Shah
April 05, 2026

It would seem preposterous if any nation that is involved in US President Donald Trump’s fantasy warfare (in which the carnage is impossibly real) were to pronounce victory.

Or even more absurd would be claims of having devastated and dismantled what was left of the camp that Palestinians were forced to call home, because the rubble left behind by Israel’s constant bombardment of Gaza cannot be called anything but camps in the Bedouin tradition. Still, since Trump appeared to be enjoying the puerile digital war, one cannot dismiss his sharing of digital targets for practice on live ranges with equally live targets.
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By Raffique Shah
March 28, 2026

In Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire, a Marxist educator of yesteryear, wrote that education should be a practice of freedom, empowering the oppressed to achieve critical consciousness and transform society.

With this transformation, I suppose he dared to engender a society so far removed from ignorance that there would be no chance of large swathes of the world wallowing in abject poverty where crime remains a foremost option.
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