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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · 8d

Think of Trump what you will he has unerring ability to stick his finger in every crack in society and his questions cant be dismissed. One of them on the purpose of the United Nations is the topic for my column below:

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Demands for slavery reparations are historical nonsense: NIGEL BIGGAR

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · 9d

Historical slavery was terrible with everyone all around the world at it for millennia. But demands for trillions in reparation are a ridiculous distraction when we should be more productively occupied dealing with today's injustices. www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...

Guilt can be good. It is healthy when it alerts us to having wronged someone and prompts us to put things right by apologising and repairing any damage we've done.

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Is the United Nations still relevant in 2025?

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · 11d

Around the UN’s 80th anniversary, much debate on it’s role. In this TRTWorld panel, I argue that we must go beyond the standard angst and lamentation about US conduct and Security Council reform. look forward to a new order of ditributed power & not cry over spilt mik. youtu.be/6ma49XNifNM?...

YouTube video by Roundtable

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Christian Aid instructs staff not to refer to “genocide” in Gaza

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · 13d

Suffering of Gaza people is exactly same whether or not it is described as genocide & using such language does not stop ongoing horrors Perhaps even makes resolution more difficult. Aid agencies have duty to help not posture. www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/09... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)

The move has angered many of the charity’s employees, who believe they are being censored and made to contradict what local partners are experiencing.

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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · 16d

An informative must-watch. With prevailing popular attitudes despite the few dissenting voices, in Israel, a two-state solution for Palestine - what is still left of it - is less likely than chances of hell freezing over. youtu.be/nMyyVaiY4V8?...

'Our Genocide': How do Israelis feel about the war in Gaza? | On the Ground

YouTube video by The Guardian

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China is sending its world-beating auto industry into a tailspin

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · 16d

Is this the Chinese economic model for success or a warning? www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Government policies that prioritize production targets over market demand have led to overinvestment by carmakers. The resulting glut of vehicles has created lose-lose transactions throughout the sales chain, and spawned a variety of irregular practices.

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‘I love life’: The man who has scheduled his death so he can enjoy living

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · 16d

With much respect and sympathy for the author of this piece who has dementia but “loves life” and deserves all compassionate support, it is hardly a convincing case for legalizing assisted suicide. There is no right to die and creating one is an immoral and dangerous trend. aje.io/v0r5bi

Despite Alzheimer’s, Alex Pandolfo leads a full life. But when his health declines, he plans to have an assisted death.

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(VIDEO) EPISODE 10: Should A Reporter's Camera Reflect or Frame Reality? with Ximena Borrazás

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · 28d

What is a photo-reporter wanting you to see & how does that shape perceptions? Listen/watch my “Fading Causes" podcast with the extraordinary Ximena Borrazas, we talk on sexual violence inTigray & much more: the power and responsibility of wielding a camera in war www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs0E...

EPISODE 9: Can We Afford Pessimism In Difficult Times? with Kul Gautam

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Sep 5

As the #UN celebrates its 80th anniversary, why should the disappointed hordes continue to place faith in its original ideals? Kul Gautam, ex-Deputy Exec Director of UNICEF tries to convince me in the latest episode of my “Fading Causes” podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Qx...

Opinion | Where There’s No Debate About Genocide — and No Response Either

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 30

It does not matter whether “genocide” or “famine” are called out, or where… whether Gaza or Darfur, Sudan.: Where There’s No Debate — and No Response Either www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 30

True - but only if an editor doesn’t change the true sense of what a writer is saying. I have come across too many editors who do that - perhaps they are simply frustrated writers

Cathy Haglington @cathyhaglington.bsky.social · Aug 29

Don't overlook #editors who assist #writers!
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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 28

The world is learning to live with the Taliban
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from The Economist

The world is learning to live with the Taliban

Four years after the fall of Kabul, governments are quietly recognising the insurgents

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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you think you knew all about African slavery, you are gravely mistaken. My latest conversation on The Fading Causes Podcast exposes some uncomfortable facts beyond the white-man-enslaving-the-black narrative. Listen www.youtube.com/watch?v=-onQ...

EPISODE 8: Why Is The History Of African Slavery Kept Hidden? with Martin Plaut

Starvation is a preferred atrocity of war. But how long can this go on? | The National

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 22

On the day that Gaza City is officially declared to be in famine, my latest article reflects on the long history of why food deprivation has always been a slow but most efficient weapon of war and is the preferred least-cost atrocity to inflict on opponents. www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comm...

Countering the weaponisation of food requires limiting the duration of wars

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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 22

Proportion of civilian deaths in Gaza approaches the levels seen in recognised genocides Rwanda and Srebrenica and if you add the civilian & unknown status proportions in Sudan which is skewed by Darfur genocides.

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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 21

Returning to Afghanistan: Peace Changed the Village Where War Changed Me www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/w...

Peace Changed the Village Where War Changed Me

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EPISODE 7: Can We Ever End Poverty And Hunger? with Mohsen Sarhan

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 21

To really end poverty and hunger requires turning conventional wisdom on development practices on its head. That is the basis of my latest Episode 7 of the Fading Causes Podcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSil...

Sudan army torturing people to death, says rights group

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 18

#Sudan
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Emergency Lawyers group alleges the army is operating "execution chambers" in the capital.

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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 16

As cholera surges in Darfur and spreads around Sudan and perhaps wider, it is important to say as it is in relation to world's biggest humanitarian and human rights crisis. My remarks via TRTWorld www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Su...

Africa Matters: Sudan War Cost

YouTube video by TRT World

EPISODE 6: Is Optimism For Tackling Climate Change And Migration Justified? with Ovais Sarmad

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 12

Two key issues for our time: climate change and migration. Should we be optimistic or despairing over how well we are dealing with them? In my latest ‘Fading Causes Podcast' , I talk to Ovais Sarmad, former high UN official who dedicate his life on that. Listen:
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‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam

Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 8

While the London peace conference on #Sudan was convening in April,, one of the biggest massacres in #Darfur was unfolding. The awful and tragic irony of it.. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held i...

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Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila.bsky.social · Aug 8

Good to hear that at last, as I suggested at the very beginning, UN agencies are talking on cooperation with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation instead of constantly badmouthing each other. For the sake of people of Gaza work together & maximise aid delivery www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/08...

International aid agencies hold secret collaboration meeting with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

The meeting flies in the face of previous public statements from top humanitarian officials describing the GHF as “unacceptable” and “disturbing”.

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