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The Lost Innocence of Playing: Why Games are Becoming the New Cultural Battlefield Between the Far Right and its Opponents

Steve Bannon studied World of Warcraft players before he built Breitbart's alt-right pipeline. Ten years after GamerGate, games are still where the far right recruits, and where its opponents are learning to fight back The post The Lost Innocence of Playing: Why Games are Becoming the New Cultural Battlefield Between the Far Right and its Opponents appeared first on Untold .

Resistance Archives: How Hezbollah’s FPV Drones Documented Israel’s Destruction of South Lebanon

Israel has destroyed over 20,000 South Lebanese homes and set up military forts. Hezbollah's insurgent media transformed destruction into a counter-archive, making occupation visible and reframing resistance The post Resistance Archives: How Hezbollah’s FPV Drones Documented Israel’s Destruction of South Lebanon appeared first on Untold .

Punk, BDS, and Manga: How Palestinian Resistance Connected Japan’s Fragmented Movements

Japanese BDS campaigns forced companies to cut weapons ties with Israel. Palestinian solidarity now connects punk, feminist, anti-nuclear, and anti-colonial movements. For activists, the memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki makes Palestine's resistance their own The post Punk, BDS, and Manga: How Palestinian Resistance Connected Japan’s Fragmented Movements appeared first on Untold .

The Joke That Isn’t: Inside Egypt’s “Hahaha Jihad” Against LGBTQ+ People

Threats, tracked locations, coordinated pile-ons: this is what it costs to be visibly queer online in Egypt The post The Joke That Isn’t: Inside Egypt’s “Hahaha Jihad” Against LGBTQ+ People appeared first on Untold .

In Cyprus, Israelis are Buying up a lot of Land and Some Fear it is Another Colonisation

Thousands of people have left Israel and bought land in Cyprus, an island divided between the EU and Turkey where property has been in dispute since 1974. Meanwhile, movements and businessmen close to the Israeli far right are increasingly visible The post In Cyprus, Israelis are Buying up a lot of Land and Some Fear it is Another Colonisation appeared first on Untold .

From Nepal, to Indonesia, and the Philippines: The Children of Remittance Take to the Streets

The recent uprisings across the Asia-Pacific region carry a quieter thread: protesters raised by absent, migrant-worker parents are refusing to inherit a future built on leaving The post From Nepal, to Indonesia, and the Philippines: The Children of Remittance Take to the Streets appeared first on Untold .

The Cockroach Revolt: How India’s Youth Uprising Is Cracking Modi’s Electoral Autocracy

Behind the marches is a jobs crisis crushing the young, an exam industry built on suicides, and billionaires thriving as they erode democracy around them The post The Cockroach Revolt: How India’s Youth Uprising Is Cracking Modi’s Electoral Autocracy appeared first on Untold .

The Disposable Ones: How Albania’s Land-Grabbing State Bred the Flamingo Revolution

Long before Kushner's resort, Rama's Albania was already clearing land of the people who lived on it: pyramid schemes, hydropower dams, tourism permits, one dispossession at a time The post The Disposable Ones: How Albania’s Land-Grabbing State Bred the Flamingo Revolution appeared first on Untold .

More Scars Than Traces: Christopher Nolan Filmed His The Odyssey in Messenia, But Can the Region Survive the Spotlight?

The same wild coastlines and ancient fortresses that drew Hollywood's cameras are straining under rising heat, overtourism, and a resort model draining the land dry The post More Scars Than Traces: Christopher Nolan Filmed His The Odyssey in Messenia, But Can the Region Survive the Spotlight? appeared first on Untold .

Beyond FIFA’s World Cup: The Rules We Actually Play By

Western leaders are fighting over the rules of the new global order. The sports their societies love most can tell us more about what is at stake than almost anything being said at major summits The post Beyond FIFA’s World Cup: The Rules We Actually Play By appeared first on Untold .