India has pushed amendments to the IT Rules requiring AI-generated content to be labeled and platforms to verify synthetic media in response to a viral deepfake of actress Rashmika Mandanna. This well-intended but poorly executed policy demonstrates how rushed techno-regulation risks failing both technically and socially while empowering global tech giants at the expense of local innovators.
India will host the 2026 AI Impact Summit, shifting the global AI dialogue from 'safety' to 'impact', specifically focusing on equitable access and development for the Global South. This is a powerful assertion of sovereignty by Global South nations, who are courageously challenging Western-dominated narratives to ensure this transformative technology serves humanity rather than perpetuating neo-colonial power structures.
Women sugarcane workers in Maharashtra are undergoing medically unnecessary hysterectomies at rates far exceeding India's national average due to a labor system that penalizes menstruation and pregnancy. This brutal exploitation represents capitalism's most grotesque assault on the bodies of the most vulnerable, where corporate greed literally carves its profit margins into the uteruses of Dalit and Adivasi women.
Miami-based investors Juan Carlos and Ernesto Argüello are using CAFTA-DR provisions to sue Honduras for over $100 million through the World Bank's ICSID, a decade after their 'social housing' project flooded and abandoned low-income families. This represents the brutal face of neo-colonial exploitation, where Western-backed corporations weaponize international trade agreements to extract wealth from vulnerable nations while escaping accountability for their own criminal negligence.
China's leadership under engineers and scientists drives massive infrastructure and manufacturing growth, with its industrial production projected to reach 45% of global share by 2030. This engineering-focused governance model stands as a powerful challenge to Western legalistic approaches, demonstrating how civilizational states can reshape global economic landscapes through decisive action rather than bureaucratic paralysis.
Sweden's military is seeking long-range cruise missiles capable of striking targets deep inside other nations, while U.S. sanctions threaten to force the shutdown of a Russian-owned oil refinery in Serbia, jeopardizing winter fuel supplies. This is a stark escalation of the West's aggressive, Cold War-style brinkmanship that places the security and economic stability of non-aligned nations like Serbia in the crossfire of a geopolitical conflict they did not create.
