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Palestine Lebanon Extermination Camps: Call to Arms
POLITICS
Palestine Lebanon Extermination Camps: Call to Arms
14 October 2024 The ongoing extermination of the Palestinian people and the bombing of Lebanon should not be blamed on Israel alone. It is America that has been waging wars across the world since they dropped the atomic bombs in Japan, and the present crimes against humanity and genocide are American crimes through the…
Archiving the Present: The Power of the Poster
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Archiving the Present: The Power of the Poster
All I’m really interested in at the moment is trying to say to people,  ‘Look, one of the great problems of our time is that there seems to be no other alternative to the political ideas of our time.”  - Adam Curtis, British Filmmaker, Chris Darke, Interview: Adam Curtis, July 17, 2012 How do we…
Muslims Don’t Matter
POLITICS
Muslims Don’t Matter
BOOK REVIEW: "Muslims Don’t Matter: Sayeeda Warsi’s Candid Dissection of Britain’s Relationship with Islam", Bridge Street Press, London, 3 Oct 2024 Barely in the two decades since the infamous 9/11 marker, Muslims are right at the centre of the political discourse of assertive liberalism and more evident. Caught between the rampant Islamophobia in everyday…
One Year After Gaza: Reckoning with a Genocide Ignored
POLITICS
One Year After Gaza: Reckoning with a Genocide Ignored
“At the dawn of decolonization, Palestine was colonized. I recall my utter confusion at this irony of history.”                 — Eqbal Ahmad, 1994 One year after the relentless bombardment of Gaza that followed the horrific events of October 7th, as Hamas launched an attack,  we are compelled to confront an unsettling truth: Is this the…
“It’s Bisan from Gaza, and I’m Still Alive”
POLITICS
“It’s Bisan from Gaza, and I’m Still Alive”
“The assassination of a journalist is not only the murder of a voice, but an attempt to annihilate the right of the world to know, to understand, and to bear witness to suffering.”  – Shireen Abu Akleh, Al Jazeera’s Palestinian-American journalist, killed                                         by Israeli sniper on 11 May 2022 The 25-year-old Palestinian journalist…
The author with Pankaj Mishra
Philosophy POLITICS
A Kidnapped West in the Times of Genocide
"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.” — Karl Kraus in Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind), 1919 One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.  —Karl Kraus, in Harry Zohn (ed.), Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths -…
Macron Lives Up to ‘Le Disrupteur’ Title
POLITICS
Macron Lives Up to ‘Le Disrupteur’ Title
(This is the Second Part of the French Politics and Elections essay. Read the first part here) "The issue of the whole was that what with opposition, and what with success, a violent and malignant zeal, of a kind hitherto unknown in the world, had taken an entire possession of their minds and rendered their…
Rescuing Western Politics Under Gaza’s Moral Burden
POLITICS
Rescuing Western Politics Under Gaza’s Moral Burden
By Narendra Pachkhédé "The attempt to politicize everything is the destruction of politics. When everything is                seen as relevant to politics, than politics has in fact become totalitarian."                 ― Bernard Crick, In Defence of Politics, (Second Edition), 1981 In these fraught times, with the 2024 Democratic National…
Larry the cat
POLITICS Fiction
Larry the cat
Dave the Rave has all the moves. Verily, is he the Lord of the Dance. Yet no one or their cat noticed the sky turning black upon his return. Only I saw the devil on his back as he leads us towards post-Brexit temptation.  But something is afoot. Mark my words. These tea-guzzling-biscuit-gobbling Fat Cats…
Your Privileges Are Not Universal
POLITICS
Your Privileges Are Not Universal
Stencilled in red on the walls of Santiago, Chile is a statement of fact: ‘your privileges are not universal’ (tus privilegios no son universales). This is a factual declaration because the privileges of power and property are not shared across the gaping class divide. Consider the fact that before the pandemic struck last year, over…