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…
“Democratic systems may hold elections, but those elections are largely
ceremonial, moments in which the public is invited to endorse decisions already
taken by small groups.”
— John Ralston Saul, Voltaire's Bastards, p. 52.
Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election marked a seismic shift in American politics. Regardless of one's political alignment,…
"Justice is what love looks like in public”
- Cornel West in The Radical King, 2015
Gustavo Gutiérrez, the influential Peruvian priest and theologian widely recognised as the "father of liberation theology," passed away on October 22, 2024, at 96. His pioneering ideas, especially those expressed in his seminal 1971 book A Theology…
"We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims."
— Daniel Berrigan, in various speeches and writings, on peace and social justice.
In 2013, Kshama Sawant, emerged as a beacon of change in American politics. In 2015 she was called the most dangerous woman in America. Born in Mumbai and…
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…
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…
“Before the war, I used to feel that Gaza was my second mother. Its ground was the warm chest I could lay on, and its sky was my dreams… without limits. The sea would wash away my worries. But today I feel it’s an exile, I stopped feeling it’s the city of my dreams.”
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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…
“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…
“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…