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The Modus Operandi of Brutalism: Anti-Empathy of Musk and the Financialization of Nations

In economic parlance, Elon Musk emerges as a private limited government libertarian, who invariably recommends a reduction in government spending, hiking the H-1B visa fee and suggesting an annual fee to it so that hiring foreign workers becomes more complex and taxing, while also repealing such regulations that hinders the growth and expansion of his…

ByOm Prakash DwivediMarch 29, 20250Comments

The Anatomy of an arrest: Mahmoud Khalil and the State

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” ― George Orwell, 1984, p.162 “Where exactly are we in the poem that begins, ‘When they came for the Communists, I did not speak out’?” Alluding to the poem by Martin Niemöller, the question echoed across the stone steps of a New York…

ByNarendra PachkhédéMarch 22, 20250Comments

Globalism and Entrepreneurs: The Incubators for Brutalism

The year 2024 was termed a “global election super cycle,” as over 70 countries held general or national elections. While the outcomes varied, what emerged as the defining feature of the elections was an accentuated form of demagoguery and corporatism. Efficiency, productivity, optimization, trade wars, and climate denialism – all for the sake of a select…

ByOm Prakash DwivediMarch 18, 20250Comments

For Whom the Door Remains Ever Open

The Land of Disappearances and Mass Graves In Balochistan, loss is not always marked by funerals. Some families never get to bury their loved ones, never receive a body, never know what happened. Their pain remains in the unanswered calls, the uneaten meals, the empty spaces in gatherings, and the doors that are never closed,…

ByDilshad BalochMarch 14, 20250Comments

Brutalism: The Next Liberal Order of the 21st Century

At the end of the Cold War, Francis Fukuyama pronounced, ‘what we may be witnessing [is] the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government’? What was predicted as the acme of civilizational development has instead turned into a perennial catastrophe for humanity,…

ByOm Prakash DwivediMarch 11, 20250Comments

Gaza Is Not for Sale: Sovereignty Isn’t a Real Estate Deal

"In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things... can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and…

ByNarendra PachkhédéFebruary 19, 20250Comments

Voltaire’s Bastards Strike Again: How the Tyranny of Rationalism Lost America’s Vote

“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,…

ByNarendra PachkhédéNovember 9, 20241Comment

Gustavo Gutiérrez: The Lifelong Call for Justice in Liberation Theology

"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…

ByNarendra PachkhédéNovember 6, 20240Comments

“No votes for genocide”: The Building of An Independent Anti-War Movement

"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…

ByNarendra PachkhédéNovember 1, 20241Comment

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…

ByShaj MohanOctober 26, 20240Comments