Rather than debating whether today’s far right is fascist, we need to think about fascization. Focusing on language and desire enables us to understand the process of becoming fascist, even within ourselves, and thus to resist it. Pierre Zaoui If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face… Read More On fascization
http://www.reporters-collective.in Check out Electoral Bonds Tracker page On Thursday, as SBI reluctantly parted with unique codes that link electoral bond donors to its recipients, it laid bare the secret give-and-take relationship between the corporate world and the political parties. The Reporters’ Collective bushwhacked through hundreds of corporate documents to make sense of the donations. Though officially… Read More Art of extracting money from loss-making firms, and more electoral bond stories
What happened to the 21st-century city? Smooth City: Against Urban Perfection, Towards Collective Alternatives – BY RENE BOER this sadness is felt by so many people who find a place for themselves in a city and who know what it means to see their spaces of security, community, and openness taken away in exchange for more… Read More A Seamless Dystopia
GAZA casualties live statistics Israel’s lawlessness has a history that those in the West share with the apartheid state. It is remarked often enough, including in this space, that Israel’s savagery in its determination to exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza — and we had better brace for what is next on the West Bank of… Read More Patrick Lawrence: Authorized Atrocities / Late-Imperial Duplicities
The infantilizing social control of the university. Rita Koganzon When I was a graduate teaching assistant at Harvard University a decade ago, one of my students missed a final exam because he forgot to set his alarm. I didn’t learn about this because he told me, in person or even by email; nor did he… Read More The Coddling of the American Undergraduate
People’s Archive of Rural India Ulopi Biswas was declared a ‘foreigner’ despite the family’s Indian citizenship and her own papers that prove her nationality. She was declared a D-voter, and went through a trial at Bongaigaon Foreign Tribunal in 2017-2022 to prove her citizenship. Kulsum Nissa and Sufia Khatun, who are out on bail from… Read More Facing history and ourselves
The wealth concentrated in the richest 1% of India’s population is at its highest in six decades and the percentage share of income exceeds that of countries including Brazil and the United States, research group the World Inequality Lab found. Since India, which won its independence in 1947 from Britain, opened its markets to foreign investment in 1992, its… Read More India’s richest 1% has highest concentration of wealth in decades, study shows
Martin Luther King Jr’s 1967 speech condemning the Vietnam War offers a powerful moral compass as we face the challenges of our time Michelle Alexander / The Nation This moment feels different. Something new is in the air. Of course, everything is always changing. Impermanence is the way of life. Philosophers, theologians, and poets have reminded us… Read More Only Revolutionary Love Can Save Us Now
By ALFRED MCCOY Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America. Great Britain confronted serious colonial crises in India, Iran… Read More Facing three global crises, the American empire may be nearing final collapse
Dear Friends, I am posting links to select recent articles, discussions and interviews. Discussion in Hindi on the Electoral Bonds Issue. HindiSatya.com on March 16. https://www.youtube.com/live/aXZXvim0OpM?si=RF4rNTKXPJfoAijt Discussion on Electoral Bonds and Why SBI wanted to delay giving the data. TV6 https://www.youtube.com/live/of4mjNS58DE?si=xsmc9On0RBGJqQ6G How Robust is India’s Growth. The Leaflet. March 5 https://theleaflet.in/gdp-data-for-q3-2023-24-the-mystery-of-a-robust-growth/ Nehru’s Contribution to Indian Economic Development. Outlook March 4 https://www.outlookindia.com/national/economic-modernist-to-populist-personalism-how-india-developed-post-independence… Read More Arun Kumar: Articles and talks on poverty, farmers, the budget and electoral bonds
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