The notion that the war would end if Hamas was overthrown or surrenders is as ahistorical as it is false…We should end the charade that this is an Israeli war against Hamas. We should call it what it is: a joint U.S.–Israeli war against the people of Gaza. Indeed against Palestinians as a people. Jeremy… Read More This Is Not a War Against Hamas / Top ten US Politicians taking Israel Lobby Cash
This work of a lifetime presents high-octane, high-political drama – and attempts to rehabilitate the ‘bourgeois’ provisional government that preceded the Bolsheviks Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 – By Robert Service Reviewed by Pratinav Anil This is, by my count, Robert Service’s 12th book that touches on the Russian Revolution, either substantively or… Read More Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution
Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame: Revelation 16:15. More than 100 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes late on Sunday in the centre of the besieged Palestinian territory, including at least 70 in bombings that hit a residential block in the Maghazi refugee camp near… Read More Israel murders over 100 Palestinians in a designated safe zone. Christmas Day, 2023
The tragic relationship between Israelis and Palestinians is not a hurricane or earthquake. It is a human-made problem, and it can have human-made solutions. Indeed, we humans are the only ones who can solve it… Well said, and happy Christmas, Santa. May God bring peace to Palestine I criticized the war in Gaza. Then I… Read More I was fired from my job as Santa / Jesus the man
Aryaman Jain The oil corporations and the government wanted to build the world’s largest oil refinery in Ratnagiri. First they tried to build it at Nanar. The people resisted and the refinery was not built in Nanar. Then they tried to build it at Barsu-Solagaon. The people resisted and the refinery was not built in… Read More The Economy is broken. Let’s start again.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced: James Baldwin Jon Schwarz Israel prefers endless conflict to a Palestinian state. ISRAEL HAS BEEN widely condemned for its brutal response to the October 7 terrorist attacks by Hamas. With the coming expiration of the ceasefire, this will only… Read More All the Times Israel Has Rejected Peace With Palestinians
By Jacob Mikanowski DECEMBER 18, 2023 What distinguishes war from genocide? When does state violence tip over from horrific yet legally sanctioned displays of military force into “the crime of all crimes,” according to both international law and the popular imagination? This question has been much on Omer Bartov’s mind in recent months. A professor at… Read More A historian of genocide sounds the alarm
“If Hindu Raj does become a fact, it will, no doubt, be the greatest calamity for this country.” — B.R. Ambedkar In a recent talk in Bengaluru, the writer, Parakala Prabhakar, made a perceptive observation about the changing language of political discourse. In the late 1980s, when the Bharatiya Janata Party was first becoming a… Read More Ramachandra Guha: Reign of faith
Bharat Bhushan The protestors in the Parliamentary attack of December 13, 2023 were clearly naive, and their method patently criminal. But even while policing failures are examined threadbare, their political message should not be lost. Ignoring caste and regional affiliations, they just wanted to send a message to the entire political class about youth unemployment. They appear… Read More No jobs and a bleak future: Has the political class failed India’s youth?
Despite the violence it has unleashed on Palestinians, Israel is failing to achieve its political goals. TONY KARON and DANIEL LEVY It may sound daft to suggest that a group of armed irregulars, numbering in the low tens of thousands, besieged and with little access to advanced weaponry, is a match for one of the world’s most… Read More Israel Is Losing This War
After the truth-shower 