Climate Crisis and the Age of the Super-Typhoon: Storms batter, flood Puerto Rico, Pakistan, Japan and Shanghai

JUAN COLE A mere category 1 hurricane dumped so much water on Puerto Rico so quickly that one of its rivers has swollen to 25 feet above normal, even more than it rose during Hurricane Maria in 2017, which was a Category 5 hurricane. The island is beset by flash floods, and is getting 16-30 inches… Read More Climate Crisis and the Age of the Super-Typhoon: Storms batter, flood Puerto Rico, Pakistan, Japan and Shanghai

24th September 2022 Dilip

Mahsa, a National Iranian Symbol of Resistance

FARIBA AMINI In the summer of 1993, I went to Iran to visit my parents who at the time were living in Tehran on and off. We had left Iran six months after the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and I had not returned until 1993. I remember the atmosphere at the time, which was quite… Read More Mahsa, a National Iranian Symbol of Resistance

24th September 2022 Dilip

The Publicity-Shy Funds Backing Gautam Adani’s Massive Empire

Andy Mukherjee – Bloomberg Gautam Adani’s rise to the No. 2 spot in global wealth rankings, crafted chiefly from shares traded in the local market, deserves to be in the spotlight – as much as a poster child of Narendra Modi’s “Make in India” self-reliance as an opportunity for some much-needed transparency about the tycoon’s… Read More The Publicity-Shy Funds Backing Gautam Adani’s Massive Empire

23rd September 2022 Dilip

Decentralizing the Cold War: an interview

One of the interesting points that you make is how we in the West think of Solzhenitsyn in terms of his The Gulag Archipelago published in 1973. We think of Solzhenitsyn as a human rights actor. But that’s not the role that he plays where Ukraine is concerned. Your argument is that Solzhenitsyn is, as it were,… Read More Decentralizing the Cold War: an interview

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Jamal Khashoggi’s wife to sue NSO Group over Pegasus spyware

Daniel Boffey The wife of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is preparing a lawsuit in the US against the spyware maker NSO Group, claiming she was targeted with the Israeli company’s Pegasus software. Hanan Elatr, 52, is also planning to sue the governments of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for their involvement in the alleged attempts… Read More Jamal Khashoggi’s wife to sue NSO Group over Pegasus spyware

23rd September 2022 Dilip

Historic photos of Russia in 1917

First posted January 19, 2013 Hundreds of historic photographs documenting a young Yale graduate’s travel to Russia during the start of the Russian Revolution have been discovered a near century later by his granddaughter after tucked away in his California home. Opening an old metal chest after her grandfather’s passing, more than 500 hand-painted glass slides… Read More Historic photos of Russia in 1917

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Chris Hedges: Strike, Strike, Strike

The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes. The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the pandemic and… Read More Chris Hedges: Strike, Strike, Strike

22nd September 2022 Dilip

CALL BY THE PETROGRAD SOVIET TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD; March 28, 1917

Comrade-proletarians, and toilers of all countries: We, Russian workers and soldiers, united in the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, send you warmest greetings and announce the great event. The Russian democracy has shattered in the dust the age-long despotism of the Tsar and enters your family of nations as an equal, and as… Read More CALL BY THE PETROGRAD SOVIET TO THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD; March 28, 1917

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Protests in Russia against mobilisation – in pictures

NB: The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a popular protest against war. It began spontaneously on International Women’s Day, February 23 (March 8); and was led by women. Soldiers of the Petrograd 66,000 strong garrison refused orders to shoot the protesters, leading to the collapse of the Tsarist regime and the emergence of the Petrograd… Read More Protests in Russia against mobilisation – in pictures