Another right-wing vigilante walks free in the USA. The fact that I was even mildly hopeful Kyle Rittenhouse would get some prison time only proves my eternal optimism. Once again, that optimism was misplaced. After all, it is the United States of America that I’m talking about; a nation whose history is replete with stories… Read More Ron Jacobs: A Land Where Justice is a Game
Investigators are ramping up criminal probes into former President Donald Trump, and two legal experts argue that Trump may not even be able to count on his few remaining lawyers to help him. Writing in the Washington Post, legal experts Donald Ayer and Norm Eisen argue that Trump’s decades-long evasion of legal accountability may now finally be coming to… Read More BRAD REED: The walls appear to be "rapidly closing in" on Donald Trump / Chris Hedges – America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy
21 नवंबर 2021 श्री नरेंद्र मोदी, प्रधानमंत्री, भारत सरकार, नई दिल्ली. *विषय: राष्ट्र के नाम आपका संदेश और आपके नाम किसानों का संदेश* प्रधानमंत्री जी, देश के करोड़ों किसानों ने 19 नवंबर 2021 की सुबह राष्ट्र के नाम आपका संदेश सुना। हमने गौर किया कि 11 राउंड वार्ता के बाद आपने द्विपक्षीय समाधान की बजाय एकतरफा घोषणा… Read More संयुक्त किसान मोर्चा : श्री नरेंद्र मोदी, प्रधानमंत्री, भारत सरकार – राष्ट्र के नाम आपका संदेश और आपके नाम किसानों का संदेश
The farmers’ greatest weapon against the police and its ideological militia was non-violence Prime Minister Modi, who was unbeatable in Parliament – and used his party’s brute majority to push through the farm laws without proper debate–has been subdued in the street by peoples’ power. The Central government’s climb-down on the three controversial farm… Read More Bharat Bhushan – 'Entire political science' lesson: Peoples' power trumps people in power
The edits invariably ended on the appeal: but do not withdraw these laws, they’re really good. Did any of these publications once tell their readers – on the standoff between farmers and corporates – that Mukesh Ambani’s personal wealth of 84.5 billion dollars was closing in fast on the GSDP of the state of Punjab… Read More P. Sainath: Farmers win on many fronts, media fails on all / रवि आजाद BKU HARYANA | Kisan Ekta Morcha
NB: This is the first major setback for the corporate gangsters running India’s people and its democracy into the ground with their greed and arrogance. Perhaps the Supreme Court will reflect on why they did not take direct notice of the government making uniform laws for the whole country on what is a state subject.… Read More Farm laws repealed – Huge victory for India's agricultural population after a year-long non-violent struggle, and hundreds of lives lost
‘Post-truth politics may have started on the left bank of the Seine, but they ended up in the White House… postmodernism is intended to be subversive. Since civilisation works by order and authority, challenging these things is bound to seem disruptive. The trouble is that neoliberalism challenges them too. Nothing is more fluid and flexible than… Read More Book review – How We Became Postmodern
“Ultimately, you look at the global economy that we’ve created over the last 40 years, the neoliberal global economy – that’s what’s driving climate change. And no wonder, because the logic at the heart of that economy is that there is no right more important than the right to make profit…” NB: An excellent article.… Read More Adam Ramsay: World leaders failed us at COP26. But change doesn’t come from glitzy conferences
Despite a Supreme Court ruling forbidding further extensions in service to the Director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), the Narendra Modi government has gone ahead and given a second one year extension to Sanjay Mishra. For this an ordinance was promulgated barely four days before Mishra was to demit office and two weeks before Parliament’s… Read More Bharat Bhushan: Incentivising pliant bureaucrats at the helm
You do not fight Hollywood with critical argument. You fight Hollywood with Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Suleiman, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Moufida Tlatli, Ousmane Sembène, Yasujirō Ozu, Guillermo del Toro, Mai Masri, ad gloriam. You do not battle misrepresentation. You signal, celebrate, and polish representations that are works of art…. The recent release… Read More Hamid Dabashi: Hollywood Orientalism is not about the Arab world. It's about the American world
After the truth-shower 