NB: One of the favorite (and cringeworthy) terms in Indian mass media is ‘Indian origin’. Well, ladies and gents, here’s an ‘Indian origin’ racist for you. DS It wasn’t long ago that Patel refused to condemn football fans who booed as England players kneeled in protest against racial injustice. Taking the knee was dismissed by… Read More Priti Patel and English racism. By Anita Mureithi
The 45th president is out of office and Michael Wolff has brought his Trump trilogy to a close. First there was Fire and Fury, then there was Siege, now there is Landslide. The third is the best of the three, and that is saying plenty. Three years ago, Trump derided Fire and Fury as fake news and… Read More Book review: Michael Wolff’s third Trump book is his best – and most alarming
The world didn’t expect much from Edward Bellamy, a reclusive, tubercular writer who lived with his parents. Yet if he lived small, he dreamed big, and in 1888 he published a phenomenally successful utopian novel, Looking Backward, 2000-1887. It told of a man who fell asleep in 1887 and awoke in 2000 to electrified cities,… Read More Daniel Immerwahr: The Strange, Sad Death of America’s Political Imagination // AV Lecture: How to Hide an Empire
For more than a generation of economic globalisation, to turn the old adage on its head, it seemed to many that ‘wealth is health’. In the bargain, as everything, including health, came seemingly to rest on the willing shoulders of money, huge fortunes were made and all but universally sought, in what has come to… Read More Aseem Shrivastava and Rupert Read – Does globalisation make ‘Covidisation’ inevitable?
Mediazona, a media outlet focusing on law and justice, spoke with workers at three different enterprises who took part in last year’s protests to find out how they happened. As part of our coverage of Belarus, openDemocracy has translated and republished this article with permission here. Alexey Karlyuk, 35, is from the town of… Read More Alexey Shuntov – Strike, exile, arrest: what happened to Belarusian workers?
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s dream run up the global wealth rankings is faltering after a media report raising questions about some offshore investors triggered a rout in his conglomerate’s six listed stocks. The 58-year-old tycoon has lost more money this week than anyone else in the world, with his personal fortune tumbling by about $13.2… Read More Gautam Adani Lost More Money This Week Than Anyone Else in the World
The left-wing author slammed Democrats as well as Republicans during the interview, stressing that Democrats moved away from New Deal economic policies during the centrist presidencies of Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s and Bill Clinton during the 1990s. “By the late 1970s — the late Carter years — the Democrats basically told the working… Read More Noam Chomsky explains why 'vicious class war' on American workers prevails / AOC blasts colleagues for feeding 'right-wing vitriol'
“What progress we are making! In the middle ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.” Late in May 1938, an 82-year old Sigmund Freud and his family were in Vienna eagerly awaiting the final details to be sorted before they could leave their country for good. There was no… Read More “I can most highly recommend the Gestapo to everyone” – Sigmund Freud, 1938
For the philosopher of “hyperobjects”- vast, unknowable things that are bigger than ourselves – the coronavirus is further proof that we live in a dark ecology. In 2013, a philosopher and ecologist named Timothy Morton proposed that humanity had entered a new phase. What had changed was our relationship to the nonhuman. For the first… Read More Book review: Timothy Morton’s Hyper-Pandemic
According to the IEA, just one country, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), currently supplies more than 80% of the world’s cobalt, and another — China — 70% of its rare-earth elements. Similarly, lithium production is largely in two countries, Argentina and Chile, which jointly account for nearly 80% of world supply, while four… Read More MICHAEL KLARE: Lithium, Cobalt, and Rare Earths
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