Aviva Chomsky In the colonial view of the world — and, in its own strange fashion, Donald Trump’s view couldn’t be more colonial — White European colonizers were embattled beacons of civilization, rationality, and progress, confronting dangerous barbaric hordes beyond (and even, sometimes, within) their own frontiers. Colonial violence then was a necessary form of… Read More Trump Faces Palestine
NB: The lecherous drunkard Hegseth recently said ‘Zionism & Americanism are the front lines of Western civilisation and freedom in our world today.‘ If that is so, both are doomed, and will take ‘western civilisation’ crashing down with them. Israel and the USA now stand forth as the greatest danger to humanity; led by pathological… Read More Top 5 Ways Netanyahu kept Hamas in Power
Are we in that moment, in the belly of a bubble that has burst and taken ‘liberal democracy’ along, kicking and screaming, or perhaps not? Are we living the Hobbesian description? One of the ennobling gifts of literature is the light it shines on our essential condition beyond the frontiers of time or context or… Read More Sankarshan Thakur: Bubble democracy
1/ He went to bed, turned on the BBC World News and switched it off again. Half-truths. Quarter-truths. What the world really knows about itself, it doesn’t dare say. John le Carre, Our Kind of Traitor; 2011, p 241 2/ We live in very remarkable times. We find with astonishment that progress has concluded an alliance with… Read More Reflections on ideology, morality and conscience
NB: The source of the above wisdom by America’s new Secretary of Defense is this fact-sheet. There are many others sources. Here are the latest figures of genocidal mayhem in Palestine accomplished by the vanguard of civilisation – viz, the USA and its proxy, Israel. Both main American political parties were and continue to be,… Read More Zionism & Americanism are the front lines of Western civilisation and freedom in our world today: Pete Hegseth US Secretary of Defense
Trump’s Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argues that “Zionism and Americanism are the front-lines of Western civilization and freedom in our world today” — pedals the usual absurdity that the Hebrew Bible, written 4,000 years ago, can be used to draw contemporary national borders. Chris Hedges Christian Nationalists who form the bedrock of support for Donald Trump… Read More Trump’s Christian Fascists and the War on Palestine
Chris Hedges Education is meant to be subversive. It gives students the ability and the language to ask questions about reigning assumptions and ideas. It questions dogma and ideology. It can, as Zinn writes, “counteract the deception that makes the government’s force legitimate.” ************* The attacks on colleges and universities — Donald Trump’s administration has warned some… Read More Trump’s War on Education
Sasanka Perera On February 26, 2025, Yashada Sawant, an Indian student from the South Asian University (SAU) was publicly assaulted by Ratan Singh and a gang of goons with clear affiliations to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The attackers’ grouse was that fish was being served on Maha Shivaratri and Sawant’s ‘crime’, as the university’s mess secretary,… Read More Neighbourhood Lost: The End is Nigh for South Asian University
In the weeks leading up to the recent presidential inauguration in Washington, this country and an anxious world expected many different things from what might be called, to borrow the title of a famed William Butler Yeats’s poem, “The Second Coming” of Donald J. Trump. But nobody expected this. Nobody at all. “We will restore… Read More Alfred McCoy: Slouching Towards Mount McKinley
NB: A very useful appraisal. The sentence “I believe that during the unipolar moment, we were deeply committed to spreading democracy”, is jarring however. American foreign policy has never been committed to democracy but to its strategic interests of global dominance. It would announce its grand intentions only in so far as the ideology (as… Read More The USA’s role in the Ukraine crisis (2022)
After the truth-shower 