‘The Cell and the Soul’: The Mirror to Indian Democracy in Anand Teltumbde’s Prison Memoir
The memoir transforms personal suffering into a forensic examination of institutional decay.
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The memoir transforms personal suffering into a forensic examination of institutional decay.
‘The UN Embraces Colonialism: Unpacking the Security Council’s Mandate for the U.S. Colonial Administration of Gaza’; ‘Why Did Russia Abstain From the Latest UNSC Resolution on Gaza Instead of Veto It?’; ‘Weapons of Willpower: Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Trump’s Gaza Plan’.
As Israel continues its genocide, more stealthily than before its relentless bombing came to an end, it is unpardonable that its continuing depravity towards Palestinians in its network of grotesque torture prisons continues to be largely ignored.
The struggle against fossil capitalism is inseparable from struggles for justice in the Middle East.
‘Syria Comes In from the Cold’; ‘Trump Meets with Former al-Qaeda Leader Ahmed al-Sharaa at the White House’: In reality, the regime headed by al-Sharaa is a bloody Islamist dictatorship, operating in alliance with US imperialism and in de facto alliance with Israel.
‘How Military Keynesianism Works’: How capitalism generates war and civil conflict. Also: ‘Capitalism and Endless War’: Europe is on the war path with grandiose plans for building a war economy akin to the American military-industrial complex.
‘$70 Trillion in Inherited Wealth Shows Global “Inequality Emergency” Spiraling Out of Control’; ‘New Wealth of Top 1% Surges by $33.9 Trillion since 2015 …’; ‘More than 400 Million Children Globally Live in Poverty’; ‘500+ Experts Worldwide Call for Global Panel to Address Inequality Emergency’; ‘Analysis Details Billionaire Takeover of US Politics’.
In Latin America, the international right wing has repeatedly used AI and bot strategies to generate very vague anti-government discontent in anti-imperialist countries like Cuba, Venezuela and Ecuador (under Correa).
Can Ukrainian President Zelensky survive a kickback scheme involving the state nuclear company that enriched associates and possibly even ministers in his own government, asks the author.
Jayati Ghosh illuminates how capitalism has exacerbated inequality not only due to market forces, but as a result of how wealthy countries and firms based within them have tilted the scales toward themselves, disenfranchising the rest of the world in the process. This pervasive economic inequality undermines the idea and practice of true democracy.
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