Big Lies

Big Lies

David Barsamian [Over the last decade, far-right nationalist movements have grown in power around the world. Citizens in England, Germany, Italy, France, Hungary, Poland, Brazil, and the United States are increasingly rejecting international partnerships, opposing immigration, and choosing blunt authoritarianism over messy democracy. To Benjamin Carter Hett, award-winning author of four books about Nazis and…

What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster For those concerned with the fate of the earth, the time has come to face facts: not simply the dire reality of climate change but also the pressing need for social-system change. The failure to arrive at a world climate agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009 was not simply…

Shahid Bhagat Singh

Shahid Bhagat Singh

September 28, 2019 marks the immortal revolutionary martyr Bhagat Singh’s 112th birth anniversary. On this occasion we are publishing the following article on Bhagat Singh. Introduction Shahid Bhagat Singh is widely recognised as perhaps the most famous and respected revolutionary of the freedom movement of India. Although he, along with his two comrades Sukhdev and…

The Politician: A Response to Arundhati Roy’s “The Doctor and The Saint”

The Politician: A Response to Arundhati Roy’s “The Doctor and The Saint”

Arundhati Roy’s “Introduction” to Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Edition titled “The Doctor and The Saint” appears to have been written more to attack Gandhi than to assess the contemporary relevance of this great book and/or the life and works of its author—Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Therefore, Ambedkarites might find some reasons to ignore the article….

The Presence of the Other: Religion and Society in Early North India

The Presence of the Other: Religion and Society in Early North India

I shall be taking up two intertwined themes: one is the recognition of what we have begun to call the Other, with a capital ‘O’. The second is the interface of this Other with established society and religion, which I shall be calling the Self, with a capital ‘S’. The interface naturally covers an unending…

The Story of Shack-Dwellers Movement in S. Africa

The Story of Shack-Dwellers Movement in S. Africa

Interview with S’bu Zikode [Land has always been central to the nationalist imagination in South Africa. But, after apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) did not act to democratise governance in the former Bantustans (land designated for black South Africans under apartheid), or to undertake serious land reform in the vastly larger areas under the…

Today’s Imperative: Gandhian Values

Today’s Imperative: Gandhian Values

(Third Shambhu Dutta Memorial Lecture, Organized by Transparency International India at IIC, September 9, 2019.) Preface to the Lecture I am grateful to Transparency International India for asking me to deliver the Third Shambhu Dutta Memorial Lecture. It is held in the memory of Shri Shambhu Dutta (1918-2016), the founding father of Transparency International India….

US Foreign Policy in Shambles: NATO and the Middle East.  How Do You Wage War Without Allies?

US Foreign Policy in Shambles: NATO and the Middle East. How Do You Wage War Without Allies?

I’m Bonnie Faulkner, on behalf of Guns and Butter. Michel Chossudovsky is an economist and the Founder, Director and Editor of the Center for Research on Globalization, based in Montreal, Québec. He is the author of eleven books, including The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, War and Globalization: The Truth Behind September…

What If We Covered the Climate Emergency Like We Did World War II?

What If We Covered the Climate Emergency Like We Did World War II?

(The following is an abridged version of remarks by TV newsman Bill Moyers, as prepared for delivery at the “Covering Climate Now” conference co-sponsored by The Nation and Columbia Journalism Review on April 30.) I have been asked to bring this gathering to a close by summing up how we can do better at covering…