Defiance
A poem, by the national poet of Palestine.
Hindenburg Report and Adani Crisis – Two Articles
“With Hindenburg, Adani Faces His Stiffest Challenge Yet”; and: “The Adani Crisis – Is Modi’s House of Cards at Risk?”. Adani personifies the oligarchic linkages and rentier profits generated by licensing system for infrastructure on which Modi’s growth model has heavily relied.
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‘The Cry Is “Lumumba Lives”—His Ideas, His Principles’
An interview with Friends of the Congo’s Maurice Carney about the assassination of Patrice Lumumba.
We Want No Caesars
In 1937, Jawaharlal Nehru was elected president of the Congress for the third time. Cognisant and cautious of the dangers of his own pride and position, he wrote this essay, in which he stressed the importance of questioning the motives of leaders, and checking the power they hold.
Why the Bharat Jodo Yatra Could Be the Harbinger of a Resurrection; Also: ‘Puja vs Tapasya’
The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ seeks to bring home to us the loss we are experiencing, and recalls us to a moral and systemic commitment that our leaderships prior to the era in hand had forged and nursed. Also: ‘Puja Versus Tapasya’: Why Rahul Gandhi’s Formulation Has Meaning.
India’s Green Energy Plan Signals Profit for Capital, Hot Air for People
The government’s plan amounts to bluster, for it will make paltry investment in lowering or ending greenhouse gas emissions from the industrial processes that use hydrogen.
Walking with Rahul: For a Politics of Grace, Compassion, Togetherness; Also: Conversations with Participants
It is imperative that we participate in any movement that calls for social embrace and conscientious action. Rahul must be applauded for walking the talk. If we do not join the Bharat Jodo Yatra, we are failing the nation and, above that, betraying our conscience. Also: Conversations with Participants.
European Far Right Saw Electoral Wins in 2022. Reversing Them Will Not Be Easy.
The far right continues to grow in Europe, with extremist parties gaining ground in Italy, France and Sweden.
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A War of Rhetoric & Reality
I do not want those waging war by rhetoric and display to win. I do not want the war waged by fanatical neoconservative ideologues to win. I do not want the imperium to win. I do not want the West to win so long as it insists intolerantly that the rest of the world observe its diktats.
Twenty-Two Years of Austerity in Timor-Leste: The IMF and Rebuilding the Neoliberal State from Scratch
Timor-Leste represents a new case in the dawn of the twenty-first century on how the IMF imposed a top-down neoliberal macroeconomic infrastructure and reform project from scratch.