Are liberals and populists just searching for a new master?
Are liberals and populists just searching for a new master? A book excerpt and interview with Slavoj Zizek , author of “Like a Thief in Broad Daylight” OPEN FUTURE by N.B The rise of populism, nativism and nationalism in recent…
“Becoming” By Michelle Obama – Mainstream Lying, Genocide Ignoring & Holocaust Ignoring
By Dr Gideon Polya “Becoming” by Michelle Obama is an inspiring, feel-good story of how a working class African-American woman became a Harvard graduate, corporate lawyer, perfect mother and thence First Lady of the US. However “Becoming” has numerous extraordinary …
How the BJP is able to win over the voter’s mind
Sugata Srinivasaraju I ET There is already a voluminous heap of analyses and commentary on the general election results. It may not be pragmatic to look back anymore, but to look ahead. In fact, the new Lok Sabha has…
Vidya Bhushan Rawat I Countercurrents.org Congress leader Pawan Khera says that ‘liberals’ abused the Congress party the most and at the same point of time, ‘expect’ it do the miracle. I dont claim to be one such person and…
FT.com Sanjukta Pandey quit her job as a hair and make-up stylist in March to devote herself to Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s re-election campaign on social media. Ms Pandey, a feisty 32-year-old wearing huge hoop earrings, neon pink lipstick…
Energy, Economic Growth, and Ecological Crisis
Can economic growth continue forever? This relatively simple question has posed some intellectual headaches for modern capitalism. In the Grundrisse, Karl Marx argued that capital cannot tolerate any limits, by which he meant that the drive for growth and the…
How India’s Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years
The five-year period of 2014-2019 has seen such an explosion of media creation and media use in India that the answer to the question, who is the media, has become, literally, everybody. The Indian public sphere is increasingly mediated not…