Joe Biden was discarded by the same billionaire class he assiduously served throughout his political career. The Democrats will anoint another amoral politician, probably Harris, to use as a mask for outsized corporate greed, the folly of endless war, the facilitation of genocide and the assault on our most basic civil liberties. By CHRIS HEDGES 22July, 2024 […]
Our only hope is to organize the overthrow of the corporate state that vomited up Trump. By CHRIS HEDGES 14 July The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian […]
এবারের লোকসভা ভোটে উত্তরবঙ্গে বিজেপির ভোট সর্বত্র কমেছে, তবে তৃণমূল উত্তরের মাটিকে জিতে নিতে আবারও ব্যর্থ হল। তৃণমূল পাহাড়বাসীর কাছেও সমতলের দল হয়ে রয়েছে। যা তৃণমূলের ভাববার প্রয়োজন। লিখলেন রুপম দেব। এবারের লোকসভা ভোটে উত্তরবঙ্গে বিজেপির ভোট সর্বত্র কমেছে, তবে তৃণমূল উত্তরের মাটিকে জিতে নিতে আবারও ব্যর্থ হল। কোটি কোটি টাকা খরচ করে […]
নীলাঞ্জন দত্ত ১৪ জুন, ২০২৪ “Anyway defeat has to be accepted. There should be no attempt to explain it away. However, the whole campaign should be closely analysed so that the pitfalls may be avoided in future” — Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya, Organiser Weekly, Political Diary, June 3, 1963 ভোটের ফল আশানুরূপ না হলে […]
…ক্ষিদে, রোজগার, বাঁচার অধিকারের দাবীকে দিকভ্রান্ত করা যায় না মোষ, মঙ্গলসূত্র হারানোর ভয় দেখিয়ে, নিরন্তর ঘৃণার বিষ ছড়িয়ে আর আতঙ্কের বাতাবরণ তৈরি করে। তাই বহু মানুষ প্রত্যাখ্যান করেছেন বিদ্বেষের সংস্কৃতি। লিখলেন শুভজিৎ সিংহ। সদ্য সমাপ্ত লোকসভা নির্বাচনের শেষ দু’মাস প্রধানমন্ত্রী নরেন্দ্র দামোদরদাস মোদীর সভাগুলোর রাজনৈতিক ভাষণে অহিন্দুদের প্রতি ক্রমাগত ঘৃণা বর্ষিত হয়েছিল। দেশের […]
What happened to the middle class in the United States? The rich ate it. By FRANCES MOORE LAPPÉ May 09, 2024 Almost 90 percent of us think of ourselves as being “middle class,” but we’re way off. In 1970, 62 percent of Americans did qualify; but by 2021, our shrinking middle class was down to 42 percent. By […]
Ahead of elections in India, a series of films that promote the ruling party’s right-wing ideology are seeking to influence voters. An art historian explains how the trend started. By Preminda Jacob, University of Maryland, Baltimore County As the largest electorate in history goes to the polls in India from April 19 to […]
এ ভারতে বিগত ১০ বছরে শুধু সংসদ প্রধান রাজনীতি-অর্থনীতি, কর্পোরেট প্রধান সমাজ-সংস্কৃতি মানেই দুর্নীতি। এবং পুরো ব্যবস্থাটাই, একে অন্যের সঙ্গে জাপটে-জুপটে, লেপ্টে-লুপ্টে, নোংরা কাদা মাখামাখি এমনই “শুয়োরের খোঁয়ার” হয়ে আছে যে, সে বিষয়ে “চোরের মায়ের বড় গলা” শুনতে যাওয়া, অংশগ্রহণ করা, উপস্থিত থাকা, হাত তুলে হলেও “বাংলার দুর্নীতিতে ঘোর বিচলিত” হওয়া আসলে এই দুর্নীতির রাজনীতিকে […]
British courts for five years have dragged out Julian Assange’s show trial. He continues to be denied due process as his physical and mental health deteriorates. This is the point. By CHRIS HEDGES MAR 27, 2024 Prosecutors representing the United States, whether by design or incompetence, refused — in the two-day hearing I attended in London in February […]
In May 2013 I resigned from PEN America over the appointment of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state. PEN America peddles agitprop. It is our version of the Union of Soviet Writers. The human rights violations by our enemies are heinous crimes and our own, […]
From Keral to Uttar Pradesh, from Punjab to Bihar, women “social workers” are getting organised and raising their voices so high that even the congenitally deaf ruling powers have been paying some attention to the demands and issues. By Kumar Rana Groundxero | March 23, 2024 (Transcript of a keynote address given at the […]
The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile. CHRIS HEDGES MAR 18, 2024 Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting […]
The Democratic Party had one last chance to implement the kind of New Deal Reforms that could save us from another Trump presidency and Christian fascism. It failed. CHRIS HEDGES MAR 18, 2024 Joe Biden and the Democratic Party made a Trump presidency possible once and look set to make it possible again. If […]
What is truly shocking is that despite the RBI and ECI expressing their reservations about the scheme before it was formalized in 2018, the BJP government has all along been more concerned with safeguarding the anonymity of donors giving money to political parties than with upholding the citizens’ right to knowing who is financing the […]
How the ‘Jan Vishwas Rally’ has infused a new life in the INDIA Alliance block in Bihar, a commentary by Anish Ankur from Patna. Bihar is continuously posing a political challenge to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) from the last one and half month. The 3 March ‘Jan Vishwas Rally’ was the […]