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  • Claustropolis: 1984

    “Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…

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  • BRICS plans ‘multi-currency system’ to challenge U.S. dollar dominance: Understanding Russia’s proposal

    By Ben Norton (Posted Oct 24, 2024) Originally published: Geopolitical Economy Report  on October 19, 2024 (more by Geopolitical Economy Report)  |  Imperialism, Inequality, Movements, Political EconomyAfrica, Americas, Asia, EuropeNewswireBRICS nations (Brazil – Russia – India – China – South Africa), G77+China, IMF (International Monetary Fund), New International Economic Order (NIEO), World Bank The Global South-oriented organization BRICS has released plans to transform the…

  • From “Notes on Nationalism”

    From “Notes on Nationalism” First published in Polemic, October 1945 The Orwell Foundation Oct 30, 2024 Somewhere or other Byron makes use of the French word longueur, and remarks in passing that though in England we happen not to have the word, we have the thing in considerable profusion. In the same way, there is a habit of mind…

  • The slow birth of the new world

    Dear friend, Four major multilateral meetings have come and gone. Together, they exposed the increasing brittleness of Western power, the fictitiousness of the “International Rules-Based Order” designed to uphold it, and the blindness of its architects to the system that is slowly dislodging them from their seats in the high castle. In Washington, D.C., the…

  • How the US origin myth triumphed over history

    The myths of origin that give the United States its distinctive character and political culture remain potent, in spite of a lack of historical underpinning.John Gast’s 1872 painting, American Progress, an allegorical respresentation of manifest destiny. Credit: GRANGER – Historical Picture Archive / Alamy Stock Photo The myths of origin that become hegemonic within states…

  • The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Rome’s Greatest Artist How he became the “Michelangelo of his century”

    Bernini’s self-portrait — here 25 years old Gian Lorenzo Bernini was history’s greatest sculptor, and undoubtedly one of its greatest architects. His influence on the Eternal City was so significant that one Pope told him “You were made for Rome, and Rome was made for you.” Yet despite this, his name was largely forgotten —…

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