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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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  • The Weakness of Progressive Latin American Governments in These Precarious Times: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2024)

    Unwilling to accept election results in Venezuela, the OAS, led by the US, passed a resolution essentially asking the country to violate its own election laws. Many countries with supposedly centre-left or left governments have joined the US in proposals that seek to undermine Venezuelan democratic processes, a reflection of the contradictions confronting the current…

  • 2,000 Years of Kindness

    By Maria Popova “Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now,” Jack Kerouac wrote in a beautiful 1957 letter to his first wife turned lifelong friend. “Kindness, kindness, kindness,” Susan Sontag resolved in her diary on New Year’s Day in 1972. Half a century later, the Dalai Lama placed a single exhortation…

  • To Confront Rising Neofascism, the Latin American Left Must Rediscover Itself

    Originally published: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research  on August 13, 2024 (more by Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research)  |  (Posted Aug 15, 2024) Latin AmericaCommentaryFeatured Túlio Carapiá and Clara Cerqueira (Brazil), Hybrid Wars, 2020. Introduction The new Latin American progressive wave has created great expectations among the left, not only on the continent but across the world. Though institutional victories over the far right…

  • Blood remembers

    Young Kenyan protesters hold a Kenyan flag over the body of a fellow youth killed by the police during peaceful protests in Nairobi, Kenya, on 25th June 2024. (Photo: Festo Lang) Originally published: The Elephant  on August 12, 2024 by Renny Kipkorir (more by The Elephant)  |  (Posted Aug 15, 2024) Human Rights, Inequality, Movements, ProtestAfrica, KenyaNewswire Vox Populi, Vox Dei.” Alcuin of…

  • You can’t feed hungry bellies with hate

    You can’t feed hungry bellies with hate Dear friend, Last week, India celebrated its 78th independence day. At the helm of the bombastic celebrations at the Red Fort in New Delhi was prime minister Narendra Modi, on the back foot for the first time, reeling from losing the majority in Parliament in the June elections which…

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