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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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  • Prof. Jeffrey Sachs’ Testimony to the UN Security Council — November 20, 2023

    November 20, 2023 Mr. President, Ambassadors, Secretary-General Guterres, NDB President Rousseff, distinguished diplomats, ladies and gentlemen, My name is Jeffrey D. Sachs.  I am University Professor at Columbia University. I am a specialist in the global economy and sustainable development.  I appear before the UN Security Council on my own behalf.  I represent no government or organization…

  • The Jeffrey Sachs-Tucker Carlson interview: the most important interview ever?

    Bombshell insights from world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs on the Russia-Ukraine war, CIA coups, American super-imperialism, the origins of Covid, the Kennedy assassination and much more THOMAS FAZI JUN 05, 2024 I don’t know how many of you out there suffer from my same “condition”, but I can only really digest information in written form. This…

  • Democracy à la Modi

    Autocracy, with Indian characteristics By Prashant Kidambi Narendra Modi, 2024|© Vipin Kumar/Hindustan Times/Getty Images May 31, 2024 Read this issue IN THIS REVIEW GUJARAT UNDER MODI Laboratory of today’s India416pp. Hurst. £30. Christophe Jaffrelot THE INCARCERATIONS BK-16 and the search for democracy in India672pp. William Collins. £30. Alpa Shah At the dawn of the twenty-first century…

  • The ANC and South Africa’s radical left, 30 years after the first post-apartheid elections: An interview with Mazibuko Jara

    Mazibuko Jara Federico Fuentes 27 May, 2024 On the eve of South Africa’s May 29 general elections, Federico Fuentes from LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal spoke to veteran South African socialist Mazibuko Jara about the African National Congress’s (ANC) prospects of holding onto power after 30 years in office, and how some of the new right and…

  • Britain’s century long Opium trafficking and China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’ (1839-1949)

    By Stansfield Smith (Posted May 30, 2024) Imperialism, Political Economy, State Repression, StrategyAmericas, Asia, Britain, China, Europe, India, United StatesNewswireFeatured, Opium, Opium Trade For the Chinese, the trauma of the Century of Humiliation continues as a blunt reminder of their past defeat and neo-colonial servitude, as well as a reminder of the West’s self-righteous hypocrisy and arrogance. In…

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