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  • Farmer hounded by loan sharks to sell kidney

    A Facebook community and a WhatsApp group set Roshan Kule on the road from Chandrapur to Cambodia, via Kolkata. PARI investigates. The Minthur series: Part II – Organ Trafficking Author Jaideep Hardikar Editor Harshita Kalyan Photo Editor Binaifer BharuchaSee all credits On his modest smartphone, Roshan Sadashiv Kule opens his Facebook account and scrolls through…

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  • Columbia Protests Now and in ‘68

    BY JONAH RASKIN FacebookTwitterRedditEmail Protests in and around Columbia University in support of Palestine and against Israeli occupation. Photograph Source: SWinxy – CC BY-SA 4.0 The student protests on the campus of Columbia University this April have reminded me of the protests that took place there 56 years ago. Along with about  700 or so other men and…

  • Don’t Look Left by Atef Abu Saif review – in the line of fire

    This article is more than 1 month old A Palestinian author and politician’s devastating eyewitness account of the Israel-Gaza war as he saw his relatives killed Helena Kennedy Thu 14 Mar 2024 07.30 GMTShare It is hard to describe the cumulative effect this devastating chronicle has over 280 pages. It describes a mounting toll of…

  • Herbert Marcuse – New Left Revival?

    in Book Review by Robert Hunziker 20/04/2024 Share: Share onWhatsAppShare onFacebookShare onX (Twitter)Share onTelegramShare onRedditShare onEmail World events serve as a stage of constant search for how best to construct and maintain society, which is an underlying theme of some decades ago found in the works of Herbert Marcuse, 1898–1979, German-American philosopher of prominent fame during the…

  • The risks that U.S. inflation brings to the rest of the world

    Opinion14:44, 23-Apr-2024 C. Saratchand Homeless people on the streets of San Francisco, California, U.S., February 26, 2024. /CFP Editor’s note: C. Saratchand, a special commentator on current affairs for CGTN, is a professor at the Department of Economics, Satyawati College at the University of Delhi in India. The article reflects the author’s opinions and not necessarily…

  • Is This What Hell Looks Like?

    A 500-year-old warning… Culture CriticApril 24, 2024 Read time: 6 minutes The gap between medieval and modern art might seem unbridgeable. But there is one painting that connects the two — and it’s as strange as you might expect. Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights is more than a visual masterpiece. It holds the keys to some big questions:…

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