Originally published: Liberation News  on June 30, 2022 by Sameena Rahman (more by Liberation News)  |  (Posted Jul 06, 2022) WarAmericas, Asia, China, Europe, United StatesNewswireNew Cold War, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Leaders of the member countries of the imperialist NATO military alliance concluded their annual summit in Madrid today. This summit was a clear display of NATO’s commitment to continuously fuel…

Despite award wapsi and boycotts, the Academy and Krishna will easily weather this storm – but these conversations need to happen. By:Swaroop Mami 23 Mar, 2024 TM Krishna and Music Academy.|Prachi Dureja In 2015, Carnatic vocalist TM Krishna made an announcement – he would not sing during the famous December music season anymore. He’d previously…

3/19/2024 Heideggerian thought is everywhere. A list of thinkers influenced by Heidegger reads like a “who’s who” of famous twentieth century philosophers. Foucault said: “For me, Heidegger has always been the essential philosopher.”[1] Derrida once called Heidegger “the great unavoidable thinker of the century.”[2] Sartre conceived of Being and Nothingness while reading Heidegger’s “What is Metaphysics?” Deleuze acknowledges the…

3/19/2024 This is a section from the introduction to the author’s edited and introduced anthology, Marxism and the Dialectical Materialist Worldview: An Anthology of Classical Marxist Texts on Dialectical Materialism. Dialectical Materialist Ontology ​In his Dialectical Materialism, Henri Lefebvre uses Marx’s Capital and Engels’s Dialectics of Nature to say that “the laws of human reality cannot be entirely different from the laws…

BY MARIA POPOVA “We must believe before we can doubt, and doubt before we can deny,” W.H. Auden observed in his commonplace book. Half a century earlier, Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970), the great poet laureate of reason, addressed the central equation of free thinking in his 1922 Conway Memorial Lecture, later published as Free Thought and Official…