India’s billionaire wealth is on display as nation votes
Sonali Kolhatkar : THERE are several exercises in extremes playing out in India right now. Nearly a billion people are voting in elections that will last into early June, braving ReadMore
Big bang: Israel’s path to self-destruction
Daniel Beaumont : IN STRIKING at the Iranian consulate in Damascus on April 1 Bibi Netanyahu has made himself an April Fool. Israel has been bombing Syria for years with ReadMore
Fazlul Haq: champion of peasant cause
AS WE observe the death anniversary of Sher-e-Bangla AK Fazlul Haq, we pay homage to the life and memory of a politician and activist who brought the peasant issue to ReadMore
Landless Brazilians and Gaza
Vijay Prashad: THE mass food drive for Gaza was also a campaign to contest the growth of Christian Zionism in the country and deepen ties with the Palestinian struggle. Brazilian ReadMore
Iran’s strategic patience is spent
Direct retaliatory strikes mark a new phase of the Islamic Republic’s conflict with Israel, writes As`ad AbuKhalil BY ALL accounts Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel was unprecedented. It wasn’t US ‘shock ReadMore
Palestinians as ‘the Others’
Ralph Nader: THROUGHOUT history, military empires have reduced their victims, their subjugated, and their abducted to a state of ‘the Others.’ The political and mass media institutions usually follow suit ReadMore
Hamas challenges myth of unbeatable Israel
Shahjahan Khan: OVER more than a century of aggressively pursuing a process of de-Arabisation of Palestine before and after the creation of the state of Israel for the settlement of ReadMore
Politics of self-defence
by Sikander Ahmed Shah : ISRAEL’S April 1 attack on Iran’s diplomatic compound in Damascus — which killed senior Iranian military commanders — was a clear and unprecedented violation of ReadMore
