"Read Hamish McDonald’s biography of the Ambani family, not Budget documents, to understand the unceasing increase in Indian income and wealth inequality." Ashoka Mody's excellent piece for Frontline frontline.thehindu.com/economy/budget… Get the Frontline app: fline.news/flapp

Evergreen 'They Will Call You Violent' extract in Let This Radicalize You (Puff the Magic Hater & NYC Tw*tterati)

There has never been a war in history where 80% of the country has been destroyed, 100% of the population displaced, and 50% of the deaths children. Call it what it is: GENOCIDE.

Mind-blowing new research from NaomiOreskes shows definitively that climate change was on the minds of members of Congress as they drafted the Clean Air Act -- and that even schoolchildren were being alerted to the risks, way back in 1958: grist.org/science/lost-h…

Dems have to listen. This is not about niceties or identity politics but accountability. Democrats cant be leading a genocide for 10 months and demand respectability politics by threatening that the alternative is worse. Genocide is not better if facilitated w empathy. #Gaza

ever since i read about the weapon israel used to kill those kids - not an explosive bomb, but a weapon the pentagon and CIA developed in secret that blasts knives out to slice people to pieces - i couldn't stop thinking about that maxim: "the purpose of a system is what it does"

144 Adivasis have been killed so far in 2024 and 46+ agreements signed with multinational companies in Bastar, Chhattisgarh. Writer Bela Bhatia Bela Bhatia shared findings from Citizens Report on Security & Insecurity in Bastar with us in JNU. Join at Press Club @ 3 pm today.

It is a very distinctively English thing: anything said with a mouth full of marbles is evidence of brilliance. For my sins, I've had twenty years of listening to bigoted rubbish articulated with a posh accent & an air of authority.

This is a map of how stupid they think you are when they say they're targeting Hamas and killing everyone by accident.

“every single [doctor and nurse] saw young children sniped to death in Gaza with deliberate shots to head and chest.” Over 3 weeks since the Politico article, and 2 weeks since the open letter was sent, and still not a word of coverage in any of the major American newspapers.

Big news: AAUP ends their opposition to academic boycotts! Israeli academic institutions have helped Israel destroy Palestinians’ academic freedom, including killing thousands of students & faculty and bombing every university in Gaza. AAUP now affirms our duty to boycott them!

“we find that existing tools like FPIC can and must be strengthened through Indigenous and local guidance, but that justice, in a broader sense, cannot be achieved without returning land and broader legal reforms” #landback #justice #latinamerica tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Dr. Jumana Arfa. the mother of newborn twins, a boy and a girl, updated her social media profile on August 10th to share the news of her twins, Asser and Aysel, with her family and loved ones.

This is real Nazi shit and deserves to be called that.

BREAKING: Time is fast running out for President Biden to pardon me after my illegal contempt “conviction” and imprisonment at the hands of Chevron — the first corporate prosecution in our nation’s history. To help, please sign the letter at freedonziger.com and call

My new book, SPEAKING FOR NATURE: THE ORIGINS OF INDIAN ENVIRONMENTALISM, is out next month. It profiles ten thinkers who, in different but equally compelling ways, anticipated the environmental challenges that face India and the world today. More details below.

Social and cultural barriers often exclude women from aquaculture and allied jobs. In Odisha, women are breaking the barriers that exclude them. An oral history of women’s foray into fish work in Odisha by Shamsheer Yousaf, Monica Jha and Sriram. thewire.in/special/a-pond…

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It's no longer the case that China only exports Bad Clothes and that the US only makes Good Clothes. In fact, we have a ton of sweatshops in Los Angeles churning out crappy fast fashion. US companies also rely on global supply chains for their production.

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