Media Archive – Page 12

Featured, General, Ideas, Power

The Master’s House Is Burning: bell hooks, Cornel West and the Tyranny of Neoliberalism

November 22, 2015 by Guest 1 Comment

Neoliberal capitalism feeds on discrimination and alienation. The system is not broken. It is ontologically flawed and working just fine. Contemporary black intellectuals strive for a non-sexist, non-homo and -trans-phobic, and non-racist seat at the table versus a construction of a new table.

Featured, General, Inappropriate

The War Within France

November 20, 2015 by Shariq Salar No Comments

The United States and France have been jointly raining down freedoms & liberté over Middle-eastern lands for a while now. They have long been natural allies in the war-on-prettymuchanything. Brothers in arms. Their sense of loss is mutual as it appears is their shared sense of humanity.

General

Burn It Down: The Circumstances That Provoked Our Protest Video

November 18, 2015 by Guest 1 Comment

We created the Burn It Down music video to metaphorically burn down the current model, and express the anger, disgust, struggle and catharsis that comes with creating art.

Featured, Inappropriate

Narendra Modi – the mute, remote controlled PM.

November 14, 2015 by Abhimanyu Shankhdhar 6 Comments

When you read this, independent India’s 15th Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will be towards the end of his trip to the UK. A trip, which unlike his previous foreign tours, has been preceded with more than the usual amount of resentment

Featured, Power

My environmentalism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit

November 9, 2015 by Guest 2 Comments

The environmental movement will never save the planet unless it actively focuses its ire clearly on those who are most to blame for the crisis - the powerful.

General

The Importance of Being Black…in a White Novel

November 7, 2015 by Aravinda LS 1 Comment

To some readers what I have to say will be so painfully obvious that they would not even justify it with a “duh!” Others will need evidence. It is for them - and I was once one of them- that I write the details of my rude awakening to the...

Campaigns, Featured, Money, The story of poverty

Could you live on $1.90 a day? That’s the international poverty line

November 2, 2015 by Jason 2 Comments

Nothing has actually changed in the real world, of course; there are just as many poor people as there were before. But the development industry has been happy to take the new story on board, claiming gains against poverty that haven’t actually happened. The NGO community is celebrating the fact...