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ew's original editors Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman, who fought back successfully. In the subsequent global upsurge against capitalism, imperialism and the commodification of life (in shorthand “1968”) Monthly Review played a global role. A generation of activists received no small part of their education as subscribers to the magazine and readers of Monthly Review Press books. In the intervening years of counter-revolution, Monthly Review has kept a steady viewpoint. That point of view is the heartfelt attempt to frame the issues of the day with one set of interests foremost in mind: those of the great majority of humankind, the propertyless. TODAY -- Monthly Review has had but 6 editors. The original editors were Paul Sweezy and Leo Huberman. Leo Huberman died in 1968, and Harry Magdoff became an editor in 1969. Ellen Meiksins Wood served ably as editor in the period 1997-2000. In May 2000 John Bellamy Foster and Robert W. McChesney, themselves of the "1968" generation and educated by Monthly Review, took over the primary editorial responsibilities. Founding editor Paul Sweezy died on February 27, 2004, and a special issue devoted to his work appeared in October 2004. On June 1, 2004 Robert McChesney ceased to be formally designated as an editor, while continuing as a contributor and a Director of the Monthly Review Foundation, the not-for-profit entity that operates both Monthly Review magazine and Monthly Review Press. Harry Magdoff died on New Year's Day, 2006. A special issue focusing on his contribution to the understanding of capitalism and imperialism appeared in October, 2006. John Bellamy Foster, the current editor, continues the tradition of combining accounts of what is new (without falling for fads) with the equally vital task of seeing the longer process. That tradition, as summarized by Paul Sweezy, is to see the present as history. On July 14th, 2006 we began a daily web magazine featuring a broad range of articles, reviews and commentary. Revenues from subscriptions and the sales of books have always fallen short of the demands on Monthly Review's resources. This is inevitable; in today's world any anti-imperialist and socialist enterprise that finds its resources sufficient to the tasks we face must either be moribund or false. The contributions—over and above subscriptions and book sales—of a global community of several thousand people sustain Monthly Review. Monthly Review today places most of its articles on the web and our daily web magazine has attracted a substantial and growing readership. If you have found our website of value, please consider subscribing to the magazine or, better yet, becoming an Associate.

Operating as usual

“We want in our country this: To have no more exploitation of our people, not by white people nor by Black people. We do...
03/26/2023

“We want in our country this: To have no more exploitation of our people, not by white people nor by Black people. We don’t want any more exploitation. It is in this way we educate our people—the masses, the cadres, the militant…"

charted a path towards revolutionary education. His work influenced Paolo Friere, outlined here by Curry Malott in

https://www.newframe.com/how-amilcar-cabral-shaped-paulo-freires-pedagogy/

Max Ajl  is a researcher at Ghent University and the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment.Here ...
03/26/2023
Part I: Max Ajl

Max Ajl is a researcher at Ghent University and the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment.

Here at the launch of Rob Wallace's "The Fault in Our SARS" he speaks on reconsidering apartheid dualisms in eco-development.

In late winter of 2023, a community of radical thinkers and doers convened around "The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era," a new book by Rob Walla...

Howard Waitzkin is a social medicine activist, professor, and author, most recently of "Social Medicine and the Coming T...
03/26/2023
PART I: Howard Waitzkin

Howard Waitzkin is a social medicine activist, professor, and author, most recently of "Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation".

Here at the launch of Rob Wallace's "The Fault in Our SARS" he speaks on “Science as Ideology".

In late winter of 2023, a community of radical thinkers and doers convened around "The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era," a new book by Rob Walla...

David Frum and Max Boot, two neoconservatives who helped grease the wheels for the invasion of Iraq, have some thoughts ...
03/25/2023
Bush-era neocons should shut the f**k up about Iraq (and everything else) | MR Online

David Frum and Max Boot, two neoconservatives who helped grease the wheels for the invasion of Iraq, have some thoughts they’d like to share with us as we approach the 20th anniversary of that horrific and unforgivable war. Caitlin Johnstone

David Frum and Max Boot, two neoconservatives who helped grease the wheels for the invasion of Iraq, have some thoughts they’d like to share with us as we approach the 20th anniversary of that horrific and unforgivable war.

Adia Benton  is a cultural anthropologist at Northwestern University. Here at the launch of Rob Wallace's "The Fault in ...
03/25/2023
PART II: Adia Benton

Adia Benton is a cultural anthropologist at Northwestern University.

Here at the launch of Rob Wallace's "The Fault in Our SARS" she speaks on policing function and/of/within public health.

This video with Adia Benton, author, HIV Exceptionalism and “Race, epidemics, and the viral economy of health expertise,” is one of over a dozen talks from t...

That “one notable exception” was a group of journalists at the Washington, D.C. bureau of Knight Ridder—which was acquir...
03/24/2023
20 years later, the stain of Corporate Media’s role in promoting Iraq War remains | MR Online

That “one notable exception” was a group of journalists at the Washington, D.C. bureau of Knight Ridder—which was acquired by McClatchy in 2006—who published dozens of articles in several of the company’s papers. Common Dreams

"It should not be forgotten that this debacle of death and destruction was not only a profound error of policymaking; it was the result of a carefully executed crusade of disinformation and lies," said one prominent critic.

"Our hearts are also with our brothers in Cuba, who have shown that, even when surrounded by the sea, a people is capabl...
03/24/2023

"Our hearts are also with our brothers in Cuba, who have shown that, even when surrounded by the sea, a people is capable of taking up arms and successfully defending its fundamental interests and of deciding its own destiny."

on solidarity at the Conference of Nationalist Organizations of the Portuguese Colonies in Tanzania in 1965.

See: https://monthlyreview.org/product/return-to-the-source-new-expanded-edition/

 is a historian, journalist, and author of forty books. He is Executive Director of The Tricontinental: Institute for So...
03/24/2023
PART II: Vijay Prashad

is a historian, journalist, and author of forty books. He is Executive Director of The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.

Here at the launch of Rob Wallace's "The Fault in Our SARS" he speaks on socialism's response to COVID-19.

This video with Vijay Prashad is one of over a dozen talks from the book launch. Head here to see the rest of the event: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

According to the “Costs of War Project” at Brown University, the U.S. has invoked the post-09/11 AUMF as the legal basis...
03/24/2023
Forever Wars vs. Armageddon | MR Online

According to the “Costs of War Project” at Brown University, the U.S. has invoked the post-09/11 AUMF as the legal basis for air strikes and operations in eight countries, detention in 1 (Guantanamo, Cuba), and support for “counter terrorism partners” in 13. Black Agenda Report

The call for the U.S. to end military involvements is often made in order to advocate for new wars against more powerful countries. It appears that the only choices are forever wars or the end of the world.

While it was falsely presented by NATOized mass media as “humanitarian intervention,” in fact it was a war of NATO/U.S. ...
03/24/2023
NATO’s 1999 aggression against Yugoslavia: Global turning point | MR Online

While it was falsely presented by NATOized mass media as “humanitarian intervention,” in fact it was a war of NATO/U.S. geo-political expansion towards the East, towards Russian borders, setting precedent for other aggression which followed—Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria… – Rick Rozoff

This March 24th, the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals, Generals and Admirals Association of Serbia, Veterans Association SUBNOR of Serbia and some other independent associations and think tanks, will mark the 24th anniversary of NATO’s aggression against Serbia and Montenegro (the Federal Repu...

"In May, 2012, the Obama Administration announced a project to commemorate the U.S. war in Vietnam. The project, funded ...
03/24/2023
Monthly Review | Dispelling folkloric stories of “spitting” soldiers (from the co-author of Dissenting POWs)

"In May, 2012, the Obama Administration announced a project to commemorate the U.S. war in Vietnam. The project, funded by Congress for $65 million and administered by the Department of Defense, extended across the years 2012 to 2025, comprising a set of 50th anniversary events. The President announced his project at the Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., indicating that veterans themselves, not the war, would be the focus of the commemorations. Speaking to the cameras, the President called the Vietnam War “one of the nation’s most painful chapters.” He said the treatment of Vietnam veterans “…was a national shame, a disgrace that should have never happened” and promised that “we’re here today to see that it doesn’t happen again.” - Jerry Lembcke, coauthor of 'Dissenting POWs'

READ!

There is no evidence that Vietnam veterans were spat on. Nor could they have been, at least not in the manner described in the most often told stories. Those stories tell of landing at San Francisco…

Former Bush speechwriter David “Axis of Evil” Frum cooked up a lie-filled spin piece with The Atlantic claiming that “Wh...
03/23/2023
John Bolton’s prominence in the media proves our entire society is diseased | MR Online

Former Bush speechwriter David “Axis of Evil” Frum cooked up a lie-filled spin piece with The Atlantic claiming that “What the U.S. did in Iraq was not an act of unprovoked aggression.” Caitlin Johnstone

In order to narrative-manage the public conversation about the Iraq War on the 20th anniversary of the invasion, those who helped unleash that horror upon our world have briefly paused their relentless torrent of “Ukraine proves the hawks were always right” takes to churn out a deluge of “Actu...

The death throes of Canadian multiculturalism began on February 2023 over China-Canada science connections. Canada’s Inn...
03/23/2023
Multiculturalism is over in Canada – it’s back to Sinophobia | MR Online

The death throes of Canadian multiculturalism began on February 2023 over China-Canada science connections. Canada’s Innovation Minister said Canadian universities shouldn’t do research with China’s military, as 50 of them have since 2005. – Justin Podur Blog

How a rogue spy and two reporters are breaking the fragile system for integrating immigrants.

The U.S. government printed $300 billion in a week to save collapsing banks and bail out Silicon Valley oligarchs and ve...
03/23/2023
U.S. government bailout of Silicon Valley and banks is $300B gift to rich oligarchs | MR Online

The U.S. government printed $300 billion in a week to save collapsing banks and bail out Silicon Valley oligarchs and venture capital firms, paying them all of their uninsured deposits. Geopolitical Economy Report

The U.S. Federal Reserve printed $300 billion in a week to save collapsing banks and bail out Silicon Valley oligarchs. 93% of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits were uninsured, over the FDIC limit of $250,000, but the government still paid them. 56% of SVB’s loans went to venture capitalist and pri...

In 1973, fifty years ago, Amilcar Cabral, the leader of the national revolution in Guinea and Cape Verde was murdered.  ...
03/23/2023
The secret of the failure of liberation–a tribute and celebration of Amilcar Cabral fifty years on | MR Online

In 1973, fifty years ago, Amilcar Cabral, the leader of the national revolution in Guinea and Cape Verde was murdered. Review of African Political Economy

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of national revolutionary leader Amilcar Cabral’s murder in 1973, over the next four weeks, ROAPE will be re-posting a collection of essays paying tribute to Cabral. The collection was first published in the ROAPE journal thirty years ago, and reflects on the extra...

As Europe struggles to keep the lights on, Bolivia’s nationalized electric company, ENDE, will provide Argentina with 13...
03/23/2023
Bolivia: Electric powerhouse of Latin America | MR Online

As Europe struggles to keep the lights on, Bolivia’s nationalized electric company, ENDE, will provide Argentina with 132 thousand volts of electricity, announced Energy Minister Franklin Molina. Kawsachun News

For the first time in Bolivia’s history, the country is now an exporter of electricity.

Vicenç Navarro is a public policy professor at Pompeu Fabra University and Johns Hopkins.Here at the launch of Rob Walla...
03/23/2023
Part I: Vicente Navarro

Vicenç Navarro is a public policy professor at Pompeu Fabra University and Johns Hopkins.

Here at the launch of Rob Wallace's "The Fault in Our SARS" he speaks on what the U.S. could have learned from some (not many) European countries.

In late winter of 2023, a community of radical thinkers and doers convened around "The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era," a new book by Rob Walla...

"We are with the Blacks of North America, we are with them in the streets of Los Angeles, and when they are deprived of ...
03/23/2023

"We are with the Blacks of North America, we are with them in the streets of Los Angeles, and when they are deprived of all possibility of life, we suffer with them."

on solidarity at the Conference of Nationalist Organizations of the Portuguese Colonies in Tanzania in 1965.

is a verb

See: https://monthlyreview.org/product/return-to-the-source-new-expanded-edition/

So, there is nothing new when Bezalel Smotrich, the minister of finance of Israel calls for the erasure of Huwwara. The ...
03/22/2023
Using the right language: The ‘incremental genocide’ of the Palestinians continues | MR Online

So, there is nothing new when Bezalel Smotrich, the minister of finance of Israel calls for the erasure of Huwwara. The Palestine Chronicle

I am writing this op-ed on March 10, 2023. Seventy-five years ago, on this date, the military command of the Zionist leadership publicized Plan Dalet, or Plan D, which, among other guidelines, instructed the Zionist forces on their way to occupy hundreds of Palestinian villages and several towns and...

For those who are interested in an Indonesian perspective on  (we should all be!) and who also know ...Or, forward to yo...
03/22/2023
Monthly Review | Value Chains reviewed in Indonesian for ‘The Suryakanta’

For those who are interested in an Indonesian perspective on (we should all be!) and who also know ...
Or, forward to your friends in that part of the world...

Thank you very much to Sawyer Martin French, and the Indonesian publication, "The Suryakanta", for this review.

(Read on, if you know Indondesian) Dalam ekonomi global saat ini, sebagian besar produksi terjadi di negara-negara “berkembang” seperti Tiongkok, India, dan Indonesia. Namun…

The White House released its budget request for 2024. For the Pentagon, there is $824 billion. Adding armaments for mili...
03/22/2023
War buildup: Biden’s $1 trillion military budget | MR Online

The White House released its budget request for 2024. For the Pentagon, there is $824 billion. Adding armaments for military operations in Ukraine takes that figure to more than $950 billion. Struggle - La Lucha for Socialism

The White House released its budget request for 2024. For the Pentagon, there is $824 billion. Adding armaments for military operations in Ukraine takes that figure to more than $950 billion.

In an action that is a flat reversal of his election campaign pledge of “no more drilling on federal lands,” President J...
03/22/2023
Biden approves huge oil extraction project in Alaska | MR Online

In an action that is a flat reversal of his election campaign pledge of “no more drilling on federal lands,” President Joe Biden decided Monday to approve an $8 billion oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, to be operated by ConocoPhillips. World Socialist Web Site

In an action that is a flat reversal of his election campaign pledge of “no more drilling on federal lands,” President Joe Biden decided Monday to approve an $8 billion oil drilling project on Alaska’s North Slope, to be operated by ConocoPhillips.

The machine will churn no more. Nearly 80 years of top-down one-party rule in the United Auto Workers are coming to an e...
03/22/2023
It’s a new day in the United Auto Workers | MR Online

The machine will churn no more. Nearly 80 years of top-down one-party rule in the United Auto Workers are coming to an end. Reformer Shawn Fain is set to be the winner in the runoff for the UAW presidency. Labor Notes

The machine will churn no more. Nearly 80 years of top-down one-party rule in the United Auto Workers are coming to an end. Reformer Shawn Fain is set to be the winner in the runoff for the UAW presidency.

Adelita Husni-Bey  is an artist and pedagogue invested in anarcho-collectivism, theater, and critical legal studies.Here...
03/22/2023
Adelita Husni-Bey on "The Fault in Our SARS" (PART II)

Adelita Husni-Bey is an artist and pedagogue invested in anarcho-collectivism, theater, and critical legal studies.

Here at the launch of Rob Wallace's "The Fault in Our SARS" she speaks on teaching COVID through critical geography.

In late winter of 2023, a community of radical thinkers and doers convened around "The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era," a new book by Rob Walla...

As of now, according to the list maintained by activists Alejandra Caraballo, Erin Reed, and Allison Chapman, over 400 b...
03/21/2023
I am a trans Texan | MR Online

As of now, according to the list maintained by activists Alejandra Caraballo, Erin Reed, and Allison Chapman, over 400 bills targeting trans people have been filed with legislatures nationwide this year—more than in the past several years combined. Texas Observer

A state resident ties the current gender panic to fascist politics through the lens of their own experience.

I MET Prof Thomas Kailath seven years back in Delhi, where he talked about how India was on par if not leading, with cou...
03/21/2023
The West no longer World leaders in 84% of critical technologies | MR Online

I MET Prof Thomas Kailath seven years back in Delhi, where he talked about how India was on par if not leading, with countries like China in science and technology in the 90s but falling rapidly behind China today with its much bigger investments. Peoples Democracy

Kailath, originally from Kerala but settled in the U.S., is one of the foremost names in the world in communications, control and signal processing. I remembered his words while reading the recent startling headlines that China has become the world leader in 37 of 44 critical technologies evaluated....

On 24 February 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a twelve-point plan entitled ‘China’s Position on the Politic...
03/21/2023
Birth again the dream of Global peace and mutual respect | MR Online

On 24 February 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a twelve-point plan entitled ‘China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis’. Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research

On 24 February 2023, the Chinese Foreign Ministry released a twelve-point plan entitled ‘China’s Position on the Political Settlement of the Ukraine Crisis’.

Hundreds of mostly women gathered at Catholic University’s Maloney Hall during the first weekend of March to convene the...
03/21/2023
International Women’s Alliance uplifts militant grassroots struggles in first U.S.-based conference | MR Online

Hundreds of mostly women gathered at Catholic University’s Maloney Hall during the first weekend of March to convene the first U.S.-based conference of a worldwide grassroots women’s network called the International Women’s Alliance. Toward Freedom

Hundreds of mostly women gathered at Catholic University’s Maloney Hall during the first weekend of March to convene the first U.S.-based conference of a worldwide grassroots women’s network called the International Women’s Alliance, as well as help strengthen its fledgling U.S. chapter.

One of the tragic victims of the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation was Annie Mae Aquash, a Micmaq from Nova Scotia and teacher ...
03/21/2023
Secret COINTELPRO plot to infiltrate and destroy the American Indian Movement: “We wanted them to kill each other”—FBI agent admits after 5 decades of silence | MR Online

One of the tragic victims of the FBI’s COINTELPRO operation was Annie Mae Aquash, a Micmaq from Nova Scotia and teacher who participated in the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation. CovertAction Magazine

February 27 through May 8 marks the 50th anniversary of the occupation by the American Indian Movement (AIM) of Wounded Knee on the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, the site of the last great massacre of the Indian Wars in December, 1890.

Greg Gonsalves  is an associate professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health. Here at the launch of Rob Wal...
03/21/2023
PART II: Gregg Gonsalves

Greg Gonsalves is an associate professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health.

Here at the launch of Rob Wallace's "The Fault in Our SARS" he speaks on the financialization of medicine and the medicalization of public health.

In late winter of 2023, a community of radical thinkers and doers convened around "The Fault in Our SARS: COVID-19 in the Biden Era," a new book by Rob Walla...

FEATURED - John Ross - In its recent political propaganda, the U.S. has been claiming that its economy was doing well an...
03/20/2023
Consequences and Lessons of the New U.S. Bank Collapses | MR Online

FEATURED - John Ross - In its recent political propaganda, the U.S. has been claiming that its economy was doing well and the stimulus packages it launched during Covid were a big success.

The collapse in rapid succession of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank confirms the extremely damaging character of U.S. stimulus policies.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published its latest report of global arms sales, shows Europea...
03/20/2023
Arms imports to Europe surge despite Global decline | MR Online

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) published its latest report of global arms sales, shows European states’ imports of major arms over five years between 2018 and 2022 increased by 47% compared to 2013-2017 period, while global arms decreased by 5.1%. TeleSur_English

As a result of military aid from the U.S. and many European states, Ukraine became the 3rd biggest importer of major arms during 2022.

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Dear friends
COLLECTION OF 13 THOUGHTFUL ARTICLES FROM THE LOCK DOWN DIARIES AUTHORED BY AVAY SHUKLA - A RETIRED OFFICER FROM INDIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE IN DECEMBER 2010

At the outset I'm grateful to my many friends for their thoughtful responses to many of my posts during lock down period. It's comforting to know that we're going crazy together.

In democratic politics, the practice of critique mediated through the act of dissent plays an important role in controlling and rectifying the political tendencies that seek to undermine democratic values. The role of informed critique becomes absolutely crucial for saving democracy from degenerating into despotism. In despotism, there is the need to immunise political dominance from everyday threats of dissent and resistance from the margin and opposition from the political rivals.
Paradoxically, a democratically formed government, but with authoritarian intentions, usually deals with dissent not with the force of sound arguments, but by using against the dissenting voices resources such as contempt, ridicule and insult, which are trivial in their essence. Thus, the dignity of the argument is compromised with debasement that is regularly used to neutralise dissent. This moral element is starkly absent in contemporary Indian politics.
Alongside, the authoritarian government and its supporters seek to silence the dissent through the use of coercive methods, such as entangling the dissenting person into legal litigation. Finally, and most importantly, such a government seeks to separate people both from each other through planting communal dissension and also from argument through the overuse of ideologically self-serving rhetoric. In contemporary India, do we have governments that work only for representation rather than transcendence?
Critique coming particularly from radical elements, arguably involves the promise of seeking transcendence in the embattled common life through powerful argument and effective action. Radical critique, in the ideal sense, suggests the need to move away from representation that defines the existence of identity politics on the one hand and the politics of the majority community on the other. Right-wing political parties, in the event of a counterclaim forwarded by their rivals, do assert that they have an authentic claim over the representation of members belonging to a particular religious group. At the root of communal division is the parochial, ideological claim of representing a particular socio-religious group that tends to survive and reproduce itself in the stock ideology.
Such narrow claims of representation based on stock ideology are the hurdles in achieving transcendence or normative shift in people’s settled consciousness.
The question that is much more important is: Does the argument from the radical achieve this transcendence or does it also remain stuck at the level of representation, rhetorically representing the interest of the identity groups?
The critique that is externally courageous against the authoritarian government, however, remains internally weak for the following reasons.
First, it fails to expand the social basis of the practice of critique so as to include those on whose behalf it claims to be active against the authoritative government. It makes the issue a specialised activity of a selective group of dissenters who claim to be politically correct.
Second, the radicals, at this level, tend to arrogate to themselves legislative authority to prescribe what is an adequate and inadequate degree of critique. Such radicals seem to use their requisite sense to suggest that launching the critique of tormenting forces worldwide from a particular standpoint is “so far so good” but not adequate. Thus, there is an element of temporality involved in this sense, which then tends to suggest that the critique is not yet complete as it leaves out from its gaze other tormenting forces. We often hear such grudges from the radicals who claim to represent the minorities and Dalits in India. It could be argued that the radical critique slides down from the transductal project of speaking for the universal to practically representing the identity groups. Their capacity to critique gets pragmatically confined to embattled groups, such as the Adivasis, Dalits and minorities. The validity of the critical practice of the radicals ironically depends on the reciprocal antagonism between the radical and the conservative forces. The critical energies of the radical thus enter a deadlock, with right-wing politics that works along the line of a block ideology. Since the communal ideology of the right-wing forces has to be continuously at work, the critique from the left has to be active, and it has been active since the origin of the stock ideology. But, the critical practice of the radical runs the risk of working only through the block or reified argument without any emancipatory opening. Critique acquires a therapeutic quality to rectify and purify the responses by freeing them from the deadlock. Critique, in such a sense, acquires a transcendental quality. Critique as reason has to be active at both ends, that is to say, embattled people have reasons to offer resistance at both levels.
In a serial of xiii articles under the heading lockdown diaries this bold critic ,an of officer who retired from the Indian Administrative Service in December 2010ahs torn apart the false claim of the government in power summing up their lockdown and unlock down mismanagement as DISTORTING THE FACTS ZERO SUM GAME. Kindly go through the same and arrive at your judgment, Of facts disengaging facts from falsehood.
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A citizen’s posit
22-6-2020"

Umar bhar Ghalib yahi bhool karta raha,
Dhool chehre par thi, aur aina saaf karta raha."

Actually, this piece is not just about me- it's also about you, dear reader. Look into that cracked mirror. Do you feel any shame, just a little , for what we have become, for the lost soul of a once great nation?

About the author of lock down diaries Mr Avay Shukla

The author retired from the Indian Administrative Service in December 2010. A keen environmentalist and trekker he has published a book on high altitude trekking in the Himachal Himalayas: THE TRAILS LESS TRAVELLED. He writes for various publications and websites on the environment, governance and social issues. He divides his time between Delhi and his cottage in a small village above Shimla. He used to play golf at one time but has now run out of balls. He has published his second book- SPECTRE OF CHOOR DHAR( a collection of short stories based on the myths and fables of Himachal)- in July 2019.
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The good-for-business wars
by Marge Piercy
(Jun 01, 2020)

Buying [we’re called consumers: what do
we really consume?] things we don’t need
with money we don’t have. Credit cards
weren’t invented for our convenience.

That’s the American Way troops are sent
to defend in lands where we don’t know
their language, march through their
customs, bitch about their religions.

Most people now can’t even find Kansas
on a map; Afghanistan might as well
be on the moon or in some god’s hell.
Their corpses we see on television

lack faces as well as names. We
count our own dead but won’t allot
money to talk nightmares from brains
of those who made it out. Who can

remember a time when we weren’t
at war someplace? No one in power
cares that we haven’t won a war
in seventy years. Still we invade.

When the same mistake is made over
and over, it isn’t always stupidity. Some
times it means that every cooked-up
invasion earns some people billions.
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