Here’s the big question in Jock Culture these days: Is the Kingdom of Golf being used to sportswash the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia? Or is it the other way around? After all, what other major sport could use a sandstorm of Middle Eastern murder and human-rights abuses to obscure its own history of bigotry and greed? In fact, not since the 1936 Berlin Olympics was used[Read More…]
The gun I carried on the streets of New York City in the late 1960s was a Beretta, similar to the pistol James Bond packed in the early Ian Fleming novels. It was a small, dark beauty that filled me with bravado. I was never afraid when I had it in my pocket, which is why I’m so very afraid[Read More…]
At least once a week, a stranger writing a book, magazine article, newspaper feature, or blog; representing a documentary film, radio serial, or podcast; researching a paper for middle school, high school, or college asks me for an interview about Muhammad Ali. I’m on the short list of live resources because I began covering him when he was Cassius Clay[Read More…]
The Four Horsemen of our media apocalypse — Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump — have ridden roughshod over us this past half-century leaving their hoofprints on our politics, our culture, and our lives. Two of them are gone now, but their legacies, including the News Corporation, the Fox News empire, and a gang of broadcast barbarians[Read More…]
As controversies about the “reopening” of America loom over our lives, nothing seems as intrinsically irrelevant — yet possibly as critically important — as how soon major spectator sports return. If sports don’t trump religion as the opiate of the masses, they have, until recently, been at least the background music of most of our lives. So here’s my[Read More…]
One afternoon in New York City in the spring of 1964, I marched at the head of a small civil rights demonstration, one of the few white people in the group. I was carrying a watermelon. It was a Dick Gregory joke. To say the least, not everyone liked that joke, but I thought it was hilarious, a jab by[Read More…]
Who Scuttled the Ukraine Peace Process, and What Are the Future Prospects 
What can Unite India: ‘Hindu Spiritualism or ‘Unity in Diversity’? 
Messing Up the Bread Basket–Changes in Ukraine Farming Cause for Serious Concern 
Connecting the Dots Between Climate Devastation and Fossil Fuel Profits 
Understanding Libya’s Relentless Destabilization 
IMSD strongly condemns the repressive Iranian regime, questions the hypocrisy of the Muslim clergy in India 
Global People’s Assembly at the UN General Assembly: Over 1000 civil society groups propose bold steps to transform the world 
At least 31 Killed As Anti-government Protests Spread Across Iran 
Singing in the Shadows 
The Nightmare of Military Spending on an Overheating Planet 
Shoddy Consultations: Santos, Drilling and First Nations Peoples 
On the Subject of Book Banning, Can Burning be Far Behind? 
Will the United Nations Finally Deliver Justice for Palestine? 
The Arc of a Covenant 
Tribute to Ross Longhurst on 2nd death anniversary 
Nagarkovil Massacre of School Children 
Rural Workers Struggle for Proper Implementation of Jobs Scheme 
Ukraine War: Still a Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion 
Is Mamata Banerjee a Poster Girl of RSS? 
Right to Food Campaign demands proper functioning of MGNREGA 
Refer Sri Lanka to International Criminal Court 
Ukraine Crisis Escalates Sharply With More Aggressive Statements, Higher Mobilization 
Ukraine Update: Russia To Begin Partial Mobilization 
Paradigm for peace applied to Russia, Ukraine, and the US: Proposal for a peaceful pathway forward – Part 4S. Obtuse US and UK “experts” issue libelous statements re: Putin’s concept of unity 
Right to Bodily Autonomy v/s Right to Life: Is there a just half-way? 
Offence by Another Name: Suppressing Anti-Royal Protest in Britain 
Truth to the Powerless: Newly Released Critical Docuseries on Canada’s Foreign Policy 
Suppression of contrarian voices 
What Do Americans Care About? Not a Cold War With Russia and China 
Preventing Climate Disaster in Africa; Eritrea Leads the Way 
How Russians Read the Conflict in the Caucasus 
Alone in a Crowd! 
Red Rags To Hindutva Bulls 
Misrepresenting Subhash Chandra Bose’s philosophy 
US Peace Activists Try to Find A Way Out in the Complex Ukraine Crisis 
Peace is the Way–Let Us Give Peace a Chance! 
Steps towards avoiding a climate catastrophe 
Hindutva & Zionism as natural allies pose great danger to multicultural world 
Number of Ultrarich Hits All-Time High as Someone Dies From Hunger Every 4 Seconds 
Strike, Strike, Strike 
Havoc and misery caused by recent floods in Bengaluru, Pakistan and Assam are not only natural disasters but are man made and due to climate change. Over exploitation of urban land and water resources by greedy private real estate developers perhaps the chief cause of floods. Media relentlessly focused on flooded upscale villas, their swanky automobiles of super rich in[Read More…]
