Bulletin

Articles

• Mad King Trump Refuses to Quit, Netanyahu Compounds the Folly and Modi Silently Swallows Insults
  18 May, by Vinod Mubayi

  Analysts of the US-Israeli unprovoked and blatantly illegal attack on Iran on Feb 28, while US-Iranian negotiations brokered by Oman were ongoing, have concluded that the assault has failed to achieve any of its objectives. Iran, despite suffering significant losses, is now acknowledged to be in a stronger position compared to the assailants as its closure of the Strait of Hormuz threatens to tank the world economy. The refusal of the narcissist Trump to admit defeat is compounded by the (…)

• Populism and the Erosion of the Public Sphere
  18 May, by Messaoud Romdhani

  Robert A. Heinlein, an American novelist and political thinker, argues that political labels such as democrat, communist, fascist, liberal, or conservative are not fundamental criteria for distinguishing citizens politically; rather, humanity is divided between those who seek to dominate others and those who do not. This reduction of political life to a fundamental asymmetry of domination provides a useful lens for understanding contemporary populism.
  In fact, populism does not dismantle (…)

• Cost Without Consent: The Political Economy of Permanent War
  18 April, by Sankha Subhra Biswas

  War, in its official presentation, is a collective sacrifice—an inevitable but necessary cost imposed on the present to secure the future. In practice, the American experience since 1950 suggests something closer to a permanent fiscal regime, in which costs are socialised, profits are privatised, and accountability is systematically displaced. The question is no longer whether the United States can afford its wars. It is why a political system continues to fund them in ways that transfer (…)

• Annihilation of Caste: Why and How
  19 April, by Anand Teltumbde

  An edited transcript of the online speech delivered on 17 April 2026 at the seminar on Brahmanization at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
  Long ago, while speaking about the annihilation of caste to the audience like you, I put forth my view in the form of a paradox:
  Annihilation of Caste is not possible without a revolution. And revolution is not possible without the Annihilation of Caste.
  It may sound as a clever formulation, but it is not. It succinctly captures the reality of (…)

• Apartheid, Waiting for Ethnic Cleansing: Israel’s ’Only Remaining Problem’
  6 April, by Hagai El-Ad

  A population that has been displaced, which has had its homes and sources of livelihood destroyed, becomes more vulnerable to ethnic cleansing at the ’right’ time.
  To put it succinctly, by every possible measure but one (and a tiny bit more) – the Zionist victory over the Palestinians is total. Political, military and economic power is entirely in our hands. So too is the control over land, water and other natural resources. Throughout the Land of Israel, Jews are stronger and wealthier (…)