Arun Gupta

Dec 3, 2023 | znetwork.org | Arun Gupta

What did you eat today? Perhaps it was an egg-and-cheese sandwich, followed by pizza, then ramen for dinner. Or maybe you had a breakfast burrito, grabbed to-go sushi for lunch, and noshed on a burger and fries to end the day. I term these dishes “platform foods.” Though a sliver of culinary heritage, they make up most of our meals. Americans devour 200 sandwiches, 150 burgers, and forty-six slices of pizza a year on average—deriving a third of meals from these three foods.

Dec 2, 2023 | portside.org | Arun Gupta

The Dominance of Platform Foods Published December 2, 2023 What did you eat today? Perhaps it was an egg-and-cheese sandwich, followed by pizza, then ramen for dinner. Or maybe you had a breakfast burrito, grabbed to-go sushi for lunch, and noshed on a burger and fries to end the day. I term these dishes “platform foods.” Though a sliver of culinary heritage, they make up most of our meals.

Nov 21, 2023 | znetwork.org | Arun Gupta

Israeli propaganda is bad, really bad, comically bad. There are fake stories about Hamas beheading babies, and even beheading a fetus. There are outlandish claims of “mass rape so brutal that they broke their victims’ pelvis – women, grandmothers, children.” There is a fake Al Qaeda manual found on a dead Hamas fighter emblazoned with “Al Qaeda” in English on its cover. There’s a pristine copy of Hitler’s Mein Kampf found in a child’s room of a Hamas “terrorism hub.

Nov 20, 2023 | portside.org | Arun Gupta

The Real Reason Israel Is Attacking Gaza’s Hospitals Published November 20, 2023 Israeli propaganda is bad, really bad, comically bad. There are fake stories about Hamas beheading babies, and even beheading a fetus. There are outlandish claims of “mass rape so brutal that they broke their victims’ pelvis – women, grandmothers, children.” There is a fake Al Qaeda manual found on a dead Hamas fighter emblazoned with “Al Qaeda” in English on its cover.

Sep 5, 2023 | znetwork.org | Arun Gupta

Will there be bananas under socialism? The question recently swept the internet, started with a tweet from Malcolm Harris, communist and author of Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World.