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Jan 24, 2025 | 
counterpunch.org | Sudip Bhattacharya
We’ve entered the era of smartphones and eugenics.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
counterpunch.org | Sudip Bhattacharya
In his condemnation of the U.S. war on the people of Vietnam, Martin Luther King Jr.’s stance was not a pacifist one. King was not necessarily anti-war so much as he was against the U.S. empire and its machinations against the Vietnamese and their generational struggle for self-determination. In fact, King would discuss openly how land redistribution was necessary after years of brutal French colonization and how the U.S. actively prevented this as a political strategy.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
proteanmag.com | Sudip Bhattacharya
had an uncle who preferred flavored alcoholic beverages over therapy, belching his soul from the nether regions of the temple’s forehead, first time i glimpsed Ma Kali’s red tongue lashing out, lava pouring onto the blackened ground, first time i flew, second time, i cried, clutched at my mother’s shawl, murmuring, eyelids stuck, deepening sense of the divine, amidst buttoned shirts reeking of deodorant, and coriander, hair still parted, red lines paving, once, my mother warned me not to open...
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Sudip Bhattacharya |Susie Day
Charlotta Bass, the first African American woman to serve on a major presidential ticket as part of the Progressive party, stated in 1952, “We fought to destroy Hitlerism—but its germs took root right here.”[1] Now, Bass wasn’t entirely correct in her timeline of fascism rearing its head on the domestic scene, considering how at the […] To read this article, log in here or subscribe here.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Sudip Bhattacharya
When the idea of liberation springs to mind, I imagine an older Aunty, having migrated to the U.S. decades ago, perched on her favorite chair in her favorite room of her spacious apartment, watching her favorite Desi soap, surrounded by her grandchildren, some of them rolling their eyes at the screen.
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Jul 24, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Sudip Bhattacharya
Toiling as a clinical psychiatrist in the heart of French-controlled Algeria, Frantz Fanon would conclude after several years of work and struggle, “Today the all-out national war of liberation waged by the Algerian people for seven years has become a breeding ground for mental disorders.”At the time, the Algerian people, taking inspiration from their Vietnamese counterparts, had been steeped in their own struggle for independence from the clutches of France.
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May 3, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Sudip Bhattacharya
A sense of urgency loomed over Fatima Mughal, one of the leading organizers behind the uncommitted campaign in New Jersey. Some emotional containment was necessary in the midst of an ongoing genocide. “The people who’ve lost so much in Gaza don’t have the time to sit with their feelings,” she expressed, referring to the 40,000 Palestinian lives killed by the Israeli state since late last year.
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May 3, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Sudip Bhattacharya
A sense of urgency loomed over Fatima Mughal, one of the leading organizers behind the uncommitted campaign in New Jersey. Some emotional containment was necessary in the midst of an ongoing genocide. “The people who’ve lost so much in Gaza don’t have the time to sit with their feelings,” she expressed, referring to the 40,000 Palestinian lives killed by the Israeli state since late last year.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
hamptonthink.org | Sudip Bhattacharya
[Photo Credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty]By Sudip BhattacharyaRepublished from Counterpunch. Although it’s been decades since he left Palestine, building a life for himself and his loved ones in the Austin area, memories of olive trees and hills, of family and him sharing meals under an orange sun, flowed through Ahmad Zamer on most days.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Sudip Bhattacharya
Although it’s been decades since he left Palestine, building a life for himself and his loved ones in the Austin area, memories of olive trees and hills, of family and him sharing meals under an orange sun, flowed through Ahmad Zamer on most days.
