Literature

Dr V Laxminarayana Devanur Mahadeva’s booklet, ‘RSS -Aala Mattu Agala’ (RSS- its ‘Depth and Width) is making waves in Karnataka. In Karnataka the aggressiveness of Hindutva forces is at its peak. It has launched sustained campaigns provoking anti Muslim tirade with issues of Hijab, Azaan, textbook syllabus revision and the like. The BJP Government of the state has also issued an ordinance, ‘Religious Freedom Protection Act 2022’, which is the opposite of what its name suggests: it makes religious conversion as a cognizable offence, and is especially targeted at marriages in which a Hindu woman converts to Islam to marry a Muslim man.    Devanur Mahadeva (DM) is a very popular Dalit writer of the 1970s generation. He is one of the important key founders of DSS (Dalith Sa...

By: Dr Adel Samara To the comrade Saeed Mohamed: Between stealing books and personal entitlement to the term... no difference: I wrote this as a follow-up on a post of comrade Saeed Mohamed. Hello my friend happy Twenty-two years ago, I carved the term "Introver Defeat" as part of my book title "Palestinian refugees between the right of return and the point of defeat: a reading in abrogation of the right of return" publications of the Literary Treasures House Beirut 1962 and the founder of the late fighter house Saeed Saif/Ab Dr. Rahman Al-Naaimi. She argued that the revolutionary forces, when defeat intervenes, become flexible to the scoundrels where they occupy their heritage. Perhaps the other paradox is that many have used this term and many of mine, and forgot to ment...

BY BRUCE E. LEVINE Spinoza and the Rabbis by Samuel Hirszenberg (1907) – Public Domain Simple logic tells us that those atop a societal hierarchy will provide rewards for professionals—be they clergy or psychiatrists—who promote an ideology that maintains the status quo, and that the ruling class will do everything possible to manipulate the public to believe that the social-economic-political status quo is natural. If a population believes that its financial and emotional suffering are caused not by social-economic-political variables but instead by individual defects—be it noncompliance with religious dogma or faulty biochemistry—this “individual-defect” belief system can be a more powerful and less expensive way of maintaining the status quo than a heavily a...

by Nina Kosta and George Korkovelos Continued from previous issue The film employs new modes of expression using a variety of lenses, agile hand-held cameras with light-sensitive technology with impressive sound experiments, and electronic sounds and music. These showcase the dialectical relationship between form and content, between political clarity and aesthetic sensibility. Ivens often emphasised formal and technical factors to convey the political message and to find a compromise between his ideas and the views of bourgeois bosses. We can say that the same thing applies in the Chinese blockbuster that needs to fulfil technical criteria of the film market and its global competition as well as fulfilling the policy of the CPC. Consciousness of the responsibility for th...

Global Research E-Book, Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG) By Shane Quinn Global Research, All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the “Translate Website” drop down menu on the top banner of our home page (Desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Visit and follow us on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. *** History of World War II Operation Barbarossa The Allied Firebombing of German Cities and Japan’s Early Conquests by Shane Quinn First published on April 2, 2022 About the Author Shane Quinn was born in Dublin, Ireland and lives just o...