Global Tensions

A strange thing happened at a conference on “Decolonization of the Indian Mind” organized by a Hindu nationalist outfit and attended by the bigwigs of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), the politburo of the Hindu Right. [1] One of the speakers, Rakesh Sinha, a member of the upper house of the Indian parliament and a…

On September 22 2025 a 24 hour general strike was called by several grassroot unions in Italy to protests the complicity of the Italian government with the Israeli genocide in Gaza, support the effort of the Global Sumud Flottilla to bring humanitarian help to the starving population, and call for an end to the war…

In today’s Russia, memory politics has supplanted ideology as the primary instrument of political legitimation. This hinders efforts to explain the unique features of Putinism by approaching it as a political ideology.    Is Putinism a Form of Fascism? Investigating Putinism means understanding why, for the past 25 years, Russians have accepted life in a…

In a March 30, 2025, telephone interview with Kristen Welker of NBC News, U.S. President Donald Trump stated: “If they [the Iranians] don’t make a deal, there will be bombing.  It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen.”  This vitriolic statement was reflective of Donald Trump’s desire to remake the Persian…