Thursday 24 July 2014

Response to Ravi Kiran's blog post entitled "Modi-My Observations"


This is the second article in a series of articles pertaining to Ravi Kiran's posts on his blog "Ravithinks".[1] In this article, I address Kiran's views on the then-prime ministerial candidate, and now Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi,[2] as expressed in Kiran's article entitled "Modi-My Observations", which was published on the 9th of February 2013.[3]

Sunday 13 July 2014

Response to Tom Suarez's article entitled "Chomsky and BDS"


This article is a slightly modified version of a Facebook comment previously made by me[1] in response to a Facebook post from the journalist and blogger Jonathan Cook.[2] In that Facebook post, Cook offers an article by Tom Suarez in Mondoweiss[3] as being, in Cook's eyes, a good starting point for criticisms of Chomsky's position on the one-state/two-state debate that has been elucidated in multiple fora, for example in a recent article for The Nation[4], and in a 2010 interview.[5]

Wednesday 2 July 2014

Response to Ravi Kiran's blog post entitled "There is no poverty except thought poverty"


This will most likely be the first of many articles addressing the political views expressed in a WordPress blog called "Ravithinks".[1] This blog was brought to my attention by certain friends who noticed that the views espoused therein, belonging to a blogger called Ravi Kiran,[2] are quite different to my own sociopolitical views. In presenting Kiran's ideas to me, my friends and I began to have a quite prolonged discussion that they thought deserved a more formal exposition. I hope I can offer that here.