Naked Punch Collectives Asia edition - Editor, Vijay Prashad, Qalandar Bux Memon

Beirut Diary

Beirut Diary, April 2010       Walking into Beirut this spring was like walking into history. Not ancient history, necessarily, but the history of the city which is the history ...

No Catharsis in Sight: The Greek crisis revisited

Since the beginning of the year, Greeks have been pinching themselves. All of a sudden, Greece became front page news every day, everywhere. Just like 2008 made Lehman Brothers a household name, 201...

Israel’s Disease, and the Rising Kites.

  On a feverishly hot day in August 2009, I walked the streets of the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem I'd waited so long to see. That day, I met families and people whose lives touched my ow...

Class struggle for Democracy in Thailand

  Anyone who supports Democracy or Social Justice would have little difficulty in choosing sides in the current class war being conducted in Thailand.    On one side we have th...

The Withered State

    Disaster is the only news of the day. It was providential that a sinkhole has opened up in Guatemala. It is 100-feet deep with a circular chasm of 66 feet. An act of nature, it is felt...

Those Struggling for a Different Pakistan

I.  Prologue Pakistan is in a state of crisis.  The history of Pakistan, looked at from a human perspective, has been a perpetual crisis since its birth.  The ruling elite have op...

The Trouble with House Arrest

  One problem with house arrest is that you never quite know who’s in-charge. Or what you’ve been charged with. Or how the situation will be resolved. Between prisoner and jailor, wh...