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About Prabir Purkayastha

Prabir Purkayastha is the founding editor of Newsclick.in, a digital media platform. He is an activist for science and the Free Software movement.
  • Manufacturing #15, Bird Mobile

    Chip wars or the crisis of late capitalism?

    Originally published: Peoples Democracy on August 29, 2021 (more by Peoples Democracy)  |

    If the U.S. wants to be a world leader, it has to match China in investing in knowledge generation for future technology. Why then is the U.S. taking the sanctions route? Sanctions are simpler to implement; building a society that values knowledge is much more difficult. This is the crisis of late capitalism.

  • Richard Lewontin

    Richard Lewontin, dialectical biologist and activist, dies at 92

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on July 18, 2021 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    A Marxist, activist and scientist, Lewontin fought a lifelong battle against racism, imperialism and capitalist oppression. He is among the most influential scientists in the field of biology and evolution.

  • Why the U.S. Shouldn’t Play Games with Cyberwarfare as Its Power Declines

    Why the U.S. shouldn’t play games with cyberwarfare as its power declines

    Originally published: Janata Weekly on April 18, 2021 (more by Janata Weekly)  |

    Two major cyberhacks—of ‘SolarWinds’ and ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’—have affected a whole range of computer systems worldwide. Both are supply chain hacks, meaning that they appeared to be routine software upgrades for particular components in these systems instead of inserted malicious codes.

  • Hacking

    As U.S. loses its edge, game of cyber chicken could have deadly consequences

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on March 27, 2021 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    ‘…all countries have offensive and defensive capabilities and ‘stealing” data and knowledge from other countries are time-honoured tasks of spook agencies. It becomes an act of war only if it leads to physical damage to critical equipment or infrastructure.’

  • Wikimedia Commons File:Precinct 61 (24746860626).jpg - Wikimedia Commons

    The world can show how Pharma monopolies aren’t the only way to fight COVID-19

    Prabir Purkayastha

    The U.S. has bought up almost all of the stock of remdesivir from Gilead, making it nearly impossible for this COVID-19 drug to be available anywhere else in the world.

  • Wikimedia Commons File-Vaccine.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

    U.S. declares a vaccine war on the World

    Prabir Purkayastha

    Donald Trump launched a new vaccine war in May, but not against the virus. It was against the world.

  • Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston Soldiers from Fort Riley, Kansas, ill with Spanish flu at a hospital ward at Camp Funston.

    Disease capitalism and COVID-19: Hunger in the belly of the beast

    Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on May 10, 2020 (more by Peoples Dispatch)  |

    For capital, profits come from disease, not peoples’ health. COVID-19 shows the consequence of disease capitalism in a globalized world, the rich—countries or individuals—will not be spared either.

  • Hiroshima Appeals by Yusaku Kamekura

    The current U.S. approach to nuclear weapons can only lead to armageddon—arms control provides the only path to peace

    Prabir Purkayastha

    The decade ends with two major threats to humanity: global warming leading to a climate catastrophe and the threat of a nuclear war extinguishing our civilization.

  • USS STARK (FFG-31) listing to port after being hit by two Iraqi Exocet missiles

    The UK’s dubious role in the new tanker war with Iran

    Prabir Purkayastha

    There are signs of a new tanker war in the Persian Gulf, with Britain joining a coalition that wants a war with Iran.

  • PepsiCo and Monsanto’s Bogus Court Cases are War on Indian Farmers (Image courtesy: CNN.com)

    PepsiCo and Monsanto’s bogus court cases are war on Indian farmers

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on May 4, 2019 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    At the heart of the struggle is capital’s need–Monsanto and Pepsico’s–to continuously enclose spheres and generate surpluses from creating a monopoly over something that it does not actually own.

  • Trump and Putin

    Trump and Bolton’s new motto: how I started to stop worrying and love the bomb

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on October 25, 2018 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    The key issue is the U.S.’s desire to return to the 90’s status of the world’s sole hegemon.

  • Donald Trump (Image Courtesy: The Wire)

    The Rogue Nation: U.S. breaks the Iran nuclear deal

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on May 10, 2018 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    This reneging on international agreements by the U.S. is not an isolated case. This is the pattern that the U.S. has been following now for the last 25 years.

  • Aijaz Ahmad

    Aijaz Ahmad on Syria, U.S. and Palestine

    Originally published: NewsClick.in on April 7, 2018 (more by NewsClick.in)  |

    A rational solution is possible for Syria, if the US wants to be rational. But with Kushner in the White House Palestine faces a grim future.

  • What’s Behind the US Escalation Against North Korea?

    Aijaz Ahmad and Prabir Purkayastha

      Aijaz Ahmad: Ever since this young man [Kim Jong-un] became the president, the head of state, of North Korea . . . the West has been testing his will, to see whether he can be stared down. . . .  Every year these very provocative war games take place, involving South Korea and the […]

  • Imperial Sovereignty in the Automated Battlefield: Interview with Aijaz Ahmad

    Prabir Purkayastha

    Aijaz Ahmad: Since the Vietnam War the United States has been developing what they then called the “automated battlefield.”  Now, after about 40 years, we are now seeing some very, very advanced expressions of that, where the entire battlefield is being automated, to use the whole spectrum of technologies that they have . . . […]

  • Imperialists and Their Islamists in Syria: Interview with Aijaz Ahmad

    Prabir Purkayastha

    “No genuine democratic nationalist movement in the world has ever asked for any imperialist intervention.” — Aijaz Ahmad Aijaz Ahmad is a Marxist critic in India.  Prabir Purkayastha is a member of the Delhi Science Forum.  Video by NewsClick (15 February 2012).  See, also, Prabir Purkayastha, “Why Syria Matters: Interview with Aijaz Ahmad” (27 November […]

  • Why Syria Matters: Interview with Aijaz Ahmad

    Prabir Purkayastha

    Aijaz Ahmad: For one thing, Syria is the last remaining representative of Arab nationalism as it used to be understood historically.  It still calls itself socialist.  Even though it has implemented a great deal of neoliberal reform, the state sector is still dominant.  It bans, literally bans, religion from politics.  It will not recognize the […]

  • The Neocolonization of Libya: Interview with Aijaz Ahmad

    Prabir Purkayastha

    Aijaz Ahmad: . . . Europeans, and Italians in particular, are celebrating the 100th anniversary of their first aerial bombing ever done in the world.  The Italians bombed in Libya in 1911.  Now, of course, with 100 years of development of the technology, there have been 20,000 aerial attacks on Libya. . . .  They […]

  • On Syria, Democracy, and Imperialism

    Prabir Purkayastha

    The trajectory of the democratic movement in the Arab world was never going to be a straight line with clear goals and objectives.  The Arab regimes are not homogeneous; they have medieval Islamist monarchies, as in Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, and secular but completely authoritarian regimes, both Western puppets like Mubarak and […]

  • Libya and Yemen — Study in Contrast

    Prabir Purkayastha

    It is now clear that the no-fly zone has been expanded in Libya to a military campaign for a regime change, something that the UN Security Council did not authorize.  Gaddafi’s residence in Tripoli has been bombed and more strikes are taking place in Tripoli and other towns.  The argument of course is that Gaddafi’s […]

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