Amitabh Pal
Amitabh Pal is managing editor of The Progressive. He has interviewed the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jimmy Carter and John Kenneth Galbraith for the magazine.
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Views Tuesday, August 27, 2019 India’s Kashmir Gambit Fulfills the Hindu Nationalist Agenda The drastic recent steps taken by the Indian government in Kashmir, depriving it not only of its constitutional autonomy but also its status as a state, can best be understood in the context of a worrisome phenomenon afflicting the world’s largest democracies. In the wake of the global financial... Read more |
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Views Friday, September 25, 2015 What’s Behind the GOP’s Muslim Bashing? Recent Muslim-bashing comments by Ben Carson and Donald Trump follow a path blazed by other GOP candidates in the race. Bobby Jindal earlier this year falsely asserted that several British cities have no-go zones where non-Muslims can’t enter. And Rand Paul recently commented that immigrants from... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 25, 2015 Chattanooga Shooting Fuels Anti-Muslim Reaction Never mind the fact that Mohammod Abdulazeez, the Chattanooga shooter, was gravely mentally troubled and abused alcohol and drugs. Also never mind that, by some estimates, rightwing extremists have killed five times as many people in the United States since 9/11 as have fundamentalist Muslims. The... Read more |
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Views Sunday, May 31, 2015 Kaplan’s Cure for the Middle East: Imperialism The solution to the current mess in the Middle East is to bring back imperialism—that’s what an influential foreign policy thinker is straight-facedly claiming. Robert Kaplan has been dispensing advice for decades on how to manage the world, and his words have often been heeded. In the mid-1990s,... Read more |
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Views Friday, July 04, 2014 "Missing" Verdict: U.S. Guilty in Chile In a remarkable judicial verdict in Chile, the U.S. government has been held responsible for the deaths of two of its own countrymen 40 years ago. “The United States military intelligence services played a pivotal role in setting up the murders of two American citizens in 1973, providing the... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, August 06, 2013 After Sikh Temple Killings, We Need To Take Hate Seriously One year after the Sikh temple massacre in Oak Creek, Wis., we still aren’t grappling seriously enough with intolerance. The gunman who shot down six worshippers on Aug. 5, 2012, before turning his pistol on himself, was motivated by bigotry. Wade Michael Page had a dubious history. Read more |
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Views Sunday, June 09, 2013 Obama Shouldn’t Have Chosen Susan Rice Susan Rice will bring considerable baggage to her role as National Security Adviser. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, June 05, 2013 Austerity is Killing Us The economic poison of austerity is literally killing thousands, as a recent book so superbly makes clear. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, April 03, 2013 Indian Court Ruling Victory for Patients Around the World An Indian court just granted a huge victory to the sick all over the planet. Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 16, 2013 Wall Street Execs Should Face Criminal Consequences Another day, another Wall Street scandal—and yet another instance where the perpetrators will quite certainly get little more than a slap on the wrist. Read more |