Articles by Arun Gupta
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Arundhati Roy: ‘The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution.’
Arun Gupta – The Guardian,
5 Dec 2011
The prize-winning author of The God of Small Things talks about why she is drawn to the Occupy movement and the need to reclaim language and meaning.
→ read full articleTsunami and Nuke Disaster: How Human Arrogance Intensifies Suffering
Arun Gupta – AlterNet,
28 Mar 2011
How a society is impacted depends on how it is organized. The February 2010 earthquake in Chile, which claimed less than 600 lives, was about 500 times more powerful than Haiti’s 7.0 magnitude convulsion that killed more than 222,000 people. Japan’s quake at magnitude 9.0 was even more powerful than Chile’s, but relatively few people appear to have perished from the tremor itself because of Japan’s famed emergency preparedness. It was the tsunami that killed thousands and the apocalyptic meltdowns that may claim many more lives still.
→ read full articleMythmaking: How the U.S. Corporate Media Got the Israel Flotilla Catastrophe So Wrong
Arun Gupta – Alternet,
28 Jun 2010
The founding editor of the Indypendent newspaper documents the lies and distortions perpetrated by the U.S. media about the Gaza Freedom Flotilla.
→ read full articleMORE PAIN FOR DEVASTATED HAITI: UNDER THE PRETENSE OF DISASTER RELIEF, U.S. RUNNING A MILITARY OCCUPATION
Arun Gupta – Znet,
26 Feb 2010
Official denials aside, the United States has embarked on a new military occupation of Haiti thinly cloaked as disaster relief. While both the Pentagon and the United Nations claimed more troops were needed to provide "security and stability" to bring in aid, according to nearly all independent observers in the field, violence was never an […]
→ read full articleGONZO GASTRONOMY: HOW THE FOOD INDUSTRY HAS MADE BACON A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION
Arun Gupta,
23 Jul 2009
The confluence of factory farming, the boom in fast food and manipulation of consumer taste created processed foods that can hook us like drugs.Among my fondest childhood memories is savoring a strip of perfectly cooked bacon that had just been dragged through a puddle of maple syrup. It was an illicit pleasure; varnishing the fatty, […]
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