Indian author and dissident Arundhati Roy calls democracy “the biggest scam on Earth” in a climate where so-called ‘democracies’ are the driving forces of war, poverty and disenfranchisement. She provides harsh, educated critiques of the American Empire and India’s U.S.-enabled occupation of Kashmir and oppression within in an interview with Amy Goodman and Anjali Kamat at Democracy Now!
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Arundhati Roy: ‘What is Peace? We Need Resistance and Not Just on the Weekends’ (Video)
Posted: 22 March 2010 by Editors in India-Pakistan; 26/11, International Affairs, Political ScienceTags: 26/11, activism, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, American Empire, Amy Goodman, Anjali Kamat, Bush Administration, communists, corporatism, democracy, Democracy Now, DN, fascism, Gandhi, genocide, George Bush, GK Pillai, human rights, imperialism, India, international law, Iraq, Iraq War, Kashmir, Kishenji, Koteswar Rao, liberal democracies, Manmohan Singh, Maoist, Mumbai attacks, Naxalites, Newspeak, Obama Administration, occupation, Operation Green Hunt, Pakistan, poverty, resistance, revolution, rigged elections, Taliban, terrorism, US, voting, War, War on Terror
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