Beneath the rhetoric of liberation and security lies the violent logic of far-right ideology, now mainstreamed into the architecture of American and Israeli statecraft. March 9, 2026 When the first bombs fell on Tehran in the early hours of February 28, the language from Washington and Tel Aviv was grimly familiar. Iran was an existential threat. Its nuclear ambitions imperiled civilization. The Iranian people yearned for liberation. The strikes, we were assured, were precise, intelligence-driven, surgical. Within hours, over 165 schoolgirls lay dead in the rubble of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab. Their textbooks were pulled from the wreckage alongside severed limbs. The liberators had arrived. What is unfolding across the Middle East is not, as its architects insist, a defensive operation or a humanitarian intervention. It is an act of violent extremism — white supremacist in its civilizational logic, far-right Zionist in its territorial ambitions, and catastrop...
This blog offers Mohan Dutta's reflections on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, examining the interplays among culture, communication and marginalisation. It also explores resistance, the ways in which communities at the margins challenge structures. Writings on the blog are updated to reflect the organic analysis of structure and agency. These analyses are offered on a personal capacity and do not reflect the views of Prof. Dutta's employer.