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Why Israel Needs the US and Why It Could Backfire on the US

Israel’s war on Iran is escalating fast. Within six days, Israeli airstrikes killed top Iranian military commanders and destroyed several surface-level civilian installations. But one key target remains untouched: Iran’s deeply buried non-military nuclear infrastructure, which Israel has used as a…

Food Security is Everyone’s Business

Food security, where everyone has access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food at all times, is not just a development goal. It is a human right. Yet in Nigeria and across the globe, this right is under serious threat. Rising inflation, climate change,…

How Much for One Protein?

Showing my age a bit, a young Chris Rock in a 1988 movie amusingly asks: “How much for one rib?” Given that the crafting of a single protein plays a central role in this post, and ribs are a source…

Empty shelves, empty stomachs

At the end of our street is al-Sahaba market. It is no longer somewhere to fetch food. It is now quiet and gray, a place where the people are often greeted with shelves as empty as their stomachs. Since 2…

When Poets Become Bridges Between Iran and Israel

In a world increasingly fragmented by ideological conflicts and military hostilities, poetry often becomes one of the few surviving forms of honest human dialogue. The cases of Iran and Israel—two nations embroiled in mutual suspicion, geopolitical hostility, and historical trauma—offer…

India

Hypocrisy of RSS chief

All the heads of RSS have always been saying that RSS is a cultural organisation. And we only do the work of character building in our organisation. We have no…

Economic Lies Told by Governments!

Some recent headlines in newspapers regarding the country’s economy: Sources for such headlines include government economic institutions and interest-earning financial organizations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund…

World

Trump’s Nuclear Fool’s Gold

STOCKHOLM – Will US President Donald Trump’s vision of building an impregnable missile-defense system be the final nail in the coffin for strategic nuclear arms control? Given that his proposed…

Globalisation

Human Rights

Imperialism

The Fraud of Endless War

There is not a single war or serious military confrontation since WWII involving the U.S. that needed to be fought. Every conflict where soldiers and civilians suffered death or injury…

Communal Harmony

Climate Change

Climate Socialism

I am writing this message to the millions of people who have been involved in the climate movement over the past several years. This movement has been an incredible force,…

Environmental Protection

Plummeting Insects

Insects are vanishing from pristine rainforests. “Around the world many insect populations are crashing.” (Natural History Museum, April 2025) Insects are crucial for the health of nature, whereas humans are…

Green Crime Goes Global

RIO DE JANEIRO – In late 2024, Brazilian federal police dismantled a sprawling illegal gold mining network in Pará, exposing a criminal enterprise that stretched far beyond the rainforest. The operation, part…

Counter Solutions

Food Security is Everyone’s Business

Food security, where everyone has access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food at all times, is not just a development goal. It is a human right. Yet in Nigeria and across the globe,…

Self-Determined: Solidarity in Sovereignty

Less than four months into the second Trump presidency, we’ve witnessed a barrage of destructive policies, aggressive actions, and increasingly alarming rhetoric driven by greed and authoritarian ambition. While I am…

Can degrowth communism save the world?

This is the first in a series on Possible Worlds, envisioning alternatives to the current system in the spirit of “Another world is possible.” Confronting our current political situation, we need…

Resource Crisis

The Gritty Reality of Solar Power

by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox Time is fast running out. The world’s affluent nations, with their abundant greenhouse emissions, have to finally drag themselves across the starting line…

Patriarchy

Palestine

Empty shelves, empty stomachs

At the end of our street is al-Sahaba market. It is no longer somewhere to fetch food. It is now quiet and gray, a place where the people are often…

South Asia

Annihilate Caste

The violence of being Unseen

(A personal reflection on the quiet violence of caste-based exclusion in everyday, intimate spaces.) It’s not like someone installed a software in me to feel excluded. It was the repeated…

Life/Philosophy

How Much for One Protein?

Showing my age a bit, a young Chris Rock in a 1988 movie amusingly asks: “How much for one rib?” Given that the crafting of a single protein plays a…

Fathers and Sons

“In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.”― Friedrich Nietzsche Early June. Dawn brings mist covered mountains and an empty road. The car’s capsule draws us together. I…

72nd Avenue

“It will take time to adjust. So be patient. It’s no less than your rebirth.” Those words of a wise uncle still echo into my memory. Even though they were…

Living In The Past

     As we renew our friendships with friends we haven’t met for years, we sometimes have that uneasy feeling that something is not going well with some of them.     …

Arts/Literature

Meanwhile in Gaza

From Tehran to Tel AvivTel Aviv to Tehran,the world’s worried gaze follows--the flying trajectory ofunsparing projectiles,the unsettling light showsin the night’s nonchalant sky,the pawned population’spanicky search for shelters,the ineffaceable images…

A Mosque in Gaza

The mosque is now a mass grave:those who came to prayhave been buried under the rubblecovered in the shroud ofblood, dust, and splinters. They were just some regular folks,unflinching in…

The Hood;A Review

The Hood is a new novel by celebrated author, columnist and translator from Kashmir, Mushtaque B Barq. Barq has introduced a new phenomenon in the story line where Hoods of…

Book Review

Portrait of a Revolutionary

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subhas Chandra Ganguly A Commemorative Collection of Life Sketches in English and Bengali Edited by Frontier Collective 2024, GERMINAL PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD., Pp 319, Price Rs. 500/- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most…

Rice, A Global History

Rice has a story that is anything but typical while being one of the most universal meals. "Not even the smartest housewife can cook without rice." From the earliest paddies…

No Room for Silly Sinophobia

In an era of intense Sinophobia, “China in Global Capitalism:  Building International Solidarity against Imperial Rivalry,” published by Haymarket Books is an important book.  Most analyses of China emanating from…

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The Plot Against America

How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government.…

The Fuhrer Is Here

This an article I wrote on 16 December 2002, just after Modi was re-elected as CM of Gujrat for a second term. For some strange reasons, the article can't be…

Deaths in Gaza and Us

Death is normal unless if it happens one of our dear and near ones. 40000+ (as per official figures) people have been killed in Gaza. According to The Lancet almost…

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