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We See Them for What We Need Them to Be

An incandescent moment in an otherwise forgettable movie.  En route to committing a crime (stealing $10 million of platinum), a car full of thieves (and murderers) gets caught in the uprising (riot?) following the acquittal of the police who beat…

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…

World

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

People are paralyzed

How can it be? How can an obvious genocide, perpetrated by a small country, be allowed to occur? How can a small and newly developed nation, with a slight population…

Gaza, I write this in total Despair!

I write this in total despair. I don’t generally write articles. I’m an editor. I let others speak through my website, Countercurrents.org. Only when no one else is standing up,…

Muddled Middle East Thinking

What is the crisis in the Middle East? If somebody asked me, I would take the person back to Babuji Memorial Ashram at Mannappakam, Chennai, where I stayed for four…

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

Jesus Christ as a Feminist

The assertion that Jesus Christ can be understood as a feminist is one that initially seems anachronistic, given that the term "feminism" and its associated theories emerged many centuries after…

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…

Arts/Literature

Life Beneath the Shadow of Walls

The Israel-Palestine conflict is often narrated through the lens of politics, terrorism, and armed aggression. But there are stories that unfold far from the echo chambers of diplomacy and warfare—stories…

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…

Editor's Picks

Gaza, I write this in total Despair!

I write this in total despair. I don’t generally write articles. I’m an editor. I let others speak through my website, Countercurrents.org. Only when no one else is standing up,…

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…

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