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Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratios: Nazi-style Genocidal Racism Of US, UK, Australia & Apartheid Israel
The huge city of Gaza has been reduced to rubble but the killing continues with US-backed Apartheid Israel now bombing Lebanon. Perhaps the only thing that will stop the Zionazis and their backers is exposure of the shocking disproportionality between…
Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah and Hamas. There are conflicting reports about how many of the…
Words Kill – Why Israel Gets Away with Murder in Gaza and Lebanon
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is that the Lebanese are hiding long-range missile launchers in their own homes. This official explanation…
Onward White Christian MAGA Soldiers!!!
The 1960 Stanley Kramer classic film ' Inherit the Wind' is a must see for everyone, especially our young middle and high school students. This film focused on the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial when a teacher was arrested for teaching…
Kievan Russia (882−1242): The Original National State of Russians
In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’!) became directly and indirectly subject to external political influences by several external political…
How Some Human Beings Are Dehumanized to Kill a Large Number of Fellow Human Beings, and How This Impacts Them
It is an essential part of being human beings that people have at least some compassion towards fellow human beings and they hesitate when they have to harm others in serious ways (expect when this is essential for self-defence). Despite…
Condemn the detention of nearly 200 peaceful climate marchers from Ladakh to Delhi
by Vikalp Sangam General Assembly* & The Western Himalayan Vikalp Sangam We, over 85 organisations and movements across India, condemn the detention of nearly 200 peaceful climate marchers from Ladakh to Delhi who are raising valid demands of climate justice…
US, Israeli officials demand major attack on Tehran after Iranian missile strike
US and Israeli officials openly endorsed a large-scale attack on Iran Tuesday, following a strike by Tehran on Israel with 185 ballistic missiles the same day. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called for strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, a…
Gendering and Democratizing Indian Cinema
Besides being renowned artists, French Actress Sarah Bernhardt and American actress Eartha Kitt have something in common. They were victims of sexual abuse and harassment at work. Their lived experiences made them activists against gender-based violence and they were instrumental…
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange delivered a powerful speech Tuesday in Strasbourg, France during a 90-minute session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He described 14 years of extra-judicial persecution, lawfare and imprisonment against him by the…
India
Condemn the detention of nearly 200 peaceful climate marchers from Ladakh to Delhi
by Vikalp Sangam General Assembly* & The Western Himalayan Vikalp Sangam We, over 85 organisations and movements across India, condemn the detention of nearly 200 peaceful climate marchers from Ladakh…
Gendering and Democratizing Indian Cinema
Besides being renowned artists, French Actress Sarah Bernhardt and American actress Eartha Kitt have something in common. They were victims of sexual abuse and harassment at work. Their lived experiences…
The Need for Strict Action Against Companies Manufacturing Spurious Medicines
The news that 53 medicines claiming to relieve ailments such as fever, pain, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc., have failed to meet quality standards during trials is concerning. The inclusion…
How India Leads the World in Internet Shutdowns, Far Ahead of Conflict Zones Like Myanmar and Ukraine?
On September 10, the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur imposed a five-day internet shutdown in response to student-led protests. While this sparked outrage among citizens, it came as no surprise.…
PUCL condemns the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and about 150 Ladakhi Padyatris by the Delhi police
People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) condemns the detention of climate activist Sonam Wangchuk and about 150 Ladakhi Padyatris by the Delhi police and the arbitrary imposition of prohibitory orders…
Accede to the legitimate demands of the Ladakhi people
Over 200 Ladakhi people of all ages, left Leh on 2nd September 2024, walking in peaceful procession over very difficult high-altitude, mountainous terrain, to reach Delhi on the occasion of…
World
Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC),…
Onward White Christian MAGA Soldiers!!!
The 1960 Stanley Kramer classic film ' Inherit the Wind' is a must see for everyone, especially our young middle and high school students. This film focused on the 1925…
Kievan Russia (882−1242): The Original National State of Russians
In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’!) became directly and…
How Some Human Beings Are Dehumanized to Kill a Large Number of Fellow Human Beings, and How This Impacts Them
It is an essential part of being human beings that people have at least some compassion towards fellow human beings and they hesitate when they have to harm others in…
Julian Assange delivers first speech since release from UK prison: “I pleaded guilty to journalism”
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange delivered a powerful speech Tuesday in Strasbourg, France during a 90-minute session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He described 14 years…
Unrealisable Justice: Julian Assange in Strasbourg
It was good to hear that voice again. A voice of provoking interest that pitter patters, feline across a parquet, followed by the usual devastating conclusion. Julian Assange’s last public…
Globalisation
80 years is enough: Fight for food, land, and climate justice! Shut down the IMF-World Bank!
Rural peoples’ movements and communities demand the shutdown of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Over the past 80 years, imperialist governments and their transnational corporations (TNCs) have…
Comparing How the West and China Offer Loans to Developing Countries
Established Western economic institutions are facing a formidable challenge from Chinese newcomers, each side offering distinct and competitive lending strategies with far-reaching consequences for global infrastructure and development. In October…
It’s Not Capitalism… It’s MONEYISM!!
Here it is from an old college buddy and confidante of mine, J D. This former progressive talk radio host and socialist thinker nailed it with his commentary on things…
Why Garment Workers in Bangladesh are on Strike
Bangladesh is a major producer of garments supplying to world’s top brands such as H & M, Lewis, Gucci, Zara and many others. Nearly 4.0 million workers, mostly women toil…
Tossing Neoliberalism into the Dumpster
It’s official, according to a speech by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, the United States is jumping off the neoliberal globalization bandwagon (a root cause of domestic extremism) and it…
Corporatizing the World One Small Company at a Time
I remember when my small town lost its last family owned and run pharmacy — a beautiful, old, turn of the century store and a high quality company that the…
Human Rights
The Saga of Hope – Guruvammal
On the night of September 27th, I was asked to accompany my colleagues to meet a grandmother named Guruvammal to update her about the case. I was astonished to find…
Condemn The Arrest Of Kartik Naik In Sijimali, Odisha
Bhubaneswar, Odisha: We, unequivocally condemn the arrest of Kartik Naik, a vocal and committed leader of the struggle against Vedanta’s bauxite mining in South Odisha. Thirty-year-old Kartik was picked up…
Protection of Children’s Fundamental Rights
Children's fundamental rights are those essential rights required for every child's survival, growth, development, and protection. Safeguarding these rights is not only crucial for their well-being but also essential for…
Missouri to Palestine-Where is feminism in murder?
The state of Missouri murdered Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams on Tuesday, September 24th, at 6 pm central time. His last meal was chicken wings and tater tots; his last words were,…
Mental Health and Prison
"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other" - Angela…
Why new cases framed against Rupesh?
It is deeply concerning that new cases are reportedly being framed against political prisoner Rupesh, who has been imprisoned in Viyyur Central Jail for nearly ten years under accusations of…
Imperialism
Militarism Abuse Disorder-A Very American Malaise
My name is Frida and my community is military dependent. (I feel, by the way, like I’m introducing myself at a very strange AA-like meeting with lousy coffee.) As with people…
Power at the US Empire’s (Not OK) Corral
Today, Americans are getting an education in reality that generally cannot be bought, although it might not quite seem that way. We are seeing Israel committing genocide as it is…
A Short Overview of Making Colonial Empires by European Powers from the Time of the Vienna Congress up to WWI (1815−1914)
The period in the world’s history from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the beginning of the Great War (1914) is usually labeled as the “golden age” of…
USA: From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Arsenal of Genocide
During World War II, American leaders proudly proclaimed this country the “arsenal of democracy,” supplying weapons and related materiel to allies like Great Britain and the Soviet Union. To cite just…
Who Wants to Kill and Die for the American Empire?
The Associated Press reports that many of the recruits drafted under Ukraine’s new conscription law lack the motivation and military indoctrination required to actually aim their weapons and fire at…
Imperialism in the Indo-Pacific—An Introduction
by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark Indo-Pacific is a term with a long history within the imperialist lexicon. It originated in the writings of Karl Haushofer, the leading German geopolitical theorist, in his…
Communal Harmony
Appeal for Communal Harmony in Himachal Pradesh
We hail the large-scale participation in the peace and unity march by members of the civil society and democratic groups on 27th September 2024 in Shimla and Solan against the…
The Perils of Religious Nationalism: A Contemporary Dilemma
Abstract: Religious nationalism is a subject of critical importance in much of the world today. As the resurgence of religious nationalism in various parts of the world is a phenomenon…
Godi media’s campaign of lies in the name of a Delhi Minorities Commission report
Godi media channels and websites are carrying out a propaganda campaign these days. It is claimed that Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) and Delhi Waqf Board (DWB) want to grab Hindu…
Urgent Appeal to Stand by the Rights of the Minority Religious Community in Shimla
We belong to Shimla, Himachal Pradesh and are deeply aggrieved by the gravity of circumstances that have built up in the last few weeks around the Mosque in Sanjauli, Shimla.…
Combating Islamophobia: A task overdue
In July 2024 England witnessed riots and unrest in several cities. They were precipitated mainly due to misinformation and anti immigration sentiments among the people. In these riots Muslims were the main…
Rising Communal Tensions in Odisha
Odisha, India – The Ganatantrik Adhikar Suraksha Sangathan (GASS) expresses concern over the rising communal tensions in Odisha, a state traditionally known for its peace and harmony. Recent developments, including…
Climate Change
Hurricane Helene devastates a wide swathe of southeastern United States
The largest hurricane to hit the US mainland this year, Hurricane Helene hit the Florida coastline late Thursday as a Category Four storm, devastating much of the Big Bend area…
Climate Week/NYC – Oh, Well!
Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, is underway and expects 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s ultra-expensive hotels amidst breast-pounding speeches and promises to fix civilizations’…
Forest fires engulf the entire Amazon basin
by Cesar Uco and Don Knowand Forest fires have consumed millions of hectares in the Amazon basin this year, due to global warming, an extreme two-year drought, and the illegal…
Ecological Alternatives to Climate Change
Everyone agrees to the fact that Climate change is caused principally by the burning of fossil fuels. These fuels are consumed by Capital although the industrial development especially during the…
Important climate mitigation information from the Phanerozoic eon
There is a very important new climate science paper which promises to dramatically increase concern about potential impacts and needed mitigation. Bill McKibben titles his review of the paper ‘The…
The Case for a Global Climate Assembly
by Laurence Tubiana and Ana Toni NEW YORK – It has been nearly ten years since countries came together in Paris and agreed finally to get serious about averting a…
Environmental Protection
A Faustian Bargain with Corporate Power: From Monsanto to Bayer, the Worst of Both Worlds
Environmentalist and campaigner Rosemary Mason has been relentlessly exposing the insidious effects of agrochemicals on human health and the environment through a decade-long series of incisive reports. Many of these…
Global Drinking Water Crisis
The crisis of drinking water has become a serious and growing challenge worldwide. This issue is worsening due to several factors, including climate change, population explosion, urbanization, industrialization, and imbalanced…
Corporate Europe Observatory’s Report on ‘Bayer’s Toxic Trails’ Deserves the Close Attention of All
The Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) has rendered a great public service by very recently publishing a report titled ‘Bayer’s Toxic Trails’ which reveals how the German agrochemical giant Bayer has…
New law facilitating the entry of GMOs into Senegal: Senegal in danger!
1. New GMO law in Senegal. On June 3, 2022, Senegal adopted a new law facilitating the entry of GMOs into the country, a law adopted under pressure from the…
Water Sovereignty Can Only Be Achieved Through Proper Rainwater Management
Water is the fundamental element of life. It is essential for all living beings on Earth. However, due to increasing population and uncontrolled development, water scarcity has become a serious…
Withdraw National Tiger Conservation Authority’s directive to relocate tribal communities from Tiger Reserves
To Dr G.S Bhardwaj,Additional Director General of Forests (Project Tiger),Member Secretary,National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) New Delhi Subject: Objection to the NTCA's directive for the relocation of tribal communities from…
Counter Solutions
On Jugaad
Jugaaḍ is a non-conventional, frugal innovation, in Indian subcontinent. It also includes innovative fixes or a simple workaround, solutions that bend the rules, or resources that can be used in…
How Increasing Self-Reliance of Villages Can be a Very Useful Part of Climate Response
Climate change mitigation and adaptation are two very important challenges of our times, important for all countries, regions and people. However the response must be in tune with the livelihood…
Certainty
I struggle to strike a balance between certainty and circumspection. Our culture has a tendency to favor certainty, while one of my favorite and frequent fall-backs—seldom wrong—is: “we don’t know.”…
Ancient settlements show that commoning is ‘natural’ for humans, not selfishness and competition
When I’ve had conversations about the commons with right-leaning people (and sometimes cynical people on the left too), a typical response might be something along the lines of: ‘don’t waste your time…
On Composting Space
Oh! Shit! Yes, let us talk some shit! All animals shit, including human beings. What happens to the shit? It gets composted and goes back to soil. That is until…
Money is a Social Agreement—Let’s Start Treating It That Way
Like most people, I usually mute and ignore advertisements; however, one caught my attention. It was the new Barclays advert—have you seen it? Well, whether you have or you haven’t…
Resource Crisis
The Project of Capital and the Project of the Proletariat in a time of World Crisis
ABSTRACT This is a response to the two sets of articles written by Sajai Jose on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and on the world’s and India’s hunger crisis. It is…
Sustaining the Unsustainable: Why Renewable Energy Companies Are Not Climate Warriors
In the fight to address climate change, renewable energy companies are often assumed to be Jedi Knights. Valiantly struggling to save the planet, wind and solar interests are thought to…
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…
Solidarity with Resistance to Extraction
by Don Fitz and the Green Party of St. Louis People the world over are opposing fossil fuel extraction in an incalculable number of ways. It is now clear that…
Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?
Thanks to its very name — renewable energy — we can picture a time in the not-too-distant future when our need for non-renewable fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal…
The Growth Of Fascism Or The Fascism Of Growth?
Bear with me, scrupulous historians, as I try to run through some questions and parallels between centuries that I hope will enrich the essential debate on how to confront the…
Patriarchy
Disentangling Khap Preeminence: A Feminist Critique
by Syed Wajahat Ali & Zuberiya Nauman “ women’s freedom is the sign of social freedom” ~ Rosa Luxemburg Abstract Women have to go through a life and…
Treat a woman; a human!
Dhoom Forever? Boyssss and Wolves. (Where does the remedy lie?) Treat a woman; a human! How do you feel when you read a Rape Report? Do you check for religion?…
The Patriarchal Politics of Security
On August 9, 2024, a female doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, was brutally raped and murdered in a seminar room on the fourth floor, where she had gone to rest…
On Desire, Power & Ethics: What RG Kar Rape Victim’s Name Going Viral On Google Tells Us About Our Society’s Moral Position on Women?
by Azmat Sadiq & Gunjan Das In the wake of nationwide protests over the brutal rape and murder of a resident doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College in Kolkata, there…
The Patriarchal War on Indian Women
On August 9, 2024, a female doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, was brutally raped and murdered in a seminar room on the fourth floor, where she had gone to rest…
Who should Jaya (Bhaduri) Bachchan be?
Very recently, I watched the Bachchan vs Dhankhar showdown during a Rajya Sabha session. The treatment of Jaya Bachchan, an actor turned politician since 2012, and a 5th time elected…
Palestine
Occupied/Occupier Reprisals Death Ratios: Nazi-style Genocidal Racism Of US, UK, Australia & Apartheid Israel
The huge city of Gaza has been reduced to rubble but the killing continues with US-backed Apartheid Israel now bombing Lebanon. Perhaps the only thing that will stop the Zionazis…
Words Kill – Why Israel Gets Away with Murder in Gaza and Lebanon
The official Israeli army version of why it has targeted civilian areas during the intense and deadly bombardment of September 20 in south Lebanon is that the Lebanese are hiding…
US, Israeli officials demand major attack on Tehran after Iranian missile strike
US and Israeli officials openly endorsed a large-scale attack on Iran Tuesday, following a strike by Tehran on Israel with 185 ballistic missiles the same day. Former Israeli Prime Minister…
Israel launches ground operations in Lebanon amid ongoing air bombardment
The Israeli military launched its ground incursion into southern Lebanon early Tuesday morning. While Israeli officials claimed that ground operations would be limited in scope, scale and duration, the claims…
Need for action
Reminder: There is an ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Maybe we need reminder of other facts showing why this matters globally and ask how we collectively can act to stop…
War on Humanity: How Israel and America Forged Deception of Collaborative Collision?
Wicked Leaders Pretend to be Peacemakers Evil is a force and righteousness is characteristic of living humanity. They claim democracy but act like monsters of history never open to reason…
South Asia
Presidential Marxism: AKD and the Sri Lankan Elections
Anura Kumara Dissanayake, known with convenient laziness as AKD, became Sri Lanka’s latest president after a runoff count focusing on preferential votes. The very fact that it went to a…
Bangladesh’s July-August Uprising: A Student Movement That Transcended Quota Reform
The July-August 2024 student-public uprising in Bangladesh began with a call for government job quota reforms but swiftly evolved into a profound challenge to the political status quo. What started…
The Left Wins Presidential Election in Sri Lanka
by Atul Chandra and Vijay Prashad On September 22, 2024, the Sri Lankan election authority announced that Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP)…
“There is enough negativity. We should remember the positive, for a better future”: India-Pakistan and Transformative Nostalgia
The independence of the Indian subcontinent from British Rule was accompanied by a partition on religious lines. One of the largest migrations in human history, the partition witnessed unimaginable violence…
De-dollarize to De-colonize: Sri Lanka must Pivot to the BRICS, Embrace the Asian 21st Century after Elections
In the run up to elections the post-Marxist National People’s Party (NPP), has run a high-gloss, foreign-funded, election campaign to market its policies as a ‘new dawn’. Remarkably, the NPP…
Post-Hasina Bangladesh and the Indian media
On August 5, 2024, a student led mass uprising ended Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League government’s decade and a half long despotic rule in Bangladesh. Hasina fled…
Annihilate Caste
Poona Pact and Its Adverse Effects
Caste is considered to be the cornerstone of Indian Hindu society. In this structure of hierarchical inequality, the untouchables are at the lowest level, who were officially called 'Depressed Classes'…
Has the Caste Vanished?
Amid the twin issues of Caste Census and Sub-categorization of reservation of SCs/STs and ‘creamy layer’ among SCs, it must be remembered that caste issues have always been tweaked and…
Justice Chandru Committee’s Report On Caste Discrimination In Tamilnadu’s Schools – More notable are the attitudes and responses in the Periyarist state
The one-man committee of Justice K Chandru handed over its 600-page report to the the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin (second from Right) on June 18, 2024. Three…
Empowering the last person of the most marginalised sections was the dream of Dr Ambedkar
Vidya Bhushan Rawat's conversation with Ambedkarite writer Sanjeev Khudshah on why he supports classification of the scheduled castes for reservation purposes Sanjeev Khudshah was born on 12 February 1973 in…
The Morality of “Paying Back” amidst the Academic Uncertainties among Dalit Early Career Researcher
How does the moral obligation to ‘pay back to society’ manifest in the lives of early-career researchers (ECRs) from the Dalit community? While this obligation is imperative for social justice,…
From Buddha to Bhakti Movement to BR Ambedkar, from Democracy to Modernity – The Antidotes to Caste Have Failed to Work
The caste system in India, a rigid social hierarchy that classifies people into different groups based on birth, has long been a source of inequality and discrimination. Despite numerous efforts…
Life/Philosophy
Birth of ‘Hind Swarajya’
'Hind Swarajya' was born in the middle of the ocean on a ship called 'Kildonan Castle'! Gandhiji worked very hard during this stay! In a letter written to Maganlal Gandhi…
Mahatma Gandhi’s Birth Anniversary Comes at A Time When the World Is Deeply Threatened by War, Conflict and Environmental Crisis
The choice is no longer between violence and non-violence. It is now either non-violence or non-existence. ---Martin Luther King I and others may be revolutionaries, but we are the disciples…
On the occasion of 92nd birth anniversary of Hamid Dalwai
Hamid Dalwai was born on 29 September 1932 in a village named Mirjoli near Chiplun in Konkan. His father was a Maulvi and he wished that his son also becomes…
Chakali Ilamma, a great communist revolutionary fighter of Telangana Peasant Armed struggle (1946-51), now widely remembered
Chakali Ilamma, born 1895 Sep 26- 1985 Sep10. She was a great communist revolutionary fighter of Telangana Peasant Armed struggle (1946-51), who is widely remembered, latest officially on Sep26, and…
A Day to Remember Shankar Guha Niyogi’s Deep Commitment to Fighting Injustice and the Many-Sided Positive Dimensions of His Trade Union Work
September 28 is the death anniversary of India’s inspiring and highly creative trade union leader Shankar Guha Niyogi. It was on this day that he was assassinated at the peak…
Increasing Relevance of the Message of Shahid Bhagat Singh
On 28 September India observes the birth anniversary of one of the greatest and most remembered revolutionary heroes of the freedom movement who sacrificed his life at the age of…
Arts/Literature
Looking Up
I realized recentlyThatIf you look up at a pine treeFrom a certain angleWith both of your feetPlanted deep in its shadowIts branches become never-ending.Standing there like that, you can seeHow…
A Pearl inside an Oyster: A Tribute to Maestro S D Burman
Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls…Give your hearts, but not each other’s keeping.…
Gullible audience applauds Gandhi killer Nathuram Godse
The play Nathuram Godse Must Die written and directed by Bharat Dabholkar is wildly propagandist , glorifies the murderer of Mahatma Gandhi and is full of distortions even while it…
Wait till you see K K’s lights!
That was my introduction to K K Mahajan, at 27, with two National Awards, already a ‘star’ cinematographer, with his characteristic long hair and aquiline features. As a research student in Sociology at Bombay University,…
The twosome Salim-Javed ‘script’ gone wrong!
I watched the three-parts docu-series ‘Angry Young Men’ based on the lives and times of the writer duo Salim-Javed, with quite an attention, as both these men, despite the fact,…
Toronto International Film Festival 2024: A Cinematic Celebration in the Heart of Autumn
As Canada embraces the beauty of autumn and steps into the chilly onset of winter, the city of Toronto once again witnessed the curtain fall on the 'festival of festivals.'…
Book Review
Visualizing Palestine
For the most part coffee-table books serve only two purposes: They look aesthetic in a living room, and they lend faux intellectual credibility to their owners: The second, of course,…
The Violence of Development: New Version of the book Food, Dependency and Dispossession: Resisting the New World Order
A revised version (September 2024) of the open-access e-book ‘Food Dependency and Dispossession: Resisting the New World Order’ (2022) by Colin Todhunter is now available. A brand-new concluding chapter,…
Nehru: The Invention of India by Shashi Tharoor
"Nehru: The Invention of India", penned by Shashi Tharoor in 2003, is a nuanced exploration of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister. This work serves as a compelling biography that…
Syeda’s Story: Glimpse into the lives of Home based Women Workers
Home-based workers in India represent a significant yet often overlooked segment of the labor force. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), there are approximately 37.4 million home-based workers in…
A New Book On Bicycle
‘The Bicycle in India: Selected Articles and Stories’ by T. Vijayendra. Hyderabad, 2024, Ecologise Hyderabad. Price Rs. 100/ This is a book about the bicycle in India in the context…
The Black Book
Published in 1974, The Black Book is not just an anthology or a historical document; it is a profound and multifaceted cultural artefact that encapsulates the African American experience from…
Editor's Picks
Climate Change: Why Should The Global South Pay For The Profligacy Of The Likes Of Taylor Swift, Elon Musk?
Climate change is a threat facing the whole of humanity. The real generators of this crisis are the developed economies of the Global North. They found a way to circumvent…
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…
Landslide In Wayanad Is Only The Beginning!
On the morning of July 30, a huge landslide occurred at Mundakkai, in the mountainous district of Wayanad, Kerala, India. 282 people have been confirmed dead and many hundreds are…
Stories that can bring a positive change deserve to be called news: Binu Mathew
At a time when the Indian media is increasingly being controlled by the rich and dominated by the caste elites, Countercurrents.org has set up an example of giving space to…
A People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy – 2.0
This is an updated version of the “People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy” that Countercurrents.org published on 15th August 2020, where we set out a broad framework on how India should…
Countercurrents.org Resisting Fascism Since 2002; Save This People’s Journal; Make Liberal Financial Contributions for Its Survival. Now!
I have before me the following documents: “Why should Binu Mathew while struggling day and night to make the voices for justice heard, struggle even today with appeals for subscriptions?”…
COVID Response Watch
Shadow of Covid lingers over the erstwhile Kingdom of Cooch Behar
The princely state of Cooch Behar merged with the Dominion of India on August 8, 1949 and became a part of the State of West Bengal on January 1, 1950.…
Public life in MP disrupted by heavy rains linked to climate change
Roads are crumbling, bridges are collapsing and railway lines are flooded . The surging waters from the rivers are drowning entire villages all around. It has rained so much that…
Hanging by a thread, Sheffield of the East
Sometimes it was a rise in pig iron prices due to disruption of supply chains due to the Covid pandemic. Now you can find the Ukraine War as a reason…
Malnutrition and death of children decreased in the system, increased in reality
In Maharashtra, the administration has been claiming that there is a steady decline in the number of malnutrition and child deaths in the state. But, in recent figures that have…
When Forest Rights meets Right to Education
With the horrors of the deadly virus still in the air, this would appear to be like a remarkable fairy tale in the post-Covid pandemic scenario, almost like a dream…
Uttarakhand In Need of Climate Resilient Agriculture Practices
In the last few years, we have been witnessing erratic, unpredictable and unexpected changes in climate, which are more perceptible in the Himalayan region of the country. These changes are…
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