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Netanyahu’s Toxic Temptations

Whatever our political affiliations might be, there is no denying that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to navigate his way through the worst crisis that hit Israel since 1948. As this crisis gathered momentum, Netanyahu became…

Genocide Australia, Part One

Indigenous Relationality, gender, genocide, human atrocities and climate justice: Australia, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, India, Palestine, Ukraine: traditional and social media in the making of harm or help. When voices speak from those who survive genocide to save our diverse civilisations…

How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change

Almost everything we buy exploits the environment and the people who depend on it to a greater or lesser extent. Almost everything we buy contributes to climate breakdown through emissions, local environmental degradation, or, most commonly, both. Yet, in a…

The Future of Our World by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky (95) famous dissident and father of modern linguistics, considered one of the world’s leading intellectuals, is recovering from a stroke he suffered at age 94 and now living with his wife in Brazil. According to a report in…

India

The Fight for Women’s Freedom

On 15th August 2024, India marks its 78th Independence Day. Six days earlier, a female doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College, Kolkata, was brutally raped and murdered in a seminar…

World

The Candidate from Hell

Donald Trump is all too literally the candidate from hell and, yes, he’s threatening to take the United States and the world to — no place else! — hell and…

Globalisation

Human Rights

Imperialism

War and Famine

Many war stories end with hunger wreaking havoc on significant portions of a population. In Christian theology, the Biblical “four horses of the apocalypse,” believed by many in early modern Europe to…

Communal Harmony

Climate Change

A Species out of Context

This is the thirteenth of 18 installments in the Metastatic Modernity video series (see launch announcement), putting the meta-crisis in perspective as a cancerous disease afflicting humanity and the greater community of life…

Environmental Protection

Save Erra Matti Dibbalu

Destruction of Erra Matti Dibbalu (EMD), a unique geo-heritage feature of Visakhapatnam without Approvals under E R Act, CRZ and other relevant laws- Request for treating it as an environmental…

Counter Solutions

A Trophic Perspective on Fossil Fuels

Like the economy of nature, the human economy has a “trophic” structure. In nature, nutrition and energy flow from plants to herbivores to carnivores, with each of these comprising a trophic…

Bicycle And Transition Town

“Bicycle is one of the simplest solutions to some of the world’s most complex urban challenges." So what are the world’s most complex urban challenges? There are several areas where…

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

Netanyahu’s Toxic Temptations

Whatever our political affiliations might be, there is no denying that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been trying to navigate his way through the worst crisis that hit…

South Asia

Annihilate Caste

Dalit Memory and Dalit Identity

Abstract Introduction Remembered histories make up our inner lives, and that of our families and communities. Happy and joyful memories, dimly-remembered and unexplained events as children have a way of…

Life/Philosophy

Nature of New Capitalism and old Debates

Capitalism as a global system continues to evolve, continuously reshaping itself, accommodating with the new environment, aligning itself with different forms of regressive, right wing, reactionary, religious and authoritarian powers…

August Blues: In Remembrance

In August here in the East Coast we still have a lot of sunshine left. Though officially the summer is ending soon, we are still enjoying longer days and warm…

Arts/Literature

Four Poems by Mazin Qumsiyeh

I slept barely three hours last night so I worked, took a vigorous walk, and contemplated life. I force myself to watch the horrors of the genocide and destruction around…

Heaven is Only for Humans

If I were to flyWhere would I go? To the distant shoreswhere water sparklesblue and green, wavesfoam in tumultuous glee… Or, to wayward Wayanad,where plantations nurturedemerald dreams till hillsdeluged mud…

Book Review

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Adieu, Amma!

My Amma (Malayalam word for Mother) passed away on August 22, 2023 at 3.10 AM. It is always difficult  to deal with the passing of a parent, that too one’s…

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