Hundred Thousand Farmers Lay Siege To Indian Parliament
Around 100,000 farmers from across the country converged and marched to the parliament of India in New Delhi demanding a special session to discuss their problems. They were stopped near…
November 2018
A World Federation
“With law shall our land be built up, but with lawlessness laid waste.” Njal’s Saga, Iceland, c 1270 AD The present United Nations Charter After the unspeakable horrors of…
Meat and Consequences: More Bad News for Climate Change
Thanksgiving is quite a U.S. holiday. In one day, we manage to eat and enjoy 44 million turkeys, twice the number consumed at Christmas. Yes, vegetarians may live longer and…
Mutual Decline: The Failings of Student Evaluations
That time of the year. Student evaluations are being gathered by the data crunchers. Participation rates are being noted. Attitudes and responses are mapped. The vulnerable, insecure instructor, fearing an…
Children – Civilization’s Future, Victims of Western Brutality
The United Nations Universal Children's Day – 20 November – has come and gone – and nothing has changed. No action that would now protect children any more than…
The Long, Brutal U.S. War on Children in the Middle East
On November 28, sixty-three U.S. Senators voted in favor of holding a floor debate on a resolution calling for an end to direct U.S. Armed Forces involvement in the…
Guardian escalates its vilification of Julian Assange
It is welcome that finally there has been a little pushback, including from leading journalists, to the Guardian’s long-running vilification of Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. Reporter Luke Harding’s…
Making Native Americans Strangers in Their Own Land
Amid the barrage of racist, anti-immigrant, and other attacks launched by President Trump and his administration in recent months, a series of little noted steps have threatened Native American land rights and…
Can You Pass The Egypt Quiz?
When widespread demonstrations forced Egypt’s long-time dictator, Hosni Mubarak, to resign as president in February 2011, it appeared as if this important Arab state was destined for dramatic, positive change.…
US airstrikes kill at least 30 civilians in Afghanistan
Local officials and residents have confirmed that US airstrikes on Tuesday night killed at least 30 civilians in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand Province. These tragic deaths are the latest war crime…
The European Strategic Dilemma – Nato-in or Nato-out
A most vital issue far exceeding Brexit in importance – the rumbustious bear NATO, has surfaced. It is world’s most unwanted powder keg. No enlightened EU intellectual, if genuinely…
Low Oil Prices: An Indication of Major Problems Ahead?
Many people, including most Peak Oilers, expect that oil prices will rise endlessly. They expect rising oil prices because, over time, companies find it necessary to access more difficult-to-extract oil.…
Eyes Without The Prize: Stripping Aung San Suu Kyi’s Awards
It is impossible to see peace prize or freedom awards as anything other than fragments of an industry. In time, ideals become marketable and matters of commodity. Those who go…
Homelessness, corporate welfare and priorities
The homelessness issue has been a source of controversy at the local, state and national levels for some time now. There has been some limited progress, but this problem has…
Argentina and France –Opponents of IMF versus Yellow Vests – Where is the Correlation?
What do Argentinian protesters have in common with French protesters? – They both strongly dislike their governments, and their leaders (sic). The protests in Argentina against the upcoming G20 meeting…
Bearing Witness
I know all about bearing witness. I started doing it when I was five when I tried to help Hiroshima Maidens hosted and put up by my Quaker Meeting…
#MeToo-The Widening Discourse
The # MeToo movement may have started out in the West but in the true spirit of ‘ sisterhood’ it has managed to draw in women set apart at least…
Kashmir’s Political Chameleons!
(Many of Kashmir’s politicians have been acting like chameleons, changing their ideologies and convictions like the colours of these lizards) During the last seventy years Kashmir has given birth to…
Netanyahu’s Predicament: The Era of Easy Wars is over
When Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered his army to carry out a limited operation in the besieged Gaza Strip on November 12, he certainly did not anticipate that his military…
Open Letter to Senator Bernie Sanders
On Wednesday, November 28, 2018, over 100 U.S. scholars, intellectuals, and activists published the open letter to Senator Bernie Sanders below and invited others to add their names to it.…
Saudi diplomatic offensive seeks to put Khashoggi behind it and thwart Qatar
As Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman tours friendly Arab nations in advance of the Group of 20 (G-20) industrialized nations summit in Argentina, Saudi diplomacy aims to achieve two…
Andre Vltchek interviewed by Alessandro Bianchi
L’Antidiplomatico Interview AB: Let's start from today's crisis in the Sea of Azov. The European Union and NATO have given full support to Ukraine after the violation of Russian…
How Much Negative Carbon Emissions, Negative Population Growth & Negative Economic Growth Is Needed To Save Planet?
Several recent reports collectively endorsed by thousands of expert scientists have warned the world that time is running out to save Humanity and the Biosphere from further catastrophic climate change…
Our Man in Riyadh: Abizaid of Arabia
What does President Trump’s recent nomination of retired Army General John Abizaid to become the next U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia signify? Next to nothing -- and arguably quite a lot. Abizaid’s…
Steve Bannon at Oxford
Steve Bannon. The Oxford Union. A university that has been the breeding, sculpting and minting ground for British prime ministers for centuries and the Establishment. Here, Bannon, strategist of the…
How BJP government is turning what exactly Ambedkar had warned about
BJP government has been destroying each and every institutions of this union brick by brick ever since they entered into the office. Cultural institutions and Educational institutions such as Pune…
Kashmir Needs Solution not Suppression
Co-Written by Syed Mujtaba & Mirza jahanzeb Since 1989, the People of Jammu and Kashmir were killed, tortured, humiliated, and disappeared. Thousands of the people were killed due to cycle…
Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism
Neoliberalism as economic theory was always an absurdity. It had as much validity as past ruling ideologies such as the divine right of kings and fascism’s belief in the Übermensch. None of its vaunted…
US military, border police attack asylum seekers at US-Mexico border
A combined force of the US military and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pointed assault rifles and fired tear gas, rubber bullets and flash bang grenades at impoverished workers and…
The Creation Code: Towards an Understanding of Dialectic
There is a code that underlies all creation. It is not something hidden from us, but rather, like the purloined letter, something we do not notice because it is too…
To Build a Fire in the Heart of Our Country
But for most of us, the movement was a life-giving force. To join a hundred thousand others in marches and rallies, to know that even if you felt helpless against…
Human Delusion and Our Destruction of the Biosphere: We Aren’t Even Trying!
Unfortunately, only the rarest individual has the capacity to see through the elite-promulgated delusion that generated this benign expression and its twin notions that 1.5 degrees celsius (above the preindustrial…
Egyptian Kangaroo Courts on death sentences spree
An Egyptian Kangaroo Court Sunday (Nov. 25, 2018) confirmed the penalty after being convicted in the death of Hisham Barakat, who was killed in a car bombing in eastern Cairo…
Tyranny against Humanity: Human Rights and Global Politics
The tyranny of human rights violations - planned and alleged goes unabated across the globe. Late American historian Howard Zinn must have sensed the human cries against the Nature and…
An addendum for Professor Bruce Lerro
Thanks to Professor Bruce Lerro for his ideas- and questions-filled article, “Facing the music: religion, nationalism and sports have enchanted the working class; socialism hasn’t”, posted in e-journal Countercurrents on…
V P Singh : The man who gave the biggest jolt to politics of dominance
At the time when we are facing difficult political situation and even when the people of the country seems to have made up their mind to defeat the sectarian communal…
Orwellian climate newspeak
In so far as it may have been assumed that the growing manifestations of global warming through extreme weather events will cause people to realize the reality and the implications…
US Trade War With China: Desperate Move To Save Western Empire
Most of those who have had a chance to witness Chinese internationalist mega-projects, clearly understand that the West is near to collapsing; it will never be able to compete…
Nuclear energy; Saudi Arabia’s coming Washington battle
When Saudi General Khalid bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz went shopping in the late 1980s for Chinese medium-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear, chemical or biological warheads he made no…
Dissecting (and Revealing the Truth in) Trump’s Cold-Blooded Statement on Murder of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
“America First!” That’s how Donald Trump began and ended his November 20 statement addressing Saudi Arabia’s gruesome murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 2.…
Iran opens 32nd International Islamic Unity Conference with a harsh attack on U.S.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday (Nov 24) called for Muslim unity and resistance against what he called "hostile" policies of the United States and Israel. "Muslims have no way…
Cuba’s First Military Doctors (Part 2)
[The first part 1 of this article addressed the need for Cuba's participation in conflicts in Zaire, the Congo and Guinea-Bissau during the 1960s to remain concealed for over three…
Coming Up Against Yellow Vests: Emmanuel Macron’s Fuel Problem
Governments and ruling regimes tend to face revolution in the face of harsh hikes in prices. Margaret Thatcher’s rule in Britain was rocked by the poll tax. In France, the…
Prosecution of Julian Assange, America’s Betrayal of Its Own Ideals
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remains arbitrarily detained in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. As he is in a critical situation under a special protocol imposing prison-like surveillance, news emerged that…
Twilight of the American Century
Twilight of the American Century. Andrew J. Bacevich. University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2018. The histories of empires and the histories of war are generally written by…
Paid leave for domestic violence survivors can help break the cycle of violence against women
To mark the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) and 16 Days of Activism (25 November to 10 December), public sector unions launched a campaign to demand paid…
Sridhar Acharyulu takes on CIC just before his retirement
"Are we under oath to help in the concealment of details of those who thrive on fraud despite the knowledge that 3 lakh farmers committed suicide across the country as…
Manoranjan Byapari – A Rickshawpuller who has the ‘ will to live’
There are many dalit writers who have tried to expose oppression through their literary works. Some of them had to change their names so that their caste could not…
From A Human Being To Being Human(e)
In between lies man's perennial striving Out of mundane struggles of hell To become the total man -- From a human being to being human(e) That unlocks the door to…
India has to decide whether to chose Constitution or Dharm Sansad
The language of political discourse is the biggest casualty after the Sangh Parivar inspired government came power in India. The C grade rhetoric and to convert everything into a street…
Sanctity and Supremacy of the Constitution alone can protect India
They call it 'dharm-sansad' but why should we need it when we have the 'sansad' elected by the people. But dharmsansad actually is the brahmanical monopoly over us. It is…
French president bans fuel tax protest in Paris as strikes expand
As the government of French President Emanuel Macron moved to ban protests against its fuel tax increase, strikes and demonstrations in support of the protest movement spread across France yesterday.…
Extinction Rebellion: From the UK to Ghana and the US, Climate Activists Take Civil Disobedience World-Wide
More than 100 people were arrested during a week of action across the UK as protesters demanded the government treat the threats posed by climate change as a crisis and take drastic…
Flaws as strengths
Every person has some flaws. My two major ones, which I remember from when I was a toddler, are that I am sanctimonious and stubborn. ... I laugh at myself…
Energy – Water Nexus: The Escalating Threat In The Context Of High GDP Growth Paradigm
Abstract: In the context of growing gap between the demand and the availability of energy and fresh water in India, the close relationship between the usage of energy and water…
Chinese consulate attack puts Pakistan between a rock and a hard place
Two attacks in Pakistan, including a brazen assault on the Chinese consulate in Karachi, are likely to complicate prime minister Imran Khan’s efforts to renegotiate China’s massive, controversial Belt and…
Is Saudi Arabia Building a Nuclear Weapons Program?
David Sanger and William Broad reported in The New York Times [1] on Thursday that before Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was implicated in the killing of Jamal…
When Reason Sleeps
‘El sueno de la razon produce monstruos’ (The sleep of reason produces monsters) - Francisco Goya, the famous Spanish artist, in his note to his etchings called `Los Caprichos’, made …
Go ahead, rename India itself
Can you change the past by changing the present? Would Hinduising Faizabad, Allahabad, Ahmedabad, Aurangabad, Hyderabad and so many other great Indian cities help wipe out the country’s rich Islamic…
At least 85,000 child deaths in Yemen highlight Saudi-US war crimes
A new estimate by the aid agency Save the Children that 85,000 children have died of hunger since in Yemen since Saudi Arabia’s US-backed bombings of the country began in…
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