Danny Sjursen, On Leaving the U.S. Army
“Patriotism, in the trenches, was too remote a sentiment, and at once rejected as fit only for civilians, or prisoners.” -- Robert Graves, Goodbye To All That(1929). I’m one of the lucky…
March 2019
A-SAT Test: A Moment to Rethink Our Developmental Priorities
In Prime Minister Narendra Modi's address to the country on the successful test of Anti-Satellite Missile (A-SAT), he said, “There can be no greater moment of pride for every Hindustani.”…
Parliament elections, Agrarian distress, and Emerging Farmers politics – a view from the grassroots.
The morning of freedom August 1947 This daybreak, pockmarked- This morning, night-bitten. Surely, this is not the morning we’d longed for, in whose eager quest, all comrades had set out,…
Imperialism is revealing its character — increasing parasitism: John Smith on imperialism
John Smith, former oil rig worker, bus driver, telecommunications engineer, longtime activist in the anti-war and Latin American solidarity movements, and author of Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation,…
Venezuela Roundup – 11
800% increase of US surveillance on Venezuela Venezuelan electricity system sabotaged again We will defeat aggressions: Maduro Hundreds march in Washington, DC, to protest US interference in Venezuela Venezuelans march…
Defeat Reactionary Politics – UCCRI-ML
In the current elections to the Lok Sabha and the Andhra Pradesh Assembly Defeat the ruling coalition at the Centre, the BJP-led NDA, that is pro-American super power, and pro-landlord…
A Collector’s Delight: 21 Films by K.P. Sasi
K.P Sasi is one of the unsung heroes of Indian parallel cinema movement. His repertoire of films are amazing. From feature films , music videos to a plethora of documentaries…
Floods In Iran And Climate Change
According to a recent United Nations report, extreme weather events displaced 2 million people during 2018. While no single event can be unambiguously attributed to anthropogenic climate change, scientists believe…
Under a greenhouse atmosphere
As carbon emissions have been growing at an accelerated rate (Figure 1) and new power plants are under construction (Figure 2) the race to destroy species and civilization is heading…
Shiv Inder Singh gets Jagjit Singh Anand Award
Punjabi journalist Shiv Inder Singh, who was sacked as a field reporter by a Canada-based prominent South Asian radio station for being critical of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has…
Election Commission And The Media
Seeing the media sensitivity towards current electoral trends, the Election Commission of India (ECI), a constitutional body responsible for conducting elections, has come up with the extra precautionary measures to…
And now, it’s Lohia’s turn!
23rd March is Dr. Rammanohar Lohia's birthday. But it is said that he did not want people to celebrate the day because it was on this day that the revolutionaries…
Imperialism’s threats overwhelm situation: Venezuela ROUNDUP – 10
“Russians will pay a price”: threatens U.S. Venezuela slams U.S. threats against Russia, reminds of Pentagon military activity Focus on actual activities: Venezuela tells U.S. “Do the right thing”, Venezuelan…
The withdrawal of a political film highlights India’s problematic ban culture
India's democratic values can’t sustain a simple cinema test, the episode draws attention to a wide issue of India's discriminatory practices against artists and professional minorities. Bhobishyoter Bhoot (Ghost of…
Free Dreams
This morning light is not enough For me to wake up My sleep is not yet over Do not disturb my dreams For they are more beautiful Than your reality…
Jab We Lynched: From Rioters Democratic Inc.
#NaseeruddinShah #Democracy #Lynch #Riots #Riot-Bhais #JNU #Islam #Spain #Boss #GotoPakistan #Allizzwell [ An attempt to know, if people of all hues and garden variety are one and the…
Modi government’s surgical strike on NREGA workers’ wages continues
The wage rates for NREGA workers for 2019-20, notified yesterday, have again exposed central government’s lack of commitment for NREGA workers’ rights. The hike ranges from a meagre Re 1…
Trump Threatens War if Russia Protects Venezuela
On March 27th, U.S. President Donald Trump said that “Russia has to get out” of Venezuela, and that “All options are on the table” if Russia refuses to withdraw from…
Our Precious Land
Today, March 30th, is the anniversary of two ominous events that occurred on our land and to our people. The first anniversary happened 43 years ago to the day. That…
Angles of Tolerance: Yusuf Islam in Christchurch
Let’s not be too churlish about this; but then again, let us not be ignorant. The singer once known as Cat Stevens (in pre-conversion state), and known as Yusuf Islam…
Honor Among Thieves?
When Michael Cohen, fixer for Donald Trump, payoff-artist and jailbird-to-be, who starts 3-year prison sentence on May 6, branded his former boss a liar and cheat who ran for president…
Muslims getting Visible at Punjab’s Landscape
Punjab faced the full fury of the communal violence in 1947 during the Partition of India. The state witnessed an extremely turbulent and traumatic situation in the run up to…
Article 35 A: A Rejoinder To Arun Jaitley
Through a written blog followed by his tweet, Union Finance Minster Mr. Arun Jailey has yet again stirred the issue of Article 35A due to be adjudicated by Supreme court…
Kashmiris perhaps will never settle for anything that conveys them a sense of defeat
Kashmir, once christened as paradise on earth is now a crown of militarization from last three decades where Kashmiris are paralyzed in conflict molded battleground resulting in generations growing up…
Elections, CPM and BLF in Telangana : A Review
The CPI-M in Telangana state (TS) had taken two major initiatives in recent past. It took initiative to form T-MASS, and later a BLF to fight elections. The Secretary of…
Militarisation of Space: CNDP Statement on the ASAT Test
The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP) takes serious note of the dramatic declaration of the Indian Prime Minister, on March 27, early afternoon, claiming, in a nationally televised…
Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Education and Adore of the World
Introduction Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was a pupil of Edmund Husserl (1859– 1938), Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), and Karl Jaspers (1883–1969), three significant, prominent, 20th century German philosophers whose work grounded and…
Growing Old
For decades, I am observing my mother growing old. 3 memories, 3 falls stay in my mind. The first fall was on the streets of Kolkata and that made her…
Venezuela Roundup – 9
Moscow responds to U.S. threat Sniper rifle took out hydroelectric plant Fake photos of Venezuelan health situation: AFP Guaido announces “tactical action” Russia has made a strong response to the…
VENEZUELA: Westerners have lost the ability to reason! (PART 4)
As if this Machiavellian recipe to commit crimes in total impunity hadn't been used and reused over and over again, and while the victim are always the ones being blamed…
The Logic of Annexation: Israel and the Golan Heights
Any measure of annexation is based on the extension of a military’s boots. Diplomats tend to be silenced before the noise of tanks, weaponry and garrisons. Countries may claim to…
Can We Afford The Price of Ignorance?
Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends…
United Nations Must Recognize Tamil’s Right To Self-Determination
Tamils demand the Right to Self-Determination as Tamils in Sri Lanka qualify as a People and Nation When the United Nations was created after World War II, one of the…
A manifesto for ‘ non- voters’ ….?
A child miseducated is a child lost - John F Kennedy While all the mainstream parties are busy issuing statements of promises to various sections of society, there is little…
Imperialist intervention heightens tension: Venezuela Roundup – 8
U.S. threatens Russia: Must get out of Venezuela, all options open U.S. to assess Russian “influence” in Venezuela: House passes three bills Interventionists’ diplomatic debacle: Germany won’t recognize Guaido’s envoy…
Thunberg’s Problem. A Problem Without Any solution?
For the last two or three months, I have been following the news on the school strike movement of teenagers, the purpose of which is to urge the grown-ups, particularly…
Naming RaGa’s candidacy in Wayanad might end as a costly gamble
It was on last Saturday the state leadership of the Congress party made a statement taking the entire population and party workers on a high. The announcement that the Indian…
War, Peace and Presidential Candidates
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J S Davies Forty-five years after Congress passed the War Powers Act in the wake of the Vietnam War, it has finally used it…
Welcome to hell: The Peruvian mining city of La Rinconada
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek No one can agree how high above the sea level that La Rinconada really lies at: 5,300 meters or 5,200 meters?On the access road, a…
On My Visit to New Zealand: Can Christchurch Heal Our Collective Wounds?
I visited the city of Christchurch on May 23, 2018, as part of a larger speaking tour in New Zealand that also took me to Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton and Dunedin.…
Michael Jackson, Convenient Freak
The comedian Dave Chappelle put it like this: why were accusations of inappropriate conduct directed at Michael Jackson always so superbly timed? “Listen Michael,” goes Chappelle’s mock white executive voice,…
Trump’s Foreign Policy: Do Whatever Netanyahu & Prince Salman Want
Now that Donald Trump, like Barack Obama before him, has failed to remove Syria’s Bashar al-Assad by means of American training of, and supply of weapons to, ‘rebels’ (almost all…
Four Decades of Radical Radio: an Interview With WPKN’s Scott Harris
Scott Harris has been hosting a show at WPKN, Bridgeport’s independent, alternative radio station, for a remarkable 42 years. He began in 1977 with a music show which he transformed…
The “Dream Merchants” of Kashmir!
(Most of the political leaders in Kashmir have been selling “Dreams” to the people that ultimately get interpreted in their own personal well-being leaving the people high and dry!) The…
Yemen: An Anniversary Lost in the Sands of War
26 March 2019 marked the 4th anniversary of thee start of the Saudi Arabia-led armed intervention into Yemen. The purpose of the war has been lost in the sands of…
Dispossessed workers, farmers, small producers still await their day of liberation: John Smith on imperialism
Today, it’s impossible to ignore the question of imperialism in any discussion concerning people as imperialism is distorting and destroying all aspects and areas of life. Ignoring the question of…
Surrey Gurdwara holds congregation for three Sikh men convicted for merely keeping “seditious” literature in India
A huge congregation was held at the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in Surrey this past Sunday, March 24 to show solidarity with three Sikh men who were recently convicted in…
We Need An Ecological Revolution
I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “We Need An Ecological Revolution”. The book can be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link: http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/We-need-an-ecological-revolution-John-Scales-Avery.pdf…
A Privileged Education: The US College Admissions Scandal
The oldest idea of history; the perennial problem of station: education. Get the child as far as possible so that he or she can be propelled, as if from a…
Mueller’s Record of Framing Innocent People to Protect the Guilty
(NOTE: This article — prior to its current updates — was offered as an exclusive to each mainstream and other pro-U.S.-Government ‘news’-media, and none even replied; so, it now is…
Ukraine’s Autocephaly: First Results and Possible Influence on Orthodox World
Nearly three months ago, on January 6, Patriarch Bartholomew signed the Tomos of Autoceplahy for the Ukrainian Orthodoxy. Though the whole process of granting autocephaly took less than a year…
17 Facts Exposing the Pulwama Terror Attack & the Balakot Surgical Strike
The nation has stood as one in condemning the dastardly suicide terror attack carried out by the Pakistan based Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) on the CRPF Bus that has led to the…
New attack on Venezuela’s national electric system: Roundup – 7
New attack on Venezuela’s national electric system Venezuela presents evidence of opposition paramilitary plot Over $30 billion of Venezuela’s assets stolen by US Lavrov to US: Your Venezuelan coup violates…
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court
Events just fly by in the ever-accelerating rush of Trump Time, so it’s easy enough to miss important ones in the chaos. Paul Manafort is sentenced twice and indicted a third time!…
Three lessons for the left from the Mueller inquiry
Here are three important lessons for the progressive left to consider now that it is clear the inquiry by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russiagate is never going to uncover…
La Rinconada – The Devil’s Paradise
La Rinconada, 5,000 to 5,400m above sea level, corrugated iron shacks, glued to the hills of the surrounding mountains, home to some 50,000 to 70,000 mining inhabitants and competing mafia…
Trump’s Golan green light paves way to Israel’s annexation of West Bank
Nazareth: When President Donald Trump moved the US embassy to occupied Jerusalem last year, effectively sabotaging any hope of establishing a viable Palestinian state, he tore up the international…
U.S. Backs Israel’s Annexation of Golan Heights
U.S. Backs Israel’s Annexation of Golan Heights: “Blessing” More Genocidal Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and a Mafia-Style Message to Russia On March 21, Trump declared “it is time” for the…
Hope for Ukrainians, at Last
Finally, it appears that there is realistic hope for an end to the brutal, far-right, regime that U.S. President Barack Obama, through his chief agent on Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, had…
Why Activists Fail
Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues being contested has…
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