Ozone-Depleting CFCs Return
In August of 1987 the world came together after a panic-attack over ongoing depletion of atmospheric ozone, aka: The Ozone Hole. Subsequently, global agreements to stop ozone depletion became the…
May 2019
Al Quds
This is the Arabic name for the holiest of cities, the most sacred of cities, the most beautiful yet tragic of cities in the world. Jerusalem. I have known Jerusalem…
Algeria: Dr Kamel Eddine Fekhar dies fasting in Custody
Dr Kamel Eddine Fekhar dies fasting in Custody on May 28, Workers Party leader Louisa Hanoune and many other Activists under arrest by military, while Protest Continues https://twitter.com/khaleddrareni/status/1133701705428815873 Dr Kamel…
‘Judging’ the Drink of the Workers
Alcohol has many connotations amongst its consumers. Some see it as a medium of intoxication that heightens pleasure, others consume it to celebrate on festive occasions, and for many others…
Africa is now world’s largest free trade zone
Map of Trans-African Highways © Wikipedia Africa is now the world’s largest free trade zone, which bears big implications with expectation to boost regional and international trade. Media reports said:…
VENEZUELA: Westerners have lost the ability to reason! (PART 14)
False Humanitarian Aid has been used to promote violence in synchrony with violent and criminal "opposition" funded with dozens of millions of US dollars. Violence is incredibly common in Venezuela…
Key American Allies in the Middle East Are the Real Tyrants
American foreign policy can be so retro, not to mention absurd. Despite being bogged down in more military interventions than it can reasonably handle, the Trump team recently picked a…
Stripped of their Rights: Understanding the Gaza Strip
Many wonder why Israel continues to persecute the Palestinians in Gaza with such brutal repression. The answer is simple; Palestinians in Gaza pose a demographic and, indeed, an existential threat…
Clubs, Cartels and Bilderberg
“After decades of neoliberalism, we are at the mercy of a cluster of cartels who are lobbying politicians hard and using monopoly power to boost profits.” Joseph Stiglitz, The Price…
How Could Modi Come Back?
“It was never expected”, “How could this happen?”, “Are the EVMs rigged?” – these were some reactions of the students who participated in the discussion organized in NEHU on the…
Can Modi Sarkar allay the fears of Indians?
There is not a single human being out there who do not want to feel secure about his/her faith, race, ethnicity, culture, and other uniqueness. Indians are no different.…
Building counter cultural narrative is the lone alternative to Brahmanical hegemonic polity
The election verdict 2019 has send shock waves among the Ambedkarite-Bahujan activists all over the country particularly in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, where people expected huge gains for parties like…
Message from ET: Leave Me Alone!!
Here’s a thought: What if alien civilizations want to be left completely alone? Listed below are some of the unspoken presumptions underlying our nascent interstellar expansionism: We know what “universal…
Assange BULLETIN: The journalist can barely talk, moved to prison hospital
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder now imprisoned in the UK, has been moved to the hospital wing of the Belmarsh prison in the UK, prompting concerns about his health pending…
Fascist International? Note on EU Parliamentary Election Results
Fascism is always latent in a Republic, and makes its appeal in underhand ways. They incite you to believe that the survival of your family is dependent on the survival…
Lies in Politics: Boris Johnson, the Law and the European Union
An enduring memory of the 2016 Brexit campaign, so marked by the foppish-haired blusterer, Boris Johnson, was the claim that the European Union was hungrily drawing out from British coffers…
The Bilderbergers in Switzerland
The 67th Bilderberg Meeting will take place in Montreux, Switzerland from 30 May – 2 June 2019, where the about 130 invitees – so far confirmed – from 23 countries,…
Phantom of the Vedic Opera Returns
In an era where national elections have become a strange cross between an episode of Big Boss and twenty-twenty cricket, it has become quite difficult to take the end results…
How the BJP’s Political Narrative Filled the Holes in the NDA’s Actual Performance
The messaging around national security and last-mile schemes allowed Modi to present himself as the best short-term solution, regardless of his long-term vision. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) – and more…
Solving the Kashmir Problem
(India and Pakistan have now strong and stable governments. The leaders in both countries claim to be people friendly. There cannot be a better opportunity than this to solve the…
India News Roundup: Dalit lynched for plucking mangoes and his body hung in Panchayat office
In Singampalli village panchayat of Rangampeta mandal in East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday a Dalit was lynched for allegedly plucking mangoes from an orchard belonging to an…
Despite Assange’s ill-health, Swedish court rejects delay to hearing
A Swedish district court this week rejected an application by Julian Assange’s lawyers for a June 3 hearing into bogus sexual misconduct allegations to be delayed. The ruling was made…
Endless procedural abuses show Julian Assange case was never about law
It is astonishing how often one still hears well-informed, otherwise reasonable people say about Julian Assange: “But he ran away from Swedish rape charges by hiding in Ecuador’s embassy in…
Five Amnesty bosses resign following a review of the organization’s “toxic” work culture
Five members of Amnesty International’s leadership team are on their way out, following a damning report about what’s been described as the human-rights organization’s “toxic” culture. Amnesty said the senior…
Europe, Europe! The Dream Doesn’t Die
There was a time, long ago, when the term "Europe" was a vague definition for the lands north of the Mediterranean Sea, a vast regions of fog and swamps, inhabited…
Eyeing UK soccer clubs: Gulf buyers come with baggage
The bitter Gulf rift between Qatar and its Saudi and United Arab Emirates-led detractors could spill on to the pitches of English soccer. A flurry of reports suggest that the…
Facebook blocks page of Good Morning Kashmir, deletes hundreds of posts
Srinagar: Facebook on Wednesday blocked the official page of Srinagar based english daily 'Good Morning Kashmir' and deleted hundreds of its posts for not “following community standards”, shocking its editors…
An appeal and some unanswered questions
Journalists doing their job (practicing independent and real journalism, although perceived as anti-establishment) constantly and openly abused and issued rape and death threats via social media (https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ntdvs-ravish-kumar-says-death-threats-have-increased/article23989047.ece) A second-year medical…
Disaster for Democracy: How The Modi Wave Has Flooded India With Fascism
“In the west, we have labels,” commented journalist François Gautier on WION TV, during a panel about the results of India’s 2019 general election. “Right, left. Far-right, far-left. We keep…
Matryoshka (for Katya)
Your eyes are the mystery you have willed them to be. From a distance, they are a breeze Bearing the scent of sandalwood, of ginger, Salty sea lather roasting in…
Resurrecting the PLO is Palestine’s Best Response to the ‘Deal of the Century’
Palestinian groups, Fatah, Hamas and others should not confine themselves to simply rejecting the Trump Administration's so-called ‘Deal of the Century’. Instead, they should use their resistance to the new…
The Professor And The Poet: Reflections on Chomsky and Dylan
I have been pondering lately the significance of two elder visionaries who have exerted a lasting influence on me - Noam Chomsky (90) and Bob Dylan (77) - the former…
National Protest Against EVMs on May 30
The outcome of the recent Parliamentary elections has shocked the entire nation. We always believed that EVMs are hacked on a massive scale by the BJP and our belief is…
India News Roundup: Foreigner Stabbed in Meerut for not chanting “Ram Ram”
On Tuesday, at Parikrama Marg in the Govardhan area of Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, a man attacked and injured a foreign devotee, using a knife. The police admitted the…
Venezuela Resisting Venezuela Reconstructing: A photo-feature
Dateline: Venezuela, April 26-May 5, 2019. Background: This is my fifth visit. My first visit was in 2005. So I’m able to find the changes. The mainstream media (MSM) are…
Regenerating Gaia: Imagine a Peaceful Rebellion that Regrows Nature
Gaia – the living global ecological system – is collapsing and dying as human industrial growth overruns natural ecosystems and climate. Yet the biosphere can regenerate, as it has done…
Authoritarian Spirits: Congress, the Espionage Act and Punishing WikiLeaks
The time was 1917, and for anyone keen to impress us about any liberal feelings on the part of President Woodrow Wilson, the following should be said. Having deemed the…
How the U.S. Regime Uses Sanctions to Soften a Country Up for Invasion
The Wall Street Journal headlined on May 27th, “Iran’s Crude Buyers Jump Ship” and reported that “the country’s direct crude buyers have all but vanished, traders and executives in the…
ABC & Mainstream Media Lying By Omission Enabled Trumpist & Climate Criminal Australian Coalition Victory
The right-wing Liberal Party-National Party Coalition has just won the 2019 Australian Federal election, defeating an earnest Labor Party Opposition and gaining a bare majority in Parliament. The surprise defeat…
Bringing Up Morally Sound Children
From time immemorial, Kashmir has been enjoying recognition all across the world as ‘Resh Waer’ – Abode of Sages because the sages, savants, and saints from different parts of the…
‘Caste’ education in higher education
'That the caste system must be abolished if the Hindu society is to be reconstructed on the basis of equality, goes without saying. Untouchability has its roots in the caste…
Hate crimes against minorities continue in the aftermath of Modi’s landslide victory
While the entire country was seeing a video clip of Muslim youths being thrashed black and blue on the suspicion of carrying beef, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was addressing a…
Was Dr Payal Tadvi victim of a hate crime ?
While in truly technical terms Dr Payal Tadvi committed suicide on May 22nd 2019 in her hostel room in Mumbai, but for all practical reasons, I would call it a…
India News Roundup: Mother walks with dead son’s body in Uttar Pradesh
In Shahjahanpur of Uttar Pradesh a mother walked with her dead son's body home as the hospital denied ambulance. The deceased child had been admitted to the hospital after he…
Greta Thunberg says ’You lied to us’
“The first law of humanity is not to kill your children” (Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, EU chief climate scientist). Following a nuclear reduction agreement in the Eighties, workers of a US…
European Parliament elections 2019: The Far-Right surges
The far-Right surges in the European Parliament (EP) election while the big centre-right and centre-left blocs have lost their combined majority. However, the far-right fell short of the very significant…
The western media is key to Syria deceptions
The media are not a watchdog on power but the public relations arm of giant corporations pursuing their narrow interests in the Middle East By any reckoning, the claim made…
Trump’s Trade War was Born out of Class Struggle in America
David Dodwell writing in today’s (5/27/2019) South China Morning Post states that “Increasingly, the Trump administration’s trade war is not about tariffs but about keeping China in its place, regardless…
Saudi religious moderation: How real is it?
Meet Mohammed bin Abdul-Karim Al-Issa, the public face of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s version of moderate Islam. A 54-year old former justice minister, Mr. Al-Issa, one of a…
Sri Lanka: Sectarian Violence and the Higher Self
On 14 and 15 May 2019, revenge violence broke out in a number of towns in Sri Lanka against Muslim shopkeepers by Christians motivated by the Easter Sunday attacks on…
We The 4G
We the fourth generation of this country,solemnly expect, demand and aspire to see a post-election 2019 India, where: All our elected representatives irrespective of ruling or opposition, should resolve to…
NRC muddle: a vigilante student union and India’s borderlands
Society cannot escape human influences, wrote philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon. Student unions have played a significant role in shaping the contours of regional politics in Northeast India. The All Assam…
India News Roundup: Days After Elections Attack On Minorities Increase
Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's far right Hindutva party Bharatiya Janatha Party (BJP) secured a second term with brute majority violence against Muslims and Dalits have erupted in many…
Kandukuri, a great reformer, remembered on his death centenary
It was hundred years ago on May 27, in 1919, that Kandukuri Veeresalingam (16 April 1848 – 27 May 1919), widely regarded as Father of Renaissance Movement in Telugu…
The End of Theresa May
The vultures of the British conservative party have gathered, and the individual who seemed to thrive in failure, to gain momentum in defeat, has finally yielded. UK Prime Minister Theresa…
VENEZUELA: Westerners have lost the ability to reason! (PART 13)
We have here clear evidence proving Western MSM lie when they accuse Maduro of refusing humanitarian help and, consequently, being "responsible" of many deaths. Wrong, absolutely wrong. Liars! In a…
It Is Indifference Of The Israelis That Is Killing People
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek In the past, whenever I went to (or more precisely, ‘through’) Israel, it was for some antagonistic purpose: to write about the brutal suppression…
From BRI to Clash of Civilization: Beijing conference refutes Huntington
China hosted a two-day Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations (CDAC), to boost exchanges and mutual learning among Asian civilizations. The CDAC theme was "Exchanges and Mutual Learning among Asian…
Modi 2.0: India under ‘Charismatic Authoritarianism’?
The ultra-Right BJP-led National Democratic Alliance’s (NDA) resounding victory in the 17th Lok Sabha elections in India has surprised many, even within the NDA alliance because of the unexpected…
Understanding the rise of the ‘Modi juggernaut’-2.0 and its ramifications on the India’s Muslim Masses
After the landslide and historic victory of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP in 2019 parliamentary polls, political pundits and scholars have critically reflected on and wrote several articles…
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