Rains batter Karachi, 17 deaths
Monsoon rains wreaked havoc on the ill-maintained electricity and sewerage systems in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, leaving at least eight more people dead on Tuesday, officials and rescue services said.…
July 2019
Is China or the Green New Deal the Answer to Climate Change?
At its best, the earth was once likened to a spaceship that sails through the heavens with a crew working together for the common good. Thanks to climate change, this metaphor no…
David Bohm’s “darkness in the human brain.”
It was David Bohm's thesis that the ignorance of humanity is a matter of closedmindedness. He considered closedmindedness the "darkness in the human brain," a darkness closing access to the…
In Praise of Honey Bees
I attended a honeybee gathering recently at a wild place in rural Sebastopol. During my nearly 30 years of organic farming here, I have usually had honeybee hives on my…
Publishing Stolen Material: WikiLeaks, the DNC and Freedom of Speech
It may well be a finding of some implication should Julian Assange find his way into the beastly glory that is the US justice system. In its efforts to rope…
In Venezuela, the right to housing is made possible by the Revolution
In the Antímano neighbourhood of the capital district of Caracas, a very special block of flats has been built. Its inhabitants built it with their own hands, after in 2011,…
Patterns of Occupied Palestine: Part 2 of Uncountable
What do Shahed Amer al-Bayoumi, Abdel-Raouf Salha, Arafat Jaradat, Ayoub Asaleya, Mohammed Suleiman, Sawsan Ali Dawud Mansour, Mohammad H., Isma’il Muslem Hamad Abu Bteihan, Ala Ziad Abu ‘Aasi, Fadi al-Darbi,…
Is the Indian School Education system prepared for the future?
With the increasing pace of technological advances and globalisation rapidly taking over, India is all set to become the next hub for economic growth. Adding to this is a young…
Taming the activist within: Role of Indian society, media and education
Most of us are not stoics yet. Injustice caused to us evokes strong reactions and whenever we feel empowered enough to effect a change in our circumstances, we do. The…
They Are Kissing
After Dorianne Laux's "Kissing" They are kissing at gunpoint. They know they cannot be caught kissing. They are kissing as though the chinars never saw any bloodshed, only lipstick. Asifa…
Is Universal Health Coverage an opportunity to end AIDS and TB?
At the United Nations General Assembly in September 2019, a special United Nations High Level Meeting (UNHLM) will be held on Universal Health Coverage (UHC). 193 countries have promised to…
Sikhs In India To Be Under ‘Surveillance’All Over Again After The Tumultuous 1980s
Co-Written by Dr. P. S. Sahni & Shobha Aggarwal Courtesy https://www.greengazette.in The above Gazette Notification No. 2387 issued by the Union Ministry of Home Affairs on 22 July,…
Unwarranted Hysterectomies : A Growing Health Scandal
A study commissioned by the National Health Authority (NHA) of India has recently (Economic Times Report dated July 22, 2019) red-flagged claims made for hysterectomies conducted in private hospitals in…
Muslim Boy Who Said He Was Set Ablaze For Refusing To Chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’, Dies
A 15-year-old boy, who was allegedly set on fire by four men for refusing to chant 'Jai Shri Ram' in Uttar Pradesh, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday. Mohammad Khalid…
Greece – Suicide or Murder?
Pundits from the left, from the right and from the center cannot stop reporting about Greece’s misery. And rightly so. Because Greece, the vast majority of her people live in…
Unnao Story Is The Failure Of Indian system
Unnao story is the failure of Indian system and deep rooted corruption and nepotism inside it. The girl who was fighting a lonely battle over a year when she accused…
Alaska Governor Demolishes Climate Research
“The University of Alaska Fairbanks (“UAF”) is a hub for Arctic climate research, and a magnet for top scientists and international collaborations--- and it’s in trouble.” (Source: Sabrina Shankman, A…
Migrant detention centers in U.S.: A few accounts – chilling, horrific
Migrant detention centers in the U.S. are turning out to be an issue of debate. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence toured two detention facilities on the Texas border Friday, July 12,…
18 U.S. Marines, one sailor arrested for alleged crimes including human smuggling and drug-related offenses
Citing the U.S. Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) media reports including CNN Wires said on July 27, 2019 and on later dates: Three more Camp Pendleton-based service members — two…
Militarising Australia: Talisman Sabre and the US Military Build Up
Deemed the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations strategy, the military method is a US Marine special, still spanking new, featuring “the amphibious landing of troops on islands for seizure and capture…
With criticism crushed in the west, Israel can enjoy its impunity
Nazareth: Recent events have shone a spotlight not only on how Israel is intensifying its abuse of Palestinians under its rule, but the utterly depraved complicity of western governments in…
Psychology Behind Protest Responses
The Milgram experiment conducted by a Yale University psychologist of the same name, has perhaps gone on to become one of the most famous human behavioural experiments to have ever…
Birth of an era for the LGBTIQ community in India
Background LGBTIQ community has been one of the marginalized communities in the world history that has been suffering from disgrace and exclusionfor a long time. There are around 70 countries…
Book Review: Dynamics of Right-Wing Populism and its Implications for Indian Democracy
India after Modi: Populism and the Right by Ajay Gudavarthy; Delhi: Bloomsbury India; 2019; pages, 236; Rs 599 This book gives comprehensive and insightful understanding about the contemporary politics…
Azam Khan And The Trauma He Carries
Lateef baat bhi ahbab ko khatakti hai/ Na Jaane kaun sa kaanta meri zabaan mein hai ( Even a subtle expression disturbs my comrades/ I wonder what thorn I have…
A Note to Gautam Navlakha
‘Tu zinda hai tu zindagi ki jeet par yakeen kar...’ ◆◆◆◆ Whatever the Prosecutor State thinks, or, the ambivalent Judiciary rules, or, the compromised media makes out of your “crimes”, Gautam. For many…
Chavez remembered on his 65th birth anniversary
Nicolas Maduro, the President of Venezuela, recalled on July 28, 2019, the legacy of the leader of the Bolivarian Revolution, Hugo Chavez (1954-2013), on his 65th birth anniversary. "65 years…
U.S. resumes military aid to Pakistan days after Imran’s visit
The U.S. is reopening the military aid plug to Pakistan within a week of Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan meeting Donald Trump, the President of the U.S. The Pentagon is…
UAPA Amendment – Another nail on the coffin of Democracy !
“An individual's psychology is the birth place of Terrorism, rather than an institution. If, in the first place, an individual is stopped from attracting other individuals into terrorism by providing…
Space Lunacy
$trillion space games and false prophecies by billionaires while Rome burns History testifies to powerful rulers’ aspirations for the position of gods, including the Pharaohs and Roman Emperors such as…
A Brief History of the CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan
With the CIA’s Dirty War in South Sudan winding down its time to take a brief but comprehensive look at the origins and history of this most secret of Pax…
Could Donald Trump End the Afghan War?
Could Donald Trump end the Afghan war someday? I don’t know if such a possibility has been on your mind, but it’s certainly been on the mind of this retired…
Why Should Iran Be Cherished And Defended
As I pen this short essay, Iran is standing against the mightiest nation on earth. It is facing tremendous danger; of annihilation even, if the world does not wake up…
Bassam Shakaa: The Making of a Palestinian ‘Organic Intellectual’
It would be unfair to claim that Palestine has not produced great leaders. It has, and Bassam Shakaa, the former Mayor of Nablus, who passed away on July 22 at…
Is India Displaying Signs of Neo-Fascism?
During the two-day debate on the Motion of Thanks to the Indian President’s Address in the Parliament held on 24th June and 25th June 2019, Mahua Moitra, the first…
Growing up with (Jai) Siya Ram!
If you are born in Uttar Pradesh or for that matter, in any other northern state of India, acquaintance to Ram is similar to those of a new-born getting familiar…
Feminism – The real Human rights fight in India
Earlier to the mid-nineteenth century, the government influenced the powers delegated and was quite opaque and transgressing towards the rights of women. Only when the men began to speak up…
A tale of two positives attracting each other
I met the two of them at the Clinica Condesa Iztapalapa, in Mexico City, where I had gone to attend the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science (IAS 2019). Was…
Bangladesh: The Myth of Economic Growth
The government of Bangladesh under Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed keeps rattling the growth at 8-9% over the past few years, but the statistics do not tally with the global benchmarks, which…
The Sacrifice of Ishmael or Issac – A Debate
I am a Structural Engineer and I am NOT an Islamic Scholar. But sometimes I do get curious about certain practices among Muslims like Animal Sacrifice and Ritualistic Sacrifice and…
U.S. Wars for Israel
Western Zionist media and political establishments are up in arms accusing the Islamic Republic of Iran of “violating” the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), also known as the “Iran…
No ex gratia, no compassionate employment: A woman’s suffering whose peon husband went missing from the polling station
Sunaina Devi, an illiterate, has knocked all the available doors after her husband disappeared eight years ago but her struggle is yet to end. “My hopes diminished with his disappearance,”…
What If This Is the Hindu Rashtra?
The change from a constitutional republic to a majoritarian state need not entail a change either in the constitutional framework or in our national symbols. What do people mean when…
Nuclear Disarmament Should Be a Top 2020 Campaign Issue But Is Being Ignored
Two years ago on July 7, 2017, 122 nations approved the text of the Treaty on the Prohibition of NuclearWeapons (TPNW). The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) received…
An old-school approach to the new-school problem of water shortage: The story of Rajendra Singh
Google sustainability and the first few pages that pop up are all talking about cutting-edge technology in renewable energy, waste management, resource utilization and the likes. But what if sustainability…
Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle East – Book Review
(Dying to Forget – Oil, Power, Palestine, & the Foundations of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Irene L. Gendzier. Columbia University Press, New York, 2017.) Many books discuss the…
When will Ayanna Pressley realize that “the pain” she feels is the identical pain Palestinians feel?
When Michelle Alexander, a distinguished African-American scholar, wrote her now famous column in The New York Times, ‘Time to Break the Silence on Palestine’,her sympathetic words toward Palestinians received huge…
Holocaust Never Again but to Palestinians
Israel is a Zionist colonial project based on the destruction of Palestinian homes and cities, the ethnic cleansing of all Christian and Moslem goyim Palestinians, and the implanting of Zionist…
T.Nagi Reddy On Adivasis And Their Struggles- Recalling Srikakulam Girijana Peasant Revolt 50 Years Later
Legendary communist revolutionary leader Tarimela Nagi Reddy (TN) died on July 28, 1976, and he is remembered along with his comrade-in-arms, DV Rao (1917 June 1- 1984 July12), every year…
When Warriors Become Saints
As I sit on the small balcony on the top floor of an old house in the working class neighborhood of Alfama in Lisbon, Portugal, it is early evening, the…
Poisoned for Profit: Whether in the UK or India, We Are Not the Agrochemical Industry’s Guinea Pigs
Environmentalist Dr Rosemary Mason has just written to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Chemicals Regulation Division (HSE) in the…
Supreme Court Diluting The Landmark AP HC Judgement On Encounter Killings
The Human Rights Forum (HRF) is deeply disappointed and concerned with the July 18, 2019 order by a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court in the ‘encounters’ case. This is…
India Is Becoming A Police State
It looks like India is becoming a police state. With the passage of three amendments to existing laws the central government is impinging upon the powers delegated to the states,…
What Is ‘Good Governance’, And What Is Not
“Good governance is about the processes for making and implementing decisions. It’s not about making ‘correct’ decisions, but about the best possible process for making those decisions.” goodgovernance.org.au Good governance is the art…
Shifting Sands: Chinese encroachment in Central Asia and challenges to US supremacy in the Gulf
China and Russia are as much allies as they are rivals. A joint Tajik-Chinese military exercise in a Tajik region bordering on China’s troubled north-western region of Xinjiang suggests that…
A Minor Muslim Boy Lynched To Death In Delhi
In another case of mob lynching a minor Muslim boy was beaten to death by a mob in India's capital New Delhi’s Adarsh Nagar locality. Sahil, a 15 years old…
The 9% lie: industrial food and climate change
The Climate Emergency is finally getting the attention of the media and the U.S. (and world) body politic, as well as a growing number of politicians, activists and even U.S.…
The Root Cause of Human Population Growth
Homo sapiens is a creature of the earth. Understand that food is the tap root of life for the human species. There may be other factors that help sustain human…
When Boris Became PM
So Boris Johnson has become Britain's prime minister. He has been trying and scheming, scheming and trying including undermining David Cameron. A 'remainer' before, Johnson saw political capital in the…
World Bank asks Pakistan government: Reach out to opposition to pass legislation to implement IMF program
There are hardly two opinions that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Banks were implementing predatory economic policies of the West. The poor countries are now in the…
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