Major cities of the world could submerge within 30 years due to Global Warming
Major cities of the world are at risk of being submerged under rising sea levels over the next 30 years. This could put hundreds of millions of people at…
October 2019
Empire of the Overlord
Children in unison rise Crying for the ultimate reprise. Bus fares hike Water jets strike Murderers walk free The land is no longer safe Asperger bound The world round Children…
The relevance of Gandhi and Jamia’s Stalwarts: ‘Inclusive Vision’ in the Current Political Scenario
It is happy moment for all of us that Jamia Millia Islamic, a ‘lusty child’ of the non-cooperation and the Khilafat movement, is going to soon complete its 100 years…
How the U.S. Regime ‘Justifies’ the Theft of Syria’s Oil
Only starting on 28 October 2019 — after seven years of the U.S. and its allies stealing Syria’s oil — did U.S. ‘news’-media start to apply the word “theft” or…
Chile and Her History of Western Interference
Chile is experiencing the largest and most serious political crisis and public unrest throughout Santiago and the country’s major cities, since the return to ‘democracy’ in 1990. A weeklong of…
RCEP: Leave Man Ki Baat, Could You Please Listen to This
There is a saying ‘Vyaparam droha chintanam’. I don’t know whether it is a saying or something that was brought into being by common people coming face to face with…
Gopal Kanda And Other Criminal Politicians
It is a fact that politics and crime are inseparable particularly in India. Soutik Biswas argues that criminals get elected not only because many voters are ill-informed, but also for…
Hariri resigns, protesters celebrate, and uncertainty persists in Lebanon
Following an unprecedented popular revolt for 13 days over decades of political corruption and economic turmoil in Lebanon, Prime Minister Saad Hariri has resigned on Tuesday. After the announcement, the…
Boris Johnson Against Parliament
A pretty odd thing, this. The prime minister of Britain, supposedly of the conservative creed, making an almost violent dash against both parliament and the courts of law. While his…
Why I Weep While I Work
Or What It Means to Experience America’s Wars From a Computer Screen Away Think back to the last time you cried at work. Did the tears come after your boss…
Our Vanishing World: Insects
About 12,000 years ago, late stone age humans precipitated the neolithic (agricultural) revolution that marked the start of the steady rise to civilization. Coincidentally, this occurred at the same time…
Syria – The Launch of a Constitutional Committee – a Sign of Hope for Syrian People
Transcript of a PressTV Interview – Following a live press Conference by the Foreign Ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey at the UN Geneva, Switzerland Background GENEVA, Oct. 28 (Xinhua)…
Piketty Analysis Of Trumpism – Inequality & Populist Nativists Versus High Education Globalists
Economist Thomas Piketty has analyzed the rise of inequality-driven Trumpist populism and increasing support by ignorant and xenophobic poor people for the Right that serves the interests of the wealthy…
Beirut Is Burning: Rebellion Against The Elites Has Commenced
Tires are burning, smoke is rising towards the sky. It is October, the 18th day of the month, the capital city of Lebanon, in the past known as the…
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinian Christians that nobody is talking about
Palestine’s Christian population is dwindling at an alarming rate. The world’s most ancient Christian community is moving elsewhere. And the reason for this is Israel. Christian leaders from Palestine and…
Something Wicked This Way Comes…And It’s Not Halloween
October: its pumpkin spice lattes, its sweater weather, and its spooky Halloween. For a day, or even days if you count “Halloweekend” (or more appropriately “Halloweekends”), you can pretend to…
How Al-Baghdadi was not the Equivalent of Osama Bin Laden?
Although President Trump claimed in his address to the American public after the killing of al-Baghdadi that he was a “bigger terrorist” than Osama bin Laden, fact of the matter…
Palestine: Liberation Not Capitulation
In all the years that I have been actively involved in our struggle for liberation and justice I have never reached such a low point than in the last few…
Rep. Ro Khanna’s tweet rejecting Hindutva splits the Indian American community
US Congressman Ro Khanna’s tweet rejecting Hindutva echoed at the Cupertino Town Hall meeting called by the congressman earlier this month. Chinmoy Roy, a Khanna supporter who attended the Oct.…
After Kashmir Is Indian Government Ready To Go Back On Promise To Nagaland?
by Sandeep Pandey and Meera Sanghamitra The Nagas claim that their leader Phizo never signed any instrument of accession with India like the other 562 princely states and Nagaland or…
Babri Masjid/Ramjanmabhumi: Will Democracy Survive or Mobocracy Thrive?
The nation is bracing for the judgement in the most controversial issue of India, the Ramjanambhumi/Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, Faizabad, UP case where Muslims are waiting with bated breath and Hindus…
Far Right EU MPs Visit Kashmir
The 27-member delegation of European Parliament members visited the troubled region of Jammu and Kashmir. It's the first foreign delegation allowed to visit Kashmir after abrogation of Article 370 on…
Progressives secure majority in the chambers of congress in Bolivia
The Movement to Socialism (MAS), the progressives, has secured a majority presence in the Senate and Deputy Chamber of Bolivia, Vice President of the country Álvaro García Linera said Monday. During a presentation explaining the results of…
Evo Morales wins in Bolivia, the OAS and U.S. lose
The irreversible victory of Evo Morales in Bolivia’s recent elections, (with 46.64% of the vote vs. 36.83% for Carlos Mesa), has shed light on several aspects of the role of…
Agrochemical Apocalypse: Interview with Environmental Campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason
The renowned author and whistleblower Evaggelos Vallianatos describes British environmentalist and campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason as a “defender of the natural world and public health.” I first came across her work…
Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
Yesterday morning, President Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr Al- Baghdadi and three of his children. President Trump said Al-Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS, was fleeing U.S. military forces,…
Al-Baghdadi’s Successors and Islamic State’s Affiliates
In the event of the death of the Islamic State’s self-styled caliph, Amaq, a news agency affiliated with the Islamic State, reported on 7 August 2019 that the terrorist organization’s…
Israel’s new moves to airbrush the occupation
Nazareth: The United Nations’ independent expert on human rights in the Palestinian territories issued a damning verdict last week on what he termed “the longest belligerent occupation in the modern…
Popular Protest: How effective is it?
If there is one theme, beyond corruption and a host of economic and social grievances, that have driven protests -- large and small, local, sectoral and national – across the…
Dirty Hands
“You should therefore know that there are two ways to fight: one while abiding by the rules, the other by using force. The first approach is unique to Man; the…
History as Storytelling
No commentator even asked why the home minister—a graduate in bio-chemistry who has also worked as a stockbroker and in co-operative banks [Sheela Bhatt, "What Amit Shah's fall really means", July…
Study of Gender,Caste and Religion,their intersection and interconnection in Aravind Malagatti’s “GOVERNMENT BRAHMANA”
INTRODUCTION " कथा सुनो रे लोगों एक व्यथा सुनो रे लोगों हम मजदूर की करून कहानी आओ करीब से जानो खाने को खाना नही पिने को पानी नही पेहेनेको कपडा…
Ground zero: Frontline champions lead the fight to #endTB as global meet opens in India
It was indeed a humbling experience for me to interact with a few frontline healthcare workers who are courageously fighting the #endTB battle on the ground in Hyderabad, India (the…
Progressive Cristina Fernandez wins presidency in Argentina
In a dramatic comeback, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, progressive and one of Argentina’s most popular presidents during her two terms in 2007-2015, has been voted back into office as vice…
Plurinationalism, Pancasila – and the pettiness of Hindu Nationalism
The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, seems to be in some sort of a pickle, at the time of writing, in the process of seeking a fourth term of presidency.…
Dushyant Chautala Factor in Haryana Politics
Frank Hebert rightly said, “Absolute power attracts the corruptible.” The fractured assembly election 2019 result in Haryana shows that the foundation of collapse in the BJP turf has been laid…
Whipping Nationalism: Media ends up a ‘lapdog than a watchdog’
Inducing Flag Waving Patriotism, Indian Media Stands Unmasked and Exposed Since Independence, the Indian media has been a carrier of flag-waving patriotism. Anything that infringed New Delhi’s project of ‘nation-building’…
Report From Iran: The Country Moves Onward
Iran is a country that maintains something of the fascination it had in ancient times, when it was both fabulous and remote. In our times, it remained somewhat remote, but…
Pain
Pain to be documented for the sake of civilization. Pain, language of the unspoken, censored, plugged and precluded. Pain of mothers daughters and lovers, of sons, fathers and admirers. Pain…
What the Dismantling of the Berlin Wall Means 30 Years Later
Some anniversaries are less about the past than the future. So it should be with November 9, 1989. In case you’ve long forgotten, that was the day when East and…
Moscow once again appears on the African continent with the first Russia-Africa summit
The first ever two-day Russia-Africa economic summit ended Thursday in the resort city Sochi, Russia resulting over 500 commercial agreements worth $12 billion. About four dozen African leaders and high-level…
Disagreeing Reasonably in a Complex World: A review of The Case Against Free Speech
The Case Against Free Speech: The First Amendment, Fascism, and the Future of Dissent by P. E. Moskowitz (Bold Type Books, 2019) In my last couple years of university…
Genetically Engineered Golden Rice: A Silver Bullet that Misses the Target
Promoters of genetic modification (GM) in agriculture have long argued that genetically engineered Golden Rice is a practical way to provide poor farmers in remote areas with a subsistence crop…
Unlevelled Fields: Brexit, Workers’ Rights and the Environment
The smorgasbord of Brexit terms has been further plated up with the latest acronym: the WAB or Withdrawal Agreement Bill. It comes in at 115 pages, with an added bonus…
Climate Risks: Wildfires, Glacier Melt, Coastal Flooding
California wildfires are again in the news as the Kincade Fire now raging risked 50,000 people, who have been evacuated. It might come as a surprise but there have been…
The Age of Savarkar in Gandhi’s India
During the month and year of Gandhi's 150th birth anniversary, the BJP has the audacity to celebrate Savarkar, the plotter of Mahatma's assassination Whatever you may think of the BJP…
Justice for Harsha!
On October 21st , 2019, Harsha a student in Amrita School of Engineering in Bangalore, committed suicide within the college premise, by jumping off the main college building. Ever since…
By-Elections 2019: Arrogance slapped
The poll results of the Haryana and Maharashtra Assembly as well as by-polls in about 52 constituencies across the country are out and wronged the pollsters as well as the…
Are we forgetting that TB prevention is better than cure?
Without infection there is no disease: Nip the TB infection Prevention of new infections of TB bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis) and their progression to active TB disease is critical to reduce…
Millions march for social equality across Chile
Millions of people protesting social inequality and state violence poured into the streets across Chile yesterday in the largest demonstrations in the country’s history. Stunned Chilean television commenters described the…
The Saudi Oil Attack: Geo-Political Theatrics
THE OPENING SCENE The 14th September 2019 attack which had caused significant damage to Saudi based Aramco Oil plants in Abqaiq and Khurais, was the trigger for much of the…
Calling Modi’s Bluff
Results of the latest state assembly elections in Haryana and Punjab, and some by-elections in other states indicate a slight awakening from the slumber in which the Indian electorate had …
Kashmir: Self-Determination Is The Solution
It is a pity that some groups and individuals are urging palm oil importers in India to refrain from buying the commodity from Malaysia. The Solvent Extractors Association of India,…
Trident Is the Crime
On October 24, following a three-day trial in Brunswick, GA, seven Catholic Workers who acted to disarm a nuclear submarine base were convicted on three felony counts and one…
Full employment is a turning point for capitalism, Unemployment creates exploitation of workers
The owners of capital favour unemployment, because the unemployed workers have to accept poorly paid jobs to be able to feed their families. A higher unemployment rate produces cheaper labour.…
Hindutva loses in the US congress
Ms. Suhag Shukla, Executive Director of the Hindu American Foundation was upset with the congressional hearings on October 22nd, 2019, about Modi government’s gross violations of Human rights, democratic norms…
Women prison inmates – pathetic state
While prisons in the country in general lack basic amenities and prisoners are made to live in sub-human conditions, women in jails suffer more than their male counterparts in most…
Protests, protest everywhere, but not (a major) one in India?
The world seems roiled by a “million mutinies now,” to use a term used by VS Naipaul to describe a situation in India in the 1980s. Yet, while India still…
Sikh Organizations: India not a Hindu Rashtra
RSS ideologues and leaders regularly keep stating that India is a Hindu Rashtra. This has been most annoying for the religious minorities, particularly Muslims, Sikhs and all those believing in…
U.S. plans to send tanks to Syria oil fields
The U.S. is reportedly planning to deploy tanks and other heavy military hardware to protect oil fields in eastern Syria. This would mark the first deployment of U.S. tanks to…
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