Urgent Steps Needed to Improve Worsening Housing Situation in COVID Times
Housing problems both for the weaker sections as well as for the middle class have worsened during COVID times. This can be seen even in some of the developed countries,…
August 2021
Conversation with Dr Manisha Bangar Part I
Phule-Ambedkarite ideology is the only alternative for Bahujans, says Dr Manisha Bangar, National Vice President, People’s Party of India, former National Vice President, BAMCEF in conversation with Vidya Bhushan Rawat…
Afghanistan: Farewell to Arms, Predator Drones, Night Raids…?
It is right that the Western troops are finally leaving our country — they should have done so much earlier. We cannot have a serious peace process as long as…
Sixteen years after Katrina: Hurricane Ida devastates southern Louisiana
Hurricane Ida made landfall Sunday as the second most powerful storm to hit the state of Louisiana in its recorded history, bringing widespread flooding from heavy rains and storm surge.…
Resurrecting The Memories of “The Kid” in the centenary year
This year in January we commemorated the centenary of Charlie Chaplin's1st motion film 'The Kid.' No doubt such a film would be outdated today, in the days of high tech,artificial…
Afghanistan: The First Mistake
Establishment journalists and politicians are despairingly asking: Why did we fail in our well-meaning efforts to help the Afghan people? What were our mistakes? But they ignore their first mistake:…
Rajasthan Rising: Movement of young girls challenging patriarchy
by Neha Saigal & Saumya Shrivastava Earlier this year, on a pleasant afternoon we made our way from the walled and very beautiful city of Jaipur to the narrow and…
Combating Hate in a Plural Society: Scattered attacks on Muslims
India’s diversity has been amazing as different cultures, religions, languages and ethnicities had been living here, cheek by jowl, from last many centuries. Bhakti-Sufi Saints and then the freedom movement…
Educating for the Prime Directive
Recently, I was involved in a discussion about the things we do and do not teach our children. I’ve already said quite a bit on this subject. But after talking with a…
US-China relations at crossroads
The Biden Administration, in dire straits over Afghanistan, is pursuing China for help. There have been two phone calls to Chinese State Councilor and FM Wang Yi from US Secretary…
11 Pro-Apartheid Western Countries Boycott 2021 UN Anti-racism Durban IV Conference
As exampled by Apartheid Israel, racism is utterly wrong, cruel and unjust because people have no say in where and to whom they are born. Accordingly decent countries support the…
We Can’t Prevent Future Nuclear Wars Unless We Imagine Them Today
by Marina Favaro & Sara Z. Kutchesfahani The desire to anticipate what the future holds is not new. The Delphic oracle in the eighth century BC held a prestigious and authoritative…
A Vengeful American Empire Has Been Humiliated in Afghanistan
The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan. The Carthaginian general Hannibal, who came close to defeating the Roman Republic in the…
As Our Bodies and Planetary Systems Become “Inflamed,” How Do We Heal?
In their new book, authors Rupa Marya and Raj Patel explore how capitalism and colonialism have caused sickness and how Indigenous knowledge can offer healing. Multiple planetary crises are breaking out…
In Odisha, community radio connects Adivasis with COVID-19 information
Bhubaneswar: As the sun rises over the horizon at the nondescript and pristine Chappar village in Odisha’s Koraput district, the radio comes on. For the past year, the community radio…
Agrarian Crisis and the Longest Farmers’ Protest in Indian History
“The farmers not only know how to farm, but they also know how to protect their fields,” said a farm leader from Punjab at the protest site on the outskirts…
Voices from the Covid Battlefield – Episode Six
In this series of interviews Covid Response Watch brings you the voices of doctors, health workers, social activists and others, working at the grassroots, speaking about the multiple impacts of…
Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Louisiana, bringing widespread flooding and wind damage
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) expects Hurricane Ida will continue to produce heavy rainfall through Monday across the central Gulf Coast, resulting in “life-threatening flash and urban flooding and significant…
Afghanistan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Poverty
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Americans have been shocked by videos of thousands of Afghans risking their lives to flee the Taliban’s return to power in their…
Taliban has a package deal with US. Coast is clear for new government in Kabul
The US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan discussed today in an interview with CBS “Face the Nation” the evolving relationship between Washington and the Afghan Taliban. Three things emerge. First,…
The All-Party Meeting, India’s Subservient Afghan Policy: A Review
This is a review, in two parts, of some aspects of the All-Party Meeting on Afghanistan August 26, convened by the Modi-led Indian govt. This Part-1deals with India’s foreign policy…
Tribute to Purushottam Pali, a liberator of Adivasis
On December 6th, 1988, Comrade Purushottam Pali left us. Without doubt he was one of the most defining and inspiring comrades in the work of the Indian Communist movement in…
Afghanistan: Time for Peace, Reconstruction, Nation-Building & International Engagement – The Challenges Ahead
The Russia-China led SCO emerges to replace US-NATO both in military & economic terms These are indeed remarkable times we live in, even as history is unfolding before our very…
Afghanistan, the great game of smashing countries
As a tsunami of crocodile tears engulfs Western politicians, history is suppressed. More than a generation ago, Afghanistan won its freedom, which the United States, Britain and their “allies” destroyed.…
The culture of civilization is a mass suicide pact
The culture of civilization is a mass suicide pact this may seem a frivolous statement but let me hold your attention for a moment. There are 8 billion people on…
Two Ideas of Nationalism
by Chaitanya Pandey and Sandeep Pandey India today is witness to two contesting ideas of nationalism. There is an idea of nationalism which emerged from the freedom movement. This idea…
Privatisation Of India And Its Implications
On July 22nd, 2021, Modi Government informed the Parliament of its decision to disinvest its stake in 23 Central Public Sector Units (CPSUs) [1]. On August 23rd, Finance Minister Nirmala…
Stadio Olimpico: Can Sports Heal the World?
Amid chaotic politics and anti-immigrant and refugee sentiments, Stadio Olimpico in Rome seemed like an oasis of social and cultural harmony. AS Roma and Raja Casablanca fans gathered in their…
Amazon, “Economic Terrorism” and the Destruction of Competition and Livelihoods
Global corporations are colonising India’s retail space through e-commerce and destroying small-scale physical retail and millions of livelihoods. Walmart entered into India in 2016 with a US$3.3 billion take-over of…
Senseless Violence in Afghanistan
On August 26, 2021, a terrorist attack struck the area outside of the US-occupied Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), a regional offshoot of…
The Plight of Afghans and Geopolitical Games – Analysis
“The disaster the people of Afghanistan have endured over decades is beyond human imagination and the plight of the people has multiplied with big power games in Eurasia, which eventually…
Why The Climate Emergency is now The Methane Emergency
We are about to go through the most profound shift in the climate debate in 20 years. The result will be the end of the gas industry’s hope of being…
Restless and Relentless Minds: Thinking as a “Species out of Context”
Abstract The stability of the Earth’s ecosystems, and hence the future of the human species, depends on people recognizing and responding to multiple, cascading social and ecological crises that can…
Between Vaccine and the Ventilator
“I am planning to get my Covid vaccine shot this week” I told a very dear German friend of mine the other day over the phone. “No! Don’t do that!”…
Tribute To KVSN Prasad Rao On His Birth Centenary
Earlier this year on 10th February the civil liberties movement or democratic rights movement commemorated the birth centenary of Comrade KVSN Prasad Rao,,who at the time of his death was…
Death toll in Kabul airport terrorist attack rises to 170
The official death toll from the terrorist attack outside Kabul international airport on Thursday was increased significantly on Friday to over 160. The number of Afghan victims almost tripled and…
Law and Order Tumbling Down?
Radical social critics often complain bitterly that the invocation of law and order is a fiction that merely upholds the legitimacy of propertied classes. The common man,who suffers most from…
Canadian municipality proclaims Gauri Lankesh Day
The City of Burnaby has declared September 5 as a day to honour a slain Indian journalist. Daring editor Gauri Lankesh was allegedly murdered by right wing extremists in Bengaluru,…
Knocking at our Door – The fourth Industrial Revolution
A lot of my work in recent years has been to work for the eradication of Forced Labour in India. The approach favoured in my set up ( and in…
India reaches out to Russia to break out of regional isolation over Afghanistan
The Indian establishment media hyped up Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 24 in a desperate attempt to distract attention from Delhi’s abject isolation…
Humiliating Defeat In Afghanistan
The mainstream Western media is full of news these days about people fleeing Kabul in the wake of the Taliban victory. Dramatic pictures of young and old scrambling to get…
Part One: A Message to the EU: Address the Spiralling Public Health Crisis by Banning Glyphosate
The herbicide glyphosate – the most widely used herbicide on the planet – is authorised for use in the EU until December 2022. The EU is currently assessing whether its…
Dr. Vayala Vasudevan Pillai – A Man Who Inspired Young Hearts
It was in 2009 I got a chance to meet this veteran artist and visionary who spend his life to fulfilment till the end, Dr.Vayala Vasudevan Pillai. One evening Jean…
Obdurate
A word can have strong meanings associated with it, and depending on its use, can be interpreted from different perspectives. Recently I heard a citation from Michael Ignatieff, Canada’s contribution…
Drought Clobbers the World
According to SPEI Global Drought Monitor, no continent is spared the ravages of severe drought, except for Antarctica. This is happening at a global temperature of 1.2°C above baseline, not…
Parables, flying scrolls and fiction: What is evil?
It is easy for derivative theoreticians who cannot creatively comprehend the deconstructive nature of creative texts to dismiss creative processes and their decentered layers and structures by highlighting a single…
Terror bombs, gunfire kill at least 72 in Afghanistan capital
In what the US military described as a “complex attack,” several terrorists attacked a screening checkpoint at a gate into the Kabul airport and a nearby hotel on Thursday, inflicting…
Terrorist strikes in Kabul: A political windfall for Taliban
The horrific terrorist strikes in Kabul on Thursday which killed at least 12 US servicemen and dozens of civilians will lead to a higher level of cooperation between the US…
Genesis of Right Wing Islamic Activism
The US believed that Muslims between Greece and China, ‘The Arc of Islam’ would function as fire wall against the USSR, and might even incite the restive Muslims inside the…
Samar Sen Gave Indian Revolutionary Journalism A New Dimension
On 23rd August, we commemorated the 34th death anniversary of Samar Sen, one of the most creative and dynamic persons in Indian history. His writings and poems had the subtle…
Govt of India’s decision to import GM soymeal into India patently illegal
New Delhi, August 27th 2021: The Coalition for a GM-Free India, a civil society platform that had been in the forefront of struggles against hazardous gene technologies being deployed in…
Farm Laws and the Farmers Protest – A discussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xQgRQAzA_M&t=2915s A discussion hosted by the World Sikh Parliament network and run on KTV - a UK-based satellite TV channel for the Sikh diaspora A detailed horror tale in…
Hate — impact on daily life
"Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born.…
New Taliban, New Afghanistan?
After 20 years of US/NATO/Afghan Puppet Army’s brutal and illegal occupation of Afghanistan, Kabul, the capital city finally fell on August 15, 2021, at the hands of the reclusive but…
The Neocons Speak: Afghanistan as Political Real Estate
When the tears dry, it is worth considering why there is so much upset about the fall of Kabul (or reconquest) by the Taliban and the messy withdrawal of US-led…
Two Decades After Assassination, the Lion of Panjshir Continues to Inspire Resistance
Just two days before the horrible 9/11 attack on the USA, on September 9 2001, another extremely tragic attack took place in far-away Afghanistan which resulted in the assassination of…
Voices from the Covid Battlefield – Episode Five
In this series of interviews Covid Response Watch brings you the voices of doctors, health workers, social activists and others, working ats the grassroots, speaking about the multiple impacts of…
In India, the number of women farmers is steadily declining and the number of women agricultural laborers is increasing.
At present, there is a discussion of farmers' movement all over the country. The Supreme Court has constituted a four-member committee. However, one of the members withdrew his name. During…
Bangla Sanskriti Manch: Spreading solidarity in Covid times
It’s a beautiful new beginning on the day of Rakhi across some villages and small towns in several districts of Bengal. Resurrecting a tradition started by Rabindranath Tagore, volunteers of…
Quad meets the “Saigon moment”
The regional tour of Southeast Asia by the US Vice-President Kamala Harris got inundated with the tsunami of criticism over the United States’ frantic efforts to complete the evacuation out…
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