Impact of the Covid Pandemic on Food Prices in India- Part One
In the 3–4 months before the Covid pandemic set in early 2020, potato prices were ruling high at around Rs.30–35 per kg in the retail markets. India’s potato farmers who…
March 2022
A Bipartisan Oil Rush or the Phasing Out of Fossil Fuels?
While the Ukrainian people bear the lethal brunt of Russia’s invasion, shockwaves from that war threaten to worsen other crises across the planet. The emergency that loomed largest before Vladimir…
Despite Growing Evidence of Serious Risks of GM Crops, Now Attempts Are On to Find Backdoor Entry in India
At the time of a huge corporate assault to get clearance for Bt brinjal GM ( Genetically Modified) crop, farmers and civil society had joined hands together to resist…
Why RRR is not a Hindutva propagating film
The recently released movie ‘RRR’ is being received well across the country. The movie is based on two revolutionary tribal leaders namely Alluri Sitaramaraju and Komaram Bheem. While both lived…
Ukraine Updates: All Russia’s Big Exports Could Soon Be In Roubles, Signals Kremlin
The Kremlin indicated on Wednesday that all of Russia's energy and commodity exports could be priced in roubles, toughening President Vladimir Putin's attempt to make the West feel the pain…
The Ukraine war and the impending pandemic of hunger- Part Two
For the world’s vulnerable populations already reeling from one of the worst economic shocks and an unprecedented hunger and livelihoods crisis resulting from the Covid-19 lockdowns, Russia’s war in Ukraine…
The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict in its Historical Global Context
Introduction Symptomatic of the intensification of the US-led Cold War in the first two decades of the 21st century, the Russian war in Ukraine was a point of contention for…
Gaza’s Forthcoming Crisis Might Be Worse than Anything We Have Ever Seen
“The water is back,” one family member would announce in a mix of excitement and panic, often very late at night. The moment such an announcement was made, my whole…
It’s Time for Charles Koch to Testify About His Climate Disinformation Campaign
For more than two decades, Koch-controlled foundations spent more than $160 million to stymie government action on climate change. The U.S. House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation…
A Nine-Year Obscenity: The Australia-NZ Resettlement Deal
Obscenities occupy the annals of State behaviour, revolting reminders about what governments can do. One of Australia’s most pronounced and undeniable obscenities is its continuing effort to gut and empty…
Palestine is a loud echo of Britain’s colonial past – and a warning of the future
In moving from Nazareth back to the UK, I have stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire [This is a transcript of a talk I gave…
How patients were ripped-off by private hospitals during the Covid pandemic
SATHI, a Pune-based NGO, has brought out a compendium of 23 testimonies from patients or their kin, documenting price gouging by private hospitals in Maharashtra. The report, ‘Patients’ voices during…
The Ukraine war and the impending pandemic of hunger-Part One
For the world’s vulnerable populations already reeling from one of the worst economic shocks and an unprecedented hunger and livelihoods crisis resulting from the Covid-19 lockdowns, Russia’s war in…
Ukraine Update: Possibility Of Putin-Zelensky And Putin-Biden Meeting
Citing Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky, who leads the Russian delegation to the talks with Ukraine, an Istanbul, March 29 datelined media report said: Russia has suggested a meeting between…
Savarkar as a diehard Casteist: Evidence from Hindutva archives
The Savarkar rehabilitation project is taking newer forms. The latest attempt [‘How Savarkar fought for a casteless society’, The Indian Express, 28-02-2022] by the Savarkarites is to claim that “He…
The Ukraine War: “Beyond the fight, lies the greater fight”
The “Unwinnable War” Last week, the UN secretary-general António Guterres said that the Ukraine war is “….unwinnable” and this is true but sadly, there seems to be no letup in…
Ukraine Can’t Be a “Trump-Card” When Diplomacy Fails!
Despite being voiced aggressively, “Ukraine-Diplomacy” exercised by the so-called friends of this country has so far shown virtually no sign of ending sufferings of Ukrainians and of Ukraine-crisis. This certainly…
Medea in Hell
A Short Philosophical One-Act Play The Place: Hades (World of Shadows) Medea: In that eye within which I saw a world reduced I engendered a treacly venom so strong that…
India–Massive strike of 200 million workers draws attention to increasing problems and apprehensions of workers
The call for a 2 day national level strike by workers given by 10 central trade unions and other supporting organizations in India drew a strong response by over 200…
The Costs of (Another) War, When We Could Be Fighting Climate Change
What do a six-year-old in the United States and an 85-year-old in Russia have in common besides being on opposite sides of a war? They’re both feeling the strain of…
Anti-Conversion Laws Violate Constitutional Rights: Dr Sandeep Pandey
Karnataka Government has passed the Anti-Conversion Bill in the Assembly despite stiff opposition from civil society and political parties. The Bill is expected to be tabled in the upper house…
Status of Religion in 21st Century
Review of “Essay Competition” Sponsored by ‘Anti-Dowry Movement” BACKGROUND OF THE ESSAY COMPETITION This year An Inter collegiate Essay competition for College students across Maharashtra State was sponsored on…
Open letter to Kerala CM: Silver line, no silver lining
Dear Shri Pinarayi Vijayan Ji, A few years ago, I attended a wedding somewhere between Thiruvalla and Changanassery. Soon after the reception, an elderly person approached me. After some initial…
The Urgent Need For Climate Action
Climate disaster seems a distant threat One reason why the Glasgow Climate conference failed so miserably to produce urgently needed climate action was that humans tend to react to what…
Antarctica on Edge
East Antarctica, often times referred to as “the final frontier of global warming,” is making headlines once again. A few weeks ago East Antarctica’s temperatures soared by 50F to 90F…
Russian war in Ukraine and the shifting global balance of power
The shifting world order is a more realistic prospect after the Russian invasion of Ukraine than in the aftermath of the Great Recession of 2008 which destabilized the neoliberal globalization…
Putin…& ….
1. Putin! Putin! There’s really no disputin’! You’re a liar and a louse And you look like a mouse! Get out of our House! This House we call “Earth”! That’s…
The MADness of the Resurgent U.S. Cold War With Russia
The war in Ukraine has placed U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia under a spotlight, highlighting how the United States and its allies have expanded NATO right up to Russia’s…
Ukraine Update: Zelenskyy’s Representative Blames U.S. And Budapest Memorandum Signatories For War
A representative of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described signatories to the Budapest Memorandum as a reason Ukraine is at war, citing their failure to hold up their end of the…
Time is Ticking: Israel’s Balancing Act in Ukraine is Likely to Backfire
Israel’s balancing act in the Russia-Ukraine war is likely to falter soon, simply because the resulting NATO-Russia conflict is expected to last for years, not weeks or months. Eventually, Israel…
Four theses on Russia-Ukraine situation
With a month long conflict between Russia and Ukraine, several theses have been proposed by authors, experts and scholars. Here, Dmitry Kochegurov presents four different ones adding to the ongoing…
Bill McKibben: Greenwashing U.S. Imperialism’s Russia Rivalry, War Moves in Ukraine …a Call for Debate
Since Russia carried out its brutal, unjust invasion of Ukraine, environmental writer and activist Bill McKibben has been pumping out rationales in op-ed pieces and media appearances for supporting the…
A Comparison of Who the New York Times Deems Worthy and Unworthy of Propping up
The New York Times continues to selectively promote news that fits the Establishment narrative. The NYT portrays the nine-year sentence of the Russian “opposition leader” Aleksei Navalny to a high-security…
NATOstan: She’s looking at YOU
NATOstan: she's looking at YOU. A Roma untermensch packaged by Ukrainian "democracy". The above picture and text is from a tweet by Pepe Escobar. Is this what you are supporting?…
Class Struggle Unionism
Joe Burns’ new book says only workers can save the labor movement (Part One) I have only started reading Joe Burns’ new book, Class Struggle Unionism, but I feel a…
If USA’s Russia policy is based on peace, this will be good for both countries and simply great for world
At a time when the Russian invasion of Ukraine has faced a lot of well-justified criticism, a different yet related question also needs to be raised. Would Ukraine have become…
Unimplemented undertakings, resolutions and promises of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s defiance and delaying tactics in implementing its own undertakings and several UNHRC Resolutions by demanding extensions and lame excuses to implement these in good faith and in time.…
Bharatiya Kisan Union(Ekta) Ugrahan remembers Shaheed Bhagat Singh,Sukhdev and Rajguru on Martrydom day
Without doubt Bhagat Singh was one of the greatest ever revolutionaries who chalked out a genuine revolutionary anti-colonial programme and not the Indian National Congress. He pioneered the formation…
ECI would do well to count 100% VVPAT slips
by Sandeep Pandey, Vikrant Singh, Pawan Singh and Devesh Patel Even though Yogi Adityanath is now back as Chief Minister, the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election results can at best…
The Anti-Conversion Bill in Haryana is Worse than the Karnataka Bill
Karnataka Government has passed the Anti-Conversion Bill in the Assembly despite stiff opposition from civil society and political parties. The Bill is expected to be tabled in the upper house…
Rampurhat
The entire city is smelling of burnt human flesh all are smelling same - the flesh of the children, pregnant women and newly wed couple. We learnt today fire does…
“Kashmir Files”-Half Truths and falsehoods galore
Major weapon of sectarian nationalism is to spread misconceptions and create hate against the religious minorities. This process which has been going on since long has now got a new…
Aroused by Power: Why Madeleine Albright Was Not Right
When involved in war, those who feel like benefactors are bound to congratulate the gun toting initiators. If you so happen to be on the losing end, sentiments are rather…
Proposal for a Federal Front to contain the onslaught on federalism
To Shri Bhagwant Mann Chief Minister Punjab Dear Shri Mann, Let me take this opportunity to congratulate you on taking over as the Chief Minister of Punjab. I am sure…
“Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”: Ukraine War & US Killing By War & Sanctions
The Western world rightly deplores the war criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine but simultaneously ignores the horrendous impact of (a) bloody US invasions of 52 countries since WW2, and (b)…
Tamilnadu’s Caste mafia has deep roots and thrives by patronage of ruling parties
Yuvaraj, at the Madurai district court, was recently, on 5th March, 2022, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder (in June, 2015) of Gokulraj , for being friends with a…
The Truth About IPCC Reports
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in many respects, is a Delphic institution whose reports are a function of political discretion as it provides justification for nation/state policies that…
Hunger Stalks Central Asia as the Ukraine War Unfolds
On March 16, 2022, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev delivered his State of the Nation address in Nur-Sultan. Most of Tokayev’s speech was about the political reforms in Kazakhstan he had either accomplished or planned…
‘Let them eat Amrit’: After Covid a pandemic of extreme hunger awaits India
The Modi government’s indifference to the plight of the poor is now pathological. The Indian government’s rhetoric about ‘Amrit Kaal,’ an era of plenty, masks a consistent denial of the…
Ukraine Update: U.S. Sets Red Line For China
A Reuters report said: The Biden administration, seeking to deter China from aiding sanctions-hit Russia, on Wednesday warned Beijing not to take advantage of business opportunities created by sanctions, help…
Is Leadership Change Possible in BSP?
The recent Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election has once again exposed the continuing decline of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). In this, the BSP has got only one seat and…
Women and Italian Fascism: Lessons for the Contemporary World
Reports of women joining far-right movements have vexed many feminist scholars across the world. Their presence in neo-fascist neo-Nazi movements raised many questions insofar as such movements tend to denigrate…
War is still hell
Around 2000 years ago Seneca the Younger said: "We are mad not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much vaunted…
MSM cover-up of neo-Nazis in Ukraine
War is never inevitable, despite what the masters of war say. But what is inevitable are the relentless propaganda, censorship and disinformation disseminated by the mainstream media, politicians and pundits…
What Would a Potential CSTO Intervention in Ukraine Look Like?
While Russia’s original and shifting objectives in Ukraine remain unclear, the Kremlin is increasingly wary of a publicized, drawn-out conflict. A potential intervention by its military alliance, the Collective Security…
Russia’s Role in the Ukraine Conflict
On March 21, 2022, Gilbert Achcar – a Professor at SOAS University of London – published a note on the Russia-Ukraine conflict, openly wishing for a North Atlantic Treaty Organization…
Er Rashid: J&K’s Aam Aadmi is Now A Forgotten Hero
Once a popular leader, Er. Rashid has almost disappeared from news, particularly from mainstream media. Rashid comes from Langate area of Kupwara, a border district in Kashmir valley . Rashid…
Why Compulsory Reading of Bhagavad Gita in Schools is the Last thing We Need as a Democracy
Gujarat Government’s decision to incorporate Bhagavad Gita as a compulsory text for the students of class VI to XII have already brought up several arguments. On one hand, a few…
Cuba Prepares for Disaster
The September 2021 Scientific American included a description by the editors of the deplorable state of disaster relief in the US. They traced the root cause of problems with relief…
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