Life Beyond 1.5C
Headlines describing the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference or Conference of the Parties (COP) of UNFCCC more commonly referred to as COP27 at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt sent troubling messages: “The…
2022
What does it mean to be human? An Anarchist/Humanist Perspective
If you feel pain then you are alive. If you feel the pain of others then you are human. Leo Tolstoy Similar profound statements…
Why Does Our Skin Wrinkle in Water?
The pruning up of fingertips when we bathe or swim is a phenomenon of the human body that is so common and yet little understood. Despite many decades of scientific…
Cuba Goes on a Diplomatic Tour in an Increasingly Multipolar World
On November 27 morning, Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, walked into a voting station in the Playa neighborhood to vote in Cuba’s municipal elections. He had landed in Havana an hour earlier from an intense…
‘The Ax Always Falls on the Most Vulnerable’: Pakistan Demands Debt Cancellation and Climate Justice
More than 1,700 people have been killed in floods that continue to submerge parts of Pakistan. Amid this crisis, activists are demanding debt cancellation and climate reparations. Even as the…
HE STANDS on the ROCK
He stands on the Rock the beautiful rock beside the flourishing Tree of Life. He stands on the Rock on the beautiful rock beside the flowing river of light.…
The Union Makes Us Strong: Understanding Trade Unionism in a Global Context
One of the encouraging things this long-time labor activist has been watching over the past several years is the emerging development of unions across the world and in the United…
Resistance on the football arena
In addition to the many shock results of several matches at the World Cup, perhaps the biggest upsets have fallen on Israeli fans and the Israeli media. Little did Israel…
An Open Letter from People’s Movements to the Governor: Questioning the Make-in-Odisha Conclave and the Current Development Model
Respected Sir, We as concerned citizens, social activists, political and human rights activists, environmentalists and journalists and the leaders of twelve mass organizations on behalf of Bisthapan Birodhi Jana Andolon…
Fiscal Federalism, my foot!
State governments are perplexed by the long delay in convening the quarterly Goods and Services Tax council meeting. The council has not met over the last four-and-a-half months whereas the…
Crony Capitalism System Protected
In last five years Rs. 10,09,510 crores taken as loans by various companies from banks in India has been declared as Non Performing Assets, an euphemism for writing them off.…
Possible violation of Model Code by Amit Shah- EC must disclose action taken
To Shri Rajiv Kumar Chief Election Commissioner Shri A C Pandey Election Commissioner Shri A Goel Election Commissioner Dear S/Shri Rajiv Kumar/ Pandey and Goel, I refer to…
Who Needs or Wants GMOs? Not the Public, Not India’s Farmers
Many scientists lobbying for the deregulation of agricultural biotechnology ‘new genomic techniques’ (NGTs) in the European Union have either direct or indirect interests in commercialising and marketing new genetically modified…
Supreme Court Raises Extremely Important Questions on GM Mustard
On December 1, in the on-going case relating to objections raised against the introduction of the first GM (genetically modified) food crop in the form of GM Mustard in India,…
Khalid Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns: Giving Voice to the Voiceless
The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini poignantly writes the story of brave and courageous Afghan women who have lived under the debilitating shadows of patriarchal oppression, endless…
Paying for an Overheating Earth
by Stan Cox & Priti Gulati Cox On October 29th, 75-year-old Saifullah Paracha, Guantánamo Bay’s oldest detainee, was finally released by U.S. authorities and flown home to his family in Karachi, Pakistan.…
India-China war at 60 : A Review
India-China war of 1962 ended in late November 1962, 60 years ago, by an unilateral ceasefire declared by China despite having an upper hand in the battle field. China had…
Pachattar Saal Baad – 75-years on … A self-critical view
India has great diversity. It is geo-climatically diverse, with the Himalayan and trans-Himalayan mountains, the Indo-Gangetic plains, deserts, the peninsular plateau with mountain ranges, and riverine and coastal plains. People…
German Police in The Ukraine
German police has a long history that reaches even into the Ukraine. Ever since Browning’s work on the Reserve Police Battalion 101, we have known that there were – unsurprisingly…
Eight Reasons Why Now is a Good Time for a Ukraine Ceasefire and Peace Talks
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies As the war in Ukraine has dragged on for nine months and a cold winter is setting in, people all over the…
Julian Assange and Albanese’s Intervention
The unflinching US effort to extradite and prosecute Julian Assange for 18 charges, 17 of which are chillingly based upon the Espionage Act of 1917, has not always stirred much…
‘Deliberate Ambiguity’: Israel’s Nuclear Weapons Are Greatest Threat to Middle East
As western countries are floating the theory that Russia could escalate its conflict with Ukraine to a nuclear war, many western governments continue to turn a blind eye to Israel’s…
The Mega Rich Have It Made!!
There are less than 1% of Americans who earn over $5 Million per year. They are taxed at the same top rate ( 37%) as those earning approximately $ 600k…
Kurdistan and Kosovo
A recent blast hit the center of Istanbul resulting in several casualties. The Turkish authorities were very quick to announce the identity of the suicide person: A Kurdish woman in…
Health, Environment and Livelihoods in Somalia Have Suffered Much From Dumping of Toxic Wastes from Europe
Starting from 1989 and continuing for at least 15 years, perhaps much more, millions of tonnes of toxic wastes were dumped in the long-stretched coastal areas of Somalia, as confirmed…
Dalit agricultural Workers lathi charged outside Punjab CM’s residence in Sangrur
A 10000 strong contingent of dalit agricultural workers under the leadership of the common front of rural and farm labour organizations or Sanjha Morcha Sangrur, thronged near the chief minsters…
NATO summit vows to continue troop surge to Russia’s borders
NATO foreign ministers met in Bucharest, Romania, on Tuesday, along with representatives of the prospective NATO members Ukraine, Finland, and Sweden to discuss a further expansion of the NATO war…
40th anniversary of ‘Gandhi’ movie by Richard Attenborough
This movie produced by Richard Attenborough which was released 40 years ago on November 30th, 1982, was classic in it's own right. Ironical that it took an Englishman to embark…
Russian Oil Keeps Flowing
The total daily volume of crude shipped from Russia rebounded to 2.89 million barrels in the seven days to November 25, with the EU’s price cap deadline approaching, Bloomberg reported…
Sustainable Consumption, Sustainability in Value Chain
This is a small article addressed to beginners Sustainable Consumption Life on earth can be divided in two parts – plant life and animal life. The difference between the two…
Is Russia Really the Reason Why Mali Continues to Push France Away?
On November 21, 2022, Mali’s interim Prime Minister Colonel Abdoulaye Maïga posted a statement on social media to say that Mali has decided “to ban, with immediate effect, all activities…
Puerto Rico: FEMA corruption sabotages aid for islanders
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is failing in its mission to help those in need after a disaster. Its mandate is simple — repair and rebuild — but racism,…
Somalia’s Long Journey from Prosperity to Hunger Deaths
In the hunger map of present day world, Somalia is probably the most seriously affected country of the 21st century. Somalia is reported by the UN to have lost 260,000…
The MAGAfication of America
Just in case you didn’t notice, authoritarianism was on the ballot in the 2022 midterm elections. An unprecedented majority of candidates from one of the nation’s two major political parties were committed…
Postpone Enforcement Of CPTPP
Malaysia ratified the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) on 30th September 2022. It comes into force on 30th November 2022.One hopes that the new Malaysian government will…
“I can’t invent a history for those who have none!” — P. Sainath
Glimpses from the book launch — The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom by noted journalist P. Sainath New Delhi: The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom by…
As UK premier polishes his “Brand Rishi” image, the country slides into recession
When British Conservative Party MPs anointed Rishi Sunak, in October this year, as their new prime minister, he effectually came to power without people having the chance to vote. He…
The farmers braved the barricade
To loot, or to advance economy, farmers are encountered. Role in economy makes farmers an important question in countries. This sub-continent too can’t ignore the question. Amit Bhaduri examines aspects…
The Constitution belongs to ‘We, the People!’
It was ‘Constitution Day’ once again on 26 November, as the nation remembered with profound gratitude the day in 1949, on which…
Montreal Biodiversity COP15 December 2022
What is it about a bunch of high-ranking people getting together at a Conference of the Parties (COP) at some major metropolitan center with plenty of 4-star and 5-star hotels…
Tuvalu, Climate Change and the Metaverse
When lost to climatic disaster and environmental turbulence, where does a whole nation go? History speaks about movements of people, whether induced by human agency or environment, finding sanctuary and…
Populist Climate Action Requires Thinking About Freedom From Specific Oppressors—Not Just Species Survival
The climate crisis is a form of oppression by a wealthy few. In September 2022, an international group of climate scientists published a study showing that the world was close…
The Global Push for Population Growth Shows We’re Not Grappling With the Climate Crisis
In all of the news surrounding Vladimir Putin, it might have been easy to overlook that he had recently revived a Soviet-era policy called the “Mother Heroine” award, which goes to…
New York Times, Guardian And 3 More Media Outlets Call To End Prosecution Of Assange: Publishing Is Not A Crime
“The U.S. government should end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets,” the editors of the Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El Pais wrote in a joint…
Could China Help Brazil to Overcome Its Economic Crisis?
The election victory of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva as the president of Brazil for a third term on October 30 is expected to revise the relations between Brasília and Beijing. Brazil…
10 Suggestions for Lula, New President of Brazil
Dear President Lula, When I visited you (Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva) in prison on August 30, 2018, in the brief time that the visit lasted, I experienced a whirlwind…
Chinese Authorities Should Have Been Much More Sensitive to Adverse Impacts of Prolonged Lockdowns
At a time when most of the world has left far behind the stage of prolonged COVID related lockdowns, the Chinese authorities have continued with very long lockdowns in several…
Football, the global binder
Every four years, the football world cup brings the world together. The euphoric bond transcends religious, ideological, political and time barriers. Messi, Mbappe, Neymar, Benzema and Mohammed Salah, artists in…
The Madness of German Autobahnism
As the title suggests, this is about the Germans and their beloved Autobahn for which, yet another piece of German forest – the Riegerwald – will be destroyed in a…
Delhi state Anganwadi Workers and helpers union stage campaign against AAP and BJP
On 28th November, In Babarpur the Anganwadi workers Union launched a qualitative campaign in exposing the nefarious agenda of the BJP and AAP. It gheraoed house of labour minister Gopal…
India’s hypocrisy towards Ambedkar exposed once more
On November 26, the world’s so called largest democracy celebrated its Constitution Day. Not only were special events held by the Indian government back home, several programs were organized in…
The initiative of the Vaagdhara organization to preserve coarse grains
The world today is facing a big challenge like the food crisis due to Covid, the climate crisis, the Ukraine war, etc. In such a situation, there is a need…
‘Veer’ Savarkar, the Master of Mercy Petitions
I beg to remain, SIR, Your most obedient servant, (Sd.) V.D. Savarkar, Convict no. 32778. An old saying: "When every record leaps to light, they shall ever be shamed." In…
Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India
Gandhi’s Assassin: The Making of Nathuram Godse and His Idea of India, Dhirendra K Jha, Vintage Books, 2022. ISBN-13 :978-0670096473. Pages 344 In the last few years, there have been…
China Experiences Anti-Lockdown Protests, Restrictions Being Lifted
Protests broke out in China this weekend, with demonstrators in Shanghai, Wuhan, Beijing and other locations demanding an end to the government’s stringent Covid restrictions. Videos shared on social media…
Narendra Modi’s new found love for Tamil
The Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) or the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) have long argued for ‘Hindu-Hindi-Hindustan’, which into recent years has translated into a crisper English expression: ‘One Nation-One Religion-One…
Supreme Court’s Widely- Praised Bail for Anand Teltumbde should be Followed by Wider Justice in Elgar Case
Supreme Court’s firmness in upholding the Bombay High Court’s order granting bail to Anand Teltumbde has been widely appreciated. However, we must also listen to what this 73 year old…
Jagdish Tirodkar: The departure of a gentle socialist
As a consequence of my fledgling activism in my student life to my dedicated commitment towards socialism till now, I found umpteen occasions to meet and interact with many people…
What If the U.S. and China Really Cooperated on Climate Change?
As President Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrived on the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, for their November 14th “summit,” relations between their two countries were on a…
Xi vs Trudeau: How China is Rewriting History with the Colonial West
Though brief, the exchange between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia on November 16 has become a…
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