The Dirty Secret Behind the Hydrogen Hype
Despite promises of economic opportunity and jobs, communities slated for hydrogen projects see them for what they are: A handout for the fossil fuel industry. As our planet's temperature rises,…
October 2023
Bauxite Mining of the Sijimali Hills Illegal, Declare Public Meeting at Talaampadar
A huge public meeting was held on 29th October at Talaampadar of Thuamal Rampur Block in Kalahandi district of Odisha. This public meeting was attended by over 2000 people. The…
Sanctions, imperialist substitute for military power
Sanction is an old weapon. Warring parties are using the weapon since ages. Today, Lords of the World, the Empire, almost rampantly use this weapon – sanction – to further…
The Animism of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
To suggest that the current conflict in Gaza and Israel between Palestinians and Israelis is related in any way to animism would seem not only highly unlikely but even preposterous.…
An Ambedkarite’s ‘Abhiyan’ to educate the aspiring youngsters
Mr Shashikant Humane is a veteran Ambedkarite, humanist based in Nagpur. Born in February 1939, Shashikant ji belonged to the generation of Ambedkarites who had seen Baba Saheb Ambedkar. In…
Why We’re Seeing Shifting Patterns in Global Manufacturing
Amid other crises, China’s economy has reeled from Western decoupling efforts. While several countries stand to gain from this process, it has only partially reduced China’s extensive global influence. The…
The Gaza Manifesto: Why America’s Old Middle East is Crumbling
History will not forgive those who have remained silent, exhibited or expressed ‘balanced’ positions - or worse, defended Israel’s ongoing genocide in an already besieged, impoverished and overcrowded Gaza. This…
Gaza-Crisis: Who is the Real Loser/Winner?
United States President Joe Biden’s continued support for Israel and scathing criticism of Hamas bears no sign of Washington exercising wise diplomacy. Concern for diplomatic moves appears to have been…
Why the World Needs a Big Course Correction at this Stage of the 21st Century
Two of the most important facts about the 21st century must be emphasized. Firstly, no other century in human history started with such serious, known, avoidable, man-made threats relating to…
Ensure nutritious food to all
It is a matter of worry that at a GHI score of 28.7 in the Global Hunger Index Report 2023, India ranks at 111position out of the 125 countries surveyed. In comparison, our neighbours’…
Horrendous Death Ratios, Child Deaths & Palestinian Genocide Demand Immediate Cessation Of Gaza Massacre
The 7 October 2023 breakout of Palestinian fighters from the Gaza Concentration Camp was apparently aimed at capturing Israeli hostages to be exchanged for 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held by Apartheid…
Alternative history — I wish we could go back to the Ottoman Turkish Empire
The Palestinian Islamic resistance forces are waging a religious, cultural and social war against Israel and its western allies. This war is not simply “anticolonial” or “anti-apartheid.” It is not…
The consequences of apartheid in Israel and of US government support for such apartheid – Part 4. Antisemitism and Paradigm for Peace Recommendations
This is the conclusion of the series on Israel and the Palestinians. When asked in June to write a memo on the consequences of apartheid in Israel, I identified and…
Need of World Peace and Disarmament #DisarmamentWeek (24-30 Oct)
At a time when the world is witnessing two major conflicts (Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine) and numerous vulnerable points where conflicts can arise anytime; probably world peace seems a dire need of…
Almost 4 Million UK People Experienced Most Extreme Form Of Poverty Last Year, Finds Study
Almost four million people, including more than a million children, in Britain experienced the most extreme form of poverty last year, according to a recent study published by the Joseph…
Does the Genocide in Gaza Strengthen the Islamic Government in Iran?
On September 22, 2023, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his speech at the UN General Assembly, showed a map of "the New Middle East" and implied that the entire…
India’s solidarity with Israel is untenable
India’s muscular diplomacy, an attribute of the present government, has run into heavy weather. Body blows from multiple sources — spat with Canada; Maldives’ triumphalism about evicting Indian servicemen; China-Bhutan…
The Lidice Ratio
One to One HundredEven more at timesBut the OneIs the Only Focus One Hundred is a statisticOne Hundred heartsMinds, SoulsThousands of lovers A Pauper concedesA Billionaire succeedsIt might be timeTo…
50,000 new mothers in Gaza unable to breast feed due to lack of drinking water
NPR reminds us that "mothers who breastfeed need to drink extra water to be able to produce milk for their babies." Also lacking power to do surgery, in order to deliver…
Please Don’t Kill the Children
When humans embrace the dehumanization of others, we release our ugliest, most destructive selves. Dehumanization is a perverse force that propagates violence and justifies the lust for war and its…
The Roots of Radicalism and the Structure of Evil
My title is redundant for a reason, since the root of the word radical is the Latin word, radix, meaning root. For I mean to show how the use and misuse…
Impact of corruption on rural development can be much higher than is commonly believed
Recently I was in a very remote village to inquire about the impact made by of a very well-intentioned housing scheme of the government. There is no doubt that this…
District Rath Prabhari scheme- Calling for a public disclosure of correspondence between Cabinet Secretariat and the ECI
ToShri Rajiv Gauba Union Cabinet Secretary Dear Shri Gauba, Please refer to my letter of October 27, 2023, on the government engaging senior officers as “District Rath Prabharis” under their purview…
The consequences of apartheid in Israel and of US government support for such apartheid – Part 3 of 4
Fronts of conflict amongst Palestinians, USG double standards, and AIPAC’s undemocratic control over the US government We’ve been discussing the fronts of conflict in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, for while the…
Muddled Interventions: Haiti, the UN and Resolution 2699
A country broken by constant foreign interventions, its tyrannical regimes propped up by the back brace of the United States (when it wasn’t intervening to adjust it), marred by appalling…
Exterminate All the Brutes
All settler colonial projects, including Israel, reach a point when they embrace wholesale slaughter and genocide to eradicate a native population that refuses to capitulate. During the siege in Sarajevo,…
Genocidal Onslaught Of Gaza Not Yet Shocking Conscience Of The World Enough
Israel’s Zionists in Gaza, the West Bank, and Palestine at large, continue to indifferently slaughter innocent civilian Palestinian men, women, children and babies as if they are nothing more than…
The Twenty First Century Holocaust
When historians will write about the geopolitical conflicts of 2022-2023. Ukraine-Russia, Israel-Palestine will bear headlines. The role of western powers especially the United States will be debated. The unapologetic American…
War on Gaza: Humanity is being Destroyed by Madness of War and Inept Leadership
And we wonder why everyone’s so dysfunctional and self-destructive. ….We never really had a chance to build a healthy world. Our ancestors went from running away from monsters with sharp…
GAZACIDE
World’s largest concentration camp,Gaza’s two million suffering soulsall bear oppression’s brutal stamp,sad state, which Israel extols. That strip of ancient Palestinewas British Empire-occupieduntil Brit World War Two decline,when Zionism from…
Peace Movement May be Weak Today but Feelings of People for Peace are Strong
Every voice for peace is relevant, every voice for peace is needed. Even if it is only a child carrying a placard in a gathering for peace, even if it…
The consequences of apartheid in Israel and of US government support for such apartheid- Part 2 of 4. Hearing the varied voices of Zionism
The Israeli government’s systematic, unkind, unjust, and brutal discrimination against Palestinians routinely violates Palestinians’ human and legal rights and denies them the fulfillment of their human needs, not only for…
Twilit towns: A review of Transition Town Movement
Crises One can identify the present time as The Age of Crises. “The world system is riddled with crisis.”1 Crises in the areas of finance and banking, and environment-ecology have…
20,000 Toxic Sites in Sagging Arctic Permafrost
New studies show the Arctic heating up 4-times the overall rate of global warming. This startling rate in one of the most sensitive environments in the world could trigger toxic…
Biden’s Bungles over Gaza
The main press stable was keen to see the scrappy benefits of the 31-hour visit to Israel by US President Joe Biden. On National Public Radio (NPR), Scott Neuman expressed…
The Suffocating Occupation of Palestine Is Now a Series of War Crimes
On October 24, it became clear to the United Nations (UN) that the sustained bombardment of Gaza—which had already killed 6,500 people (including at least 35 UN employees)—had made this…
Resolving Israel’s Dilemma
Israel’s dilemma has been how to construct a racially pure state and extinguish the Palestinian presence in the country without the world noticing the genocide. It has found the solution…
Is the Left Dead in Kenya?
Kenya faces critical times today as the government of President Ruto moves full speed towards the agenda set by USA via IMF directives. The push on Kenya to turn ‘West”…
Why Memoirs of This Great Freedom Fighter Need More Attention
Several stories of courage and firm determination of four martyrs of Kakori case have become an important part of the legends of our freedom movement. This case is regarded as…
The consequences of apartheid in Israel and of US government support for such apartheid- Part 1 of 4. Tending the fronts of conflict
On Wednesday, October 25, 2023, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “Our war against Hamas is a test for all of humanity. It is a fight between the Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas axis…
Libya Tells Western Ambassadors To Go Home
Ambassadors of countries supporting Israel should leave Libya “immediately” and an embargo on oil and gas deliveries should be imposed if the “massacres” in Gaza continue, the Libyan parliament said…
Indian Prime Minister lacks the courage to Tell Netanyahu: ‘This is not an era of war’
Media reported extensively in 2022 – at the start of Russia-Ukraine conflict – that the Indian Prime Minister had a telephonic conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and with a…
A temporary truce between the ECI and the NDA government not to take up “Rath Prabhari” campaign in poll-bound States should not give rise to complacency about the future of civil services in India
ToShri Rajiv Gauba Union Cabinet Secretary Dear Shri Gauba, You must have closely followed the concerns expressed by some of us about the prudence on the part of the Central…
Communist Revolutionaries contest 40 Assembly constituencies in Telangana, and conduct an educative political campaign
The Unity Centre Of Communist Revolutionaries Of India (Marxist-Leninist) (UCCRI-ML), founded by Comrades DV Rao and Tarimela Nagi Reddy, is fielding candidates in about 40 constituencies out of a total…
The Day Guterres Became Relevant
The relevance given to a UN Secretary-General is often judged by the degree of controversy caused. In history, the most relevant are usually targeted. Dag Hammarskjöld, refusing to remain a…
Elections in Argentina: A Working Class Perspective
A few days before the October 22 elections in Argentina, almost 90 percent of the polls indicated that the winner would be Javier Milei, the “insane” candidate of the right—as…
What A Second Trumpocracy Would Mean
If he becomes the official nominee of the Republican Party in next year’s presidential race, Donald Trump will receive tens of millions of votes in the general election. He may…
Womb less Babies Don’t Count!
So, they put the oxymoron of a ' Constitutional Lawyer' into the US House of Representatives Speaker's Chair. Mike Johnson, looking so nerdy with his too neat attire , is…
The Amazing Indian Mind- Part 1
· In the land of “Atithi devo bhava,” to suggest that Pakistani cricket fans should not be treated poorly is to be labeled an anti-national and a “Pakistan Lover,” whatever…
Increasing concern about health and social impacts of loneliness and isolation
Although concern regarding loneliness has been increasing for some time, still some recently published statistics on the likely adverse impacts of loneliness and isolation have shocked many people. According to…
Humanitarian crisis worsens in Gaza
With Israel’s savage bombardment of the Gaza Strip continuing unabated, the humanitarian crisis faced by its 2.3 million residents has reached horrendous dimensions. In addition to an official death toll…
Blinken Asked Qatar To Change Al Jazeera’s Israel Coverage
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he’d asked the Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani to soften Al Jazeera’s coverage around Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza according to a report by the…
A climate of the unthinkable on a burning Earth
“The climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks” Wallace Smith Broecker Having turned a deaf ear to the basic laws of nature, ignoring the…
Sharon Murder case – A ‘caste killing’ disguised as a ‘love-hate’ murder in Kerala
The news that fuelled the newsrooms of Kerala last year in October has returned to the discussions once again as Greeshma R Nair, the prime accused in Sharon Raj's murder…
‘Human Animals’: The Sordid Language behind Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
“(Tutsis) are cockroaches. We will kill you.” Arabs are like “drugged cockroaches in a bottle.” The first quote was a line repeated frequently by the Radio Télévision Libre des Mille…
20 Days of Israel’s Gaza Massacre leaves 6,500 dead: End it now!
Israel’s genocidal assault against Palestinians is being ramped up to inhumane proportions. All masks are off about its intentions to completely annihilate the Palestinian people. Not only is Gaza under…
Olympics are not just about sports glory; organizers should plan to avoid potential social problems
It is official. India is in the race to host the 2036 Olympic Games. This must be making sports enthusiasts in the country very happy but Olympic Games with their…
Eleven Aspects of Palestine-Israel Conflict that Deserve More Attention
The scale of mortality, injuries, displacement, trauma and other forms of distress has been among the highest ever seen in recent times during just the first fortnight of the latest…
Israeli bombardment claims over 700 lives in 24 hours
Palestinian health ministry officials reported Tuesday that 704 Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes over the preceding 24 hours, making it the deadliest day since Israel’s bombardment of Gaza…
Obama Warns Israel
Former U.S. President Barack Obama has endorsed Israel’s right to defend against “wanton violence” by Hamas, but warned that a strategy that |ignores the human cost” would be counterproductive. In…
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