Imperialist sanctions stand as instrument of coercion, and is shrouded with lies. In recent years, using the measure of sanction has turned out as a standard response to international controversies.…
Teesta Setalvad is a civil rights activist and journalist based in Mumbai who is popularly known for taking up the cause of the 2002 Gujrat riots victims. She serves as the secretary…
On Monday, the World Health Organization issued a dire warning: Even after the relentless Israeli bombing that has left over 20,000 Gazans dead or missing, the death toll from infectious…
Shortly after the start of a four-day ceasefire in the war on Gaza, the prime ministers of Spain and Belgium, Pedro Sanchez and Alexander De Croo, appeared in a joint…
San Francisco’s third poet laureate, devorah major, speaks on Palestine and how poetry can help us connect as we navigate the violence of our world. Near the end of November…
Rational Questions Need Rational Answers How do you dismantle temptation and compulsion of evil from an egoistic sadistic mind? How do you prevent tyranny of evil causing moral, intellectual and…
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies While Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been frantically shuttling around the Middle East trying to stop the Israeli coflict in Gaza…
I’ve been arguing now for a year and a half that the enactment of bold new climate policies—bold enough to quickly drive US greenhouse-gas emissions down to zero—can succeed only…
Corruption of European Parliament members has been exposed. A Politico report – Inside Morocco’s efforts to corrupt the European Parliament – said: If there had not been a World Cup…
One could earn a tidy sum the number of times the word “sovereignty” has been uttered or mentioned in public statements and briefings by the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese. …
by Jeffrey Wagner and Dae-Han Song The United States, Japan, and South Korea will fully operationalize a missile warning system “by the end of December.” While justified as a means…
It is unlikely that COP 28 will ignore the stark and bitter reality of the failure to achieve adequate reduction in GHG emissions. The facts in this context are all…
A two-state solution, with both Israel and the newly formed nation of Palestine getting automatic membership of the European Union. Plus, a Marshall Plan-like initiative funded by the US, UK…
Call it what you will, a truce, a humanatarian ceasefire, a pause , in reality it is a defeat for the Zionist aparthied regime. After nearly 50 days of laying…
The recently concluded World Cup started poorly and ended in the same negative pulse. A stadium that could take 130000+ was close-to-empty for the inaugural match. Good organizers would not…
On any given day, about 465 people die on roads in India. And about three times that number is injured daily. If you are a pedestrian or drive a two-wheeler…
Humanity mourns! Israel mourns. Palestinian territories mourn. Why? It is a very long story! "Pro-Israel? Pro-Palestine? You can be both" was the title of an article at The Harvard Crimson, some time…
Ministry of Power should not force PSPCL to import coal in preference to PSPCL obtaining coal from its captive Pacchwara mine in Jharkhand ToShri Rajiv Gauba Cabinet Secretary Government of…
Rains and winds have intensified throughout the Gaza Strip since 17 November. Palestinians are facing the onset of winter without proper clothing, shelter and blankets. The sense of fear is palpable. Despite…
When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible…
No one does a stadium show like Roger Waters. The music, of course, is resplendent, but so too are the soundscape, the images, the giant sheep and pig, the lasers,…
by Mouna Hashem and Martha Mundy The United Arab Emirates is destroying the biodiversity of a Yemeni archipelago. Environmental destruction entails two intertwined processes: climate change and the destruction of biodiversity,…
Dear Pranshu, I didn’t know you before your suicide on November 21, 2023. I saw your Diwali reel in which you wore a saree – you looked beautiful. I don’t…
Ridley Scott’s latest Napoleonic-era endeavor is based on the life of arguably the world’s most-studied King, Napoleon Bonaparte. Of course, it is titled “Napoleon”; as many autobiographies do but it’s…
The nation heaved a big sigh of relief when the 41 workers trapped in the under-construction Silkyara-Barkot tunnel (Uttarkashi district of Uttarakhand) were finally rescued on November 28 after a…
The safe return of the 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel near Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand, is a matter of great satisfaction for the entire nation. Kudos to all those…
The book ‘Essays on the Changing Nature of the Indian State’ is a commentary on contemporary India. The book tries to capture such nuances of the changing nature of the…
Arun Mallik, who was over sixty, was a guard in our society, which was a gated community in Delhi. He was often seen pushing the larger vehicles to rearrange them…
The classical Odia literature, art, architecture, stone carvings, and its historical and cultural heritage, along with distinct philosophical musings, stand as testaments to Odia renaissance of the state, society, and…
'A Library is a thought in cold storage' This adage by Herbert Samuel ( British Statesman 1870-1963) sounds prophetic but as of now it is not going to have any…
The Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS, Mumbai) recently organized the 22nd public lecture in memory of Dr. Asghar Ali Engineer. The event, centred around the theme "Secularism…
The deportation of several hundred thousand Afghan refugees from Pakistan at a very short notice in harsh winter conditions has been condemned internationally by several leading humanitarian and human rights…
The war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas is costing Israel at least $269 million a day and is expected to hit the country’s economy harder than previous conflicts, ratings…
Can a song trigger a murder?Can a poem spark a riot?Can a book divide a people? These lines are from the back cover of a newly released book by Kunal…
Netanyahu: Now that a temporary truce is on, brief me about developments at the media front. War Cabinet Member (WCM): Sir, our hit rate is 100% successful. Till 23.11.2023 we…
The President has lost his marbles!They crouch behind the pillows of his brain,Waiting, coiling for the perfect momentTo strike! Or… slink away,Fluttering in the gasping world….The Lady-in-Waiting is likewise befuddled;She…
The fear does not leave you during a truce. On one recent evening, the explosions were so intense that I could not help trembling in terror. My mother grasped my…
It was a pleasant surprise to see former Prime Minister V P Singh on the front pages of the Manustream Media. Though, they would never have given him space in…
Development cannot be a mindless process when it comes to the mountains. What we are witnessing is a slow man made death of the fragile Himalayas. Silkyara-Danda Tunnel Collapse On…
Three days into the first letup in Israel’s two-month-long bombardment and invasion of Gaza, film crews have begun to document the evidence of the deliberate mass murder of Gaza’s civilian…
When those of us of a certain age were in school, we learned that the Monroe Doctrine committed the United States to protect the independence of Latin American nations, which…
The accident at the Silkyara tunnel where 41 workers got trapped, has exposed not only vulnerability of such happenings but also poor state of emergency preparedness to deal with such…
This excerpt is being published from the Preface of the book "Post-Hindu India" written for the new edition by the author published here with permission from publishers. The launch of the…
The Great Nicobar Island mega project and the recent amendment to the Forest (Conservation) Act in violation of the Supreme Court's directions pose a serious threat to India's forests and…
Faced with the gut-wrenching horrors occurring in the Ukraine, Ethiopia, Sudan, Myanmar and the Middle East, it’s hard to fathom that an even more calamitous global tragedy is already upon…
Imagine this: humanity in its time on Earth has already come up with two distinct ways of destroying this planet and everything on it. The first is, of course, nuclear…
Did you know that there was an international conference held in France on November 9 under the title ‘International Humanitarian Conference for Gaza’s Civilian Population’? According to the French foreign…
In Gaza, a family’s world can be crushed in an instant. On 10 October, Israeli warplanes attacked the home of the Ahmed family. Israa Ahmed managed to survive. She was…
Israel’s war on Gaza has actually been a war on Gaza’s hospitals. Just 10 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals are still operational. One in particular has been in the headlines. On 23…
Latin America and the world were stunned to learn that on November 19 2023, Argentina’s most extreme right-wing politician, Javier Milei, had been elected president with a hefty 56 per…
The four-day truce is here, and every sane person in this world is welcoming it. Equally welcome is the exchange of hostages for prisoners. From what we hear, humanitarian aid…
A large number of daily-wage workers gather every day in Haiderpur (Delhi) on a side of a busy road. They wait here till a contractor or other employer comes to…
Throughout these historic days since Oct 7, I have sat transfixed before my laptop screen flipping among three live continuous TV news streams, namely Al Jazeera Arabic, Al Jazeera English…
Barrelakka (Buffalo Sister), whose original name is Sirisha, is just 25 years old unemployed poorest of the poor girls from Kollapur constituency in South Telangana. She is an independent candidate…
Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Gaza Wael al-Dahdouh was live on air when he heard the worst possible news: His family had been attacked by Israel. His wife Amna, son Mahmoud, daughter…
On Friday morning, a fragile truce came into effect in Gaza. After nearly 50 days under constant attack, the truce gives us a little break. But in this war-torn territory,…
Brothers and sisters and compañer@s: I am going to try to explain to you how we reorganize autonomy, that is, the new structure of Zapatista autonomy. I will explain more…
On November 25 one of America’s most iconic shopping days, Black Friday this year was affected by protests across the country calling for a permanent ceasefire in Israel’s war on…
It is around 10 in the morning and the number of workers at the Sigalpur labor chowk in Shalimar Bagh area of Delhi is increasing. As a worker Munna says—“The…
On October 27, 2022, the Union Environment Ministry gave hush-hush clearance for deforesting 131 sq. km of forests in Great Nicobar Island to accommodate a mega industrial project, a pet…
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