The Biden administration Monday condemned an ongoing investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of senior Israeli figures who masterminded the Gaza genocide. Israeli media sources reported in recent days…
In one of the strangest contradictions, while the US's support for Israel has always been unwavering, driven largely by many influential supporters of Israel, a section of the American Jewish…
Conventional understanding is that when wars end there should be peace. Only this can create the conditions in which the enormous damage caused by any war can be repaired, in…
RSS which claims to be the biggest organization of Hindus in the world is, in fact, a unique organization which trains its cadres in manufacturing and spreading lies in the…
BHOPAL: Perturbed over sharp fall in vote percentage in the last (second) phase of polling in various Lok Sabha constituencies in Madhya Pradesh both the BJP and Congress have decided…
When the majority of human society feels social stress, it does one of three things—1) accept stress out of a feeling of helplessness, 2) move away from the stressors in…
It is part of common sense today that we must at any cost preserve and protect trees to ensure our survival.BJP leaders too sometimes repeat this proposition like a spell.Yet…
We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with members of the Columbia University community demanding that the University divest from Israel’s US-backed genocide in Gaza and the West Bank. We write…
Mass graves, the criminalization of dissent, systematic slaughter glorified as self-defense, resisting students making history. Yes, the current nightmare does seem reminiscent of 1968, the year kaleidoscopic change burst forth…
Daifallah, a one-year-old baby, killed in an Israeli strike on Rafah, is trending on the X platform. Just for posterity, his name is Daifallah Mohammad Taha, one of the countless…
On April 25, along Melbourne’s arterial Swanston Street, the military parade can be witnessed with its bannered, medalled upholstery, crowds lost in metals, ribbons and commemorative decor. Many, up on…
The territorialisation of land has not only resulted in a world structured around the concept of land as private property but has also facilitated the formation of territories at various…
In March, India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, said at an election rally in Arunachal Pradesh that previous governments had not cared for states that sent only two representatives to the…
In this three part series, we take a look at the economic situation in the country, in early 2024, in the context of the claims being made by the Modi…
Women and sexual minorities duped – Subject to a state of perpetual oppression. What they promised: What is actually happening: What are the reasons for this: Eddelu Karnataka is an independent…
On Friday, the US Defense Department announced it was sending its largest weapons order to Ukraine to date, totaling $6 billion, after President Joe Biden signed into law a $95…
Students across United States in campuses from Columbia to Emory to California are protesting in solidarity with Palestine. Protests expressing anguish Israeli genocide are now spilling over to university campuses…
The Jewish Maariv daily based on senior sources says Benjamin Netanyahu is deeply worried the ICC is on the verge of issuing a warrant for his arrest and other senior politicians in…
ToShri Rajiv Kumar Chief Election Commissioner Shri Gyanesh Kumar Election Commissioner Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu Election Commissioner Dear Dr Sukhbir Singh Sandhu, S/Shri Gyanesh Kumar/ Rajiv Kumar, I hope that the Commission, with its…
This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological…
What is conflict about? The Zionist Israeli-Arab Palestinian conflict today is one of if not the most significant global security problems to be dealt with.[1] However, this conflict is historically…
Degrowth Is the Only Sane Survival Plan Something must be up. Otherwise, why would scientists keep sending us those scary warnings? There has been a steady stream of them in…
A foreboding article was published on April 24. It was pointed out that China had provided a berth to a Russian ship Angara that is purportedly “tied to North Korea-Russia…
In the early seventh century in rural England, the process of territorialisation has played a major role in the transformation of land into private property in its institutionalised form. This…
The Nation Besieged by Few Generals and Political Monsters Pakistan for over 76 years lost its essence of national freedom which was achieved by a people-oriented movement for independence from…
While observing the 50th anniversary of the Chipko movement for saving forests many inspiring stories were related but we did not hear much about the highly inspiring Appiko movement of…
Reservations Murdered- Poisoning the plate of the oppressed communities What they promised: What actually happened next: But instead, the BJP has done the following… What are the reasons for this:…
In this second part of our review of the economic situation of the country in early 2024, we take a look at the unprecedented unemployment crisis gripping the country. Deepening…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent comments on opposition parties “formula” for government formation may certainly be viewed as a crucial eye-opener on several fronts. While addressing an election rally in…
Dear President Shafik, We are a group of scientists and academics based at universities across the world. We are writing to express our dismay at your decision to invite the…
For majoritarian Nationalism communal, divisive propaganda has been a major plank for increasing their hold in the electoral arena through promoting Hate. The module of Hindu nationalist politics has been…
Modi’s charisma is a myth, and BJP banks on corrupt political families to make a dent in the South Modi embraces Yeddyurappa, former CM of Karnataka, who was earlier expelled…
The Constitutional referendum held this April 21 in Ecuador has been a last resource that the country’s reactionary government has resorted to. Although one might think of a referendum as…
The Israeli authorities, in their campaign of remorseless killing, doctoring and adjusting the numbers of the Palestinian populace for whatever future awaits, have been found wanting on accusations that Hamas…
Popular Iranian dissident, rapper and hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, a 33-year-old former factory worker known for his protest songs and social media posts critical of the government of the Islamic…
Apart from causing large-scale distress the prolonged Ukraine conflict also has very dangerous possibilities of escalation. There do not seem to be any visible efforts on the part of Ukraine…
This is concerning the SC decision reported by Prashant Bhushan jee on X: Prashant Bhushan@pbhushan1 Since EVMs & VVPATS have programmable chips in which a malicious program can be loaded…
In this three part series, we take a look at the economic situation in the country, in early 2024, in the context of the claims being made by the Modi…
For a very long time, I was absolutely certain that India could never be ruled by a Hitler. My argument was that there are already too many Hitlers in the…
How sweeping can the reach of imperialism become, and what extreme forms can it take? Can it even take such an atrocious form as to decide what people of other…
On 19 April 2024, the Philippine Supreme Court issued a cease-and-desist order on the commercial propagation of genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice and GM eggplant in the country. The…
In the current era of excessive social-media consumption, the so-called content-creator and influencer is king - or queen. Increasingly, we seem to have offloaded our abilities of social, political and…
The Supreme Court in in its order on 23rd April 2024 has taken the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to task for its alleged unethical conduct over recommending overpriced drugs and…
It was supposed to be a miracle that unfortunately didn’t last for the Gaza baby Rouh (meaning life) Joudeh died four days after the doctors brought her out of the…
In helping Adani make huge profits through the Dharavi slum redevelopment project in Mumbai the authorities are harming public transport and also shooting themselves in the foot. In a…
Mass pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States are developing with great intensity. The protests, now in their second week, show no signs of abating despite the bloody…
The search for the real culprits behind the Partition of India in 1947 seems to be an endless exercise. It is despite the fact that there is no dearth of…
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to wake” (James Joyce) Figure 1. The five mass extinctions in Earth History. The rate of the current rise of greenhouse…
Respected Sir, The data of citizens who cast their votes in Phase 1 and phase 2 of the 2024 General Elections must have surprised you. Millions upon millions of voters…
Gone are the days when India used to inspire the world, especially the global south, as a moral leader. Gone are also the days when Indian leaders such as Gandhi…
The outcome of the Palestine vote and the American veto at the United Nations Security Council on April 18 was predictable. Though European countries are becoming increasingly supportive of a…
Students at more than 40 universities and colleges in the United States and around the world have lit a fire under the Palestine solidarity movement by setting up encampments on…
The geriatric ideology of feudalism, patriarchy, nationalism, religious culture, market led consumerism, monetised society and capitalism continues to propagate the notion that contemporary youths and students are deviants, lazy, unproductive,…
It is unfortunate that column space should be dedicated to Britain’s shortest termed prime minister and, arguably, one of its most imbecilic and cringingly juvenile. But given that some people…
Due to the immense suffering of the people of Gaza, the attention of the entire world has understandably been concentrated more on Gaza lately. There is also the risk of…
It’s never been so bad. The Great Barrier Reef, which is one of nature’s most iconic mosaics of biodiversity, is on the ropes because of extreme global warming. Coral bleaching…
In a global context where tropical rainforests play a critical role in biodiversity conservation and climate regulation, these ecosystems are severely threatened by expanding agribusiness and logging activities. This poses significant risks…
There are several exercises in extremes playing out in India right now. Nearly a billion people are voting in elections that will last into early June, braving record-high temperatures to cast ballots. Against this…
Massive Corruption– Unimaginable organized Criminal Mafia What they promised: What happened next: What are the reasons for this: Eddelu Karnataka is an independent civil society platform and campaign.It is not affiliated…
Mainstream Political Party Manifestoes fall short of addressing severe agrarian crisis and livelihood concerns of small, marginal farmers, fishers and agri workers! 26th April 2024: As the country is in…
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