Housing, Not Handcuffs
by Liz Theoharis & Shailly Gupta Barnes On April 22nd, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case that focuses on whether unhoused — the term…
May 2024
Exclusion of outdoor and informal workers in climate change and heat action policy is condemnable: Ensure Climate Justice & Labour Rights Now!
NAPM demands urgent government action to protect millions of outdoor workers from extreme heat and heatwaves, declaration of heatwaves as Climatic Disaster, and provision of disaster allowance to financially-affected workers…
Politics & Culture – As Business Racket
After taking the duo of Ram Dev and Balakrishnan a few notches down through a harrowing couple of rounds of severe judicial scrutiny on their crime of putting out false…
International Criminal Court prosecutor charges Netanyahu with “murder” and “extermination” of civilians
On Monday, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan accused…
The Futility of War
Alexander and Monks When Alexander asked a group of Jain philosophers why they were paying so little attention to him, they replied - “King Alexander, every man can…
Put Labor Last: Traitorous Australian Labor Government Deceives Australians For US & Genocidal Apartheid Israel
The key ethos of Humanity is Kindness and Truth but in the context of the horrific ongoing Gaza Genocide by Apartheid Israel these 2 core moral imperatives are grossly violated…
Resisting US-India Agri-Imperialism
A “high-powered US trade delegation” recently visited India to “explore opportunities in the country's huge agribusiness sector and further promote American products among India’s rising middle class.” So reads the…
The Assange Case: A Flicker of Hope in the UK High Court
It was faint, but there was more than just a flicker of hope. In the tormented (and tormenting) journey the WikiLeaks founder and publisher, Julian Assange, has endured, May 20,…
The Slow-Motion Execution of Julian Assange Continues
The ruling by the High Court in London permitting Julian Assange to appeal his extradition order leaves him languishing in precarious health in a high-security prison. That is the point.…
From the History of Israeli−Palestinian Conflict: The First Palestinian Intifada against the State of Israel (1987−1993) and its Political Consequences
The meaning of intifada The Arabic word intifada means “shaking off” but in the political language as a term, it means “uprising”. More precisely, this term refers to the two…
Resisting With Your Shopping Cart: How Consumer Choice Fuels Pandemics and Destroys Rainforests
Imagine a world where your everyday purchases contribute to the spread of deadly diseases and the destruction of irreplaceable forests. This isn’t a dystopian science fiction series —it’s actually happening…
A simple, practical solution to save harvested crop from untimely rain
Here Is a report the like of which appears again and again, every year, across India. Unseasonal rains damage paddy crops in Telangana Heavy rain was reported in different parts…
Dear White Friends: Can You Smell the Yellow Roses of Dier al-Balah?
by Priti Gulati Cox with Stan Cox One of the first things that I heard from people when I immigrated to the United States from the Global South in early…
#WeThePeopleMatter: The centrality of ‘We the People’ today
Ongoing elections 2024 Between 19 April and 01 June, around 1-billion Indian people are voting to constitute India’s 18th Parliament. During the election campaigning, in his quest for 370/400 seats,…
Weaponising Music
Away from the watchful monitoring of electronic and print media, across India’s dusty and sleepy towns a genre of popular culture is clandestinely seizing the public imagination. Acerbic lyrics laced…
Palestine, Western Power and the Transition to a Multipolar Global Order
“In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is…
India’s “Schrodinger Moment” On the Fourth of June
Schrodinger’s thought experiment Erwin Schrodinger (1887-1961) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1933. In 1935, he posited a thought experiment – later coming to be known as “Schrodinger’s…
Emerging Technologies Accentuate the Already Very Serious Threat of Nuclear Weapons
While very serious life-threatening conditions have existed at the planetary level for several decades due to the accumulation of nuclear weapons, a number of emerging technologies are aggravating this danger…
Social Media and the Post-Truth Society
We are living in a society where every day, we find out that whatever we had been doing, we had been doing it wrong. From narratives about a historical civilization…
Black MAGA Is Still MAGA
Consider Donald Trump to be in a racial bind when it comes to election 2024. After all, he needs Black voters to at least defect from Joe Biden in swing…
China extends a warm welcome to the Indian youth delegation
Relations between India and China, which have had the most friendly neighbourly relations for thousands of years, have been at a low ebb for some time now. Yes! it was…
Gautam Navlakha’s letter on release from custody
I wish to thank the Supreme Court for upholding the bail granted to me by the Bombay High Court. It proved to be a long wait but well worth it.…
BJP Independent of RSS: Are You Joking Mr. Nadda?
The president of BJP in conversation with journalists, Liz Mathew and P Vaidyanathan Iyer (The Indian Express, Delhi, May 18, 2024) claimed that “RSS is a cultural organisation and we…
76th Palestinian Nakba: Commemoration, Resistance, Liberation
Palestinian activists and their supporters rallied on May 18 at the National Mall on a wet and dreary day in observance of the 76th anniversary of the Nakba — catastrophe,…
Ignoring Warnings, Risks of AI Weapons Continue to Increase
Recent tragic experiences in Gaza have confirmed the fears of those scientists who have been warning about the use of AI and robotics in weapon systems and warfare. The use…
Laws: Plato’s Second Best State
The Laws: The Second Best State The Laws is Plato’s last work on political philosophy. He was still working on it at the time of his death. Plato authored the Republic as…
Territorialisation of Citizenship Rights
Working people have historically fought against various forms of oppression, including feudalism, capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and religious fundamentalism, to advance democracy and secure citizenship rights. The anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles…
Arise! Prisoners of Hunger (Jago Anashana Bandi Otho Re Joto)
(An English translation of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Bengali version of The Internationale from 1927) [Current translation by and copyright © Monish R Chatterjee (2024)] Arise! Ye prisoners of…
Are Hindus in Danger due to rising Muslim Population?
As the election season is in progress the divisive propaganda is also peaking. Chief propagandist of the ruling BJP is Prime Minister Modi himself. In these elections his narrative has…
Communalism Overtakes Constitution
(This long article of 2013 was published in the form of a booklet in 2014. While the country's Prime Minister is going to extremes in the election campaign and spewing…
International Court of Justice hearings expose “coordinated plan aimed at the destruction of the essential foundations of Palestinian life”
On Thursday and Friday, the International Court of Justice, located in The Hague, held emergency hearings in the pending case brought by the government of South Africa accusing Israel of…
Gaza and the war of attrition
After 10 days of fighting in Gaza the Palestinian resistance have destroyed 100 Israeli military vehicles that included tanks, large-scale bulldozers and troop carriers. This is in addition to tens…
Healthcare challenges of the elderly: Insurance-based system has failed to meet their needs
The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI), has asked health insurance companies to abolish the age limit of 65 years and provide it to everyone, regardless of their…
Violation of right without a remedy: Blatant misuse of ruling power
The Supreme Court has supported the law regarding arrests. However, the misuse of arrest powers against journalists and political opponents, like in the case of NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha, is…
Plato: the second best way of ruling – The Statesman (The Politicus)
Introduction Plato’s Republic, considered being the foundational text of the western Political Philosophy, is a work of a poetic flight with the youthful imagery and idealism of a young philosopher from…
A Resolve So Bold, A Cause So Pure
Sons and daughters in faraway lands, give promise to justice, a resolve so bold,White, black, and brown speak to power, in defiance, their unity refuses to fold, Then, there are…
Promising the Impossible: Blinken’s Out of Tune Performance in Kyiv
Things are looking dire for the Ukrainian war effort. Promises of victory are becoming even hollower than they were last summer, when US President Joe Biden could state with breathtaking…
Permafrost Showdown
"Deep below the glistening surface of a frozen Arctic lake, something is bubbling—something that could cause global warming to accelerate beyond all previous projections… Now the freezer door is opening,…
Procter & Gamble, Mondelēz, and Nestlé Are Among 10 of the Leading Consumer Brands Driving Global Deforestation
Despite corporate commitments, deforestation rates remain high, and community land conflicts continue. Since the turn of the century, there has been a consistent average annual loss of 3 to 4 million…
Education and Consciousness under Techno Feudalism
Education stands on the twin pillars of essentialist and emancipatory consciousness. Education, in terms of skills, qualifications, grades, marks, and employability, reflects the essentialist criteria of consciousness, which are crucial…
Supreme Court Decision and Strong Media Comment Indicate Growing Consensus on Injustice Done to Prabir Purkayastha and NewsClick
The welcome extended by several organizations of journalists as well civil liberties organizations to the Supreme Court’s decision on granting bail to Prabir Purkayastha as well as strong supportive comments…
AiNNI confirms the NHRC’s Second Deferral by GANHRI and an NHRC to be led by a Women from June 2024 with no men as its member
This is in relation to the news that has been published as regards the second deferral of the NHRCl’s accreditation before the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI). …
Israel expands Rafah slaughter
Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant announced Thursday that the bloody onslaught on Gaza will be expanded. With over 600,000 people having fled Gaza’s southernmost city since the ground operation began…
Breakthrough: Australian Labor Senator Fatima Payman Condemns Jewish Israeli Gaza Genocide, Human Rights Denial & Occupation
Under Labor (presently in government) or the Coalition (presently in opposition) Zionist-subverted, Zionist-perverted and US lackey Australia is second only to America as a fervent supporter of racist and mendacious…
Lawyers’ complaint to CJI unjustified, observes Mohan V Katarki
Mohan Katarki is a Senior Advocate designated by the Supreme Court of India. He is the Honorary Visiting Professor of Law at Bangalore University’s Law College. Katarki is a well…
LGBTQIA Community and Muslims in India Treated with Hatred by Indian Prime Minister
Both the largest minority communities – LGBTQIA members said to be 80-100 millions as per reference in Supreme Court judgement on gay sex delivered in 2018 and the Muslim community…
US universities have been in news, but high school conditions also need attention
US universities have been in the news recently for three reasons, all of which are worrying and are also related to each other. Firstly, recent protests in the context of…
The United States Assembles the Squad Against China
In early April 2024, the navies of four countries—Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and the United States—held a maritime exercise in the South China Sea. Australia’s Warramunga, Japan’s Akebono, the Philippines’…
Origin of Abuse and its Ramifications in the Age of Digital Revolution
Etymologically, the term "abuse" has its roots in both French (abus) and Latin (abūsus). Historically, "abuse" has been employed as both a noun and a verb since the Middle English…
How Can People Actually Protect Their Privacy in an Era of Total Digital Surveillance?
Governments and private entities have steadily eroded privacy on the internet. The trend toward internet functions centralizing within national borders and fragmenting internationally reinforces the need to safeguard both openness…
Anger and the MAGA Movement
An acquaintance who hails from the same New Jersey town as I do spends his free weekends crawling through the woods on his stomach as part of a firearms training…
PUDR welcomes the release of NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha
PUDR welcomes the release of NewsClick editor Prabir Purkayastha and the long overdue reminder to law enforcing agencies to respect constitutionally guaranteed rights. People’s Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR) welcomes…
Condemn the Deaths of Two Children Caused by the Mortar Shells Fired by the Indian state’s Paramilitary in Bijapur
On 12th May 2024, two children, Laxman and Boti Oyam from Gurga village, Bijapur district were unfortunately killed in an explosion after they unknowingly triggered an unexploded mortar shell buried…
Biden pledges $1 billion in additional military aid, as new report accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza
The Biden administration intends to dispatch more than $1 billion of military equipment to Israel so that it can continue the genocide against the Palestinians. The military package will include…
The Battle For Gaza Begins in Jabalia
The war is intensifying with the Palestinian resistance groups joining together to defeat the Israeli army The battle for Jabalia is raging. This is the fifth day. Despite its onslaught…
Redefining Literature and Its Relevance
What is literature? What are its tags or insignias of identification? These questions are often mooted about literature and its artistic merit. Defining literature is a somewhat hopeless and vexing…
Making of the Indian Constitution
The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of India took place in the constitution Hall, New Delhi on Monday the 9th December, 1946 at eleven of the clock. Acharya J.B.…
A Brief History of the Origins of the Love Jihad Conspiracy Theory
Love Jihad is a propaganda that accuses Muslim men for converting Hindu women to Islam, using money, and are sometimes accused of alluring women hiding their real identity. It’s been…
A Brutal Punishment: The Sentencing of David McBride
Sometimes, it’s best not to leave the issue of justice to the judges. They do what they must: consult the statutes, test the rivers of power, and hope that their…
Release of News Click Editor Prabir Purkayastha Upholds Free Media
The Bench of India’s Supreme Court terming arrest of journalist and founder of Newsclick Mr. Prabir Purkayastha by Delhi Police as invalid under unlawful Unlegl Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) and…
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