At least 129 people have been killed in the last five days of Israeli shelling and artillery fire in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, where the Israel Defense Forces earlier this week…
Two names are most evocative names among the Indian revolutionaries of freedom struggle. Both were comrade-in-arms. C-in-C of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army Chandershekhar Azad was the Commander-in-chief of Hindustan…
In a short six-minute address before reporters after meeting privately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris, soon-to-be the Democratic nominee for president,…
[Prefatory Note: An earlier version of thiss Open Letter to Kamala Harris was published by CounterPunch on July 23, 2024; so many developments have occurred in recent days as to make…
Australia under a racist, unprincipled, climate criminal, war criminal, Zionist-subverted and cravenly US lackey Labor Government has betrayed the World in relation to the key existential threats to Humanity from…
On Friday evening, the world’s attention will lock in on the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games as they return to Paris, the birthplace of Pierre de Coubertin, the…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Washington, DC, is more than a diplomatic formality. The visit comes after 10 months of a genocidal war Netenyahu doesn’t want to end, and…
Occupied Palestinian Territory - About 10% of the Gaza Strip’s population has been killed, injured, or is missing due to the 293-day genocide carried out by Israel in the Strip, ongoing…
Satellite data from the European climate monitoring service Copernicus confirms that Monday and Tuesday were the hottest days on Earth so far recorded by the program. Temperatures Wednesday will likely…
The International Court of Justice overwhelmingly decided last week that Israel is no longer legally entitled to act as the occupying power in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem, noting that its further presence…
There’s no mention of their duty to the people in the oath of office that members of Congress take. It says they will support and defend the Constitution from all…
At a time when most of the discussion is about who will win most medals, on the margins of the Paris Olympic Games several social groups have intensified efforts to…
Caracas. On July 28, the people of Venezuela will go to the polls to conduct the sixth presidential election since the 1999 Bolivarian Constitution. The two previous elections (2013 and…
At the end of the last century, hoping to drive the United States from Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam’s holiest sites, al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden sought to draw…
Demands dropping of fabricated and false UAPA proceedings immediately!! Delhi & Raipur: The PUCL National and Chhattisgarh State branch, strongly condemns the early morning raid today, 25th July, 2024, by the…
The richest 1 percent have amassed $42 trillion in new wealth over the past decade, nearly 34 times more than the entire bottom 50 percent of the world’s population, according…
Targeting a school during a war could be justified or, at least, argued to have been a mistake. But striking over 120 schools, killing and wounding thousands of civilians sheltered…
The Indian elite has once again proven that when it comes to choosing between saving lives and throwing lavish parties, there's no contest. As the country grapples with heatwaves, floods,…
No steps to enhance redistribution to address alarming inequality in the country The Right to Food Campaign is deeply disappointed to note that in the budget announcement for 2024-25 rather…
On Tuesday, Palestinian factions in Beijing signed yet another unity agreement to overcome 17 years of internal division between the two main Palestinian political factions, Hamas and Fatah. The deal, of which…
As war continues to devastate Gaza and its people, we learnt last week that a variant of poliovirus has been detected in the region. The virus was isolated in six sewage samples…
Geneva - The International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) has received dozens of requests forwritten amicus curiae observations on issues related to its jurisdiction and admissibility of the case in Palestine. These efforts aim to prevent the Court from issuing arrest warrants for Israeli military and political…
Being in Washington, D.C., the heart of the beast, meant that establishing and maintaining our encampment was a formidable task. Situated just a 15-minute walk from the State Department and…
Abstract Introduction Remembered histories make up our inner lives, and that of our families and communities. Happy and joyful memories, dimly-remembered and unexplained events as children have a way of…
Israel’s controversial and unpopular Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived earlier this week in Washington after having accepted a June invitation from Speaker Mike Johnson to address a joint session of…
Antonio Gramsci was not a professional philosopher. His intellect was refreshingly situated within an inherent bias towards the common people, the 'subaltern' classes, particularly the working class. He argued that…
While wars are becoming more and more destructive and the possibility of an all-destructive nuclear war also very much continues to exist, the urgency of achieving much greater cooperation for…
Hundreds of demonstrators were arrested inside a U.S. House building on Tuesday while protesting the American government's continued support for Israel's assault on Gaza and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's forthcoming speech to…
On Tuesday morning, it was announced that Kimberly Cheatle, director of the United States Secret Service, was resigning her post. Cheatle, appointed by President Biden in September 2022, had spent…
This book deserves to be an inspiration for all freedom loving people in Kenya and internationally. In these days we see brave people in action against the reactionary regime of…
Mr Ranjeet Kumar AgarwalPresidentInstitute of Chartered Accounts of IndiaICAI Bhawan, New Delhi 700 002 Subject: Feminists in Resistance (FIR) condemns the shamefully misogynistic, terrifying, discriminatory, regressive attitude of the Institute…
The directive of the RSS-BJP government issued on dated July 9, 2024, stated that the government had “reviewed” instructions issued in 1966, 1970, and 1980, “and it has been decided…
While the Prime Minister was highlighting India's commitment to the conservation of ancient heritage, JCBs were flattening an archaeological mound outside Pithori Darwaja containing precious archaeological evidence in his hometown,…
Palestinian Territory - The Israeli army has killed 70 Palestinians and wounded 200 others, mostly children and women, in less than 12 hours in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza…
Unless the GOP in Congress has a last-minute rethinking, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel will enjoy his record-setting fourth address to a Joint Session of Congress on July 24, 2024. Scores…
Taking nuclear disarmament seriously is not only an existential imperative at this very moment, but an obligation of all state parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The following speech was…
On Wednesday, July 24, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver his record-setting fourth address to a Joint Session of Congress. Here are 10 compelling reasons why he…
About 400 Jewish-American activists are currently, Tuesday, inside one of the buildings of the US Congress in Capitol Hill protesting the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington.…
The most worrying aspect of some extremely costly and threatening conflicts in recent times has been that despite their high costs, these seem to be getting more and more prolonged.…
Rural peoples’ movements and communities demand the shutdown of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Over the past 80 years, imperialist governments and their transnational corporations (TNCs) have…
“We must not harbour any illusion about the present government being weak. It will be in an offensive mode more than what it was in its earlier avatar. On the…
by Ramya Ramanathan and Shashi Singh The shadow of communalism lurks everywhere and to such an extent that it has figured quite prominently in the arts and literature of South…
The recent order requiring eateries in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to display name plates — which has been stayed by the Supreme Court — has drawn chilling comparisons to apartheid-era…
India will and should never forget that infamous night of 25/26 June 1975, when, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had a state of emergency declared all over the country.…
India is an agrarian country, but today Indian agriculture is facing a significant threat. The continuous use of various types of chemical fertilizers and pesticides is leading to soil degradation,…
The relationship between BJP and RSS is a mystery ordinary mortals cannot penetrate.The RSS supremo seemed to be firing salvos in a direction that covered the BJP headquarters.There has not…
Having been endorsed as the only viable candidate to battle Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential elections, Joe Biden was subsequently browbeaten and harried into leaving the way open for…
Geneva - The sharp decline in the human rights situation in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Emirati government’s cultivation of a climate of repression is gravely concerning. Euro-Med Monitor condemns the government’s violations of fundamental rights, such as…
The International Court of Justice is the supreme court of the United Nations, but it is a mockery of law and of justice, because no matter how badly a Judge…
On July 23, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget (2024-25) which highlights the priorities of Hindutva politics of economic growth sans human development. The Modi-led BJP government,…
-As the Supreme Court delivers a split verdict in the GMOs-related PILs, Coalition for a GM-Free India asks for the implementation of the common observations and conclusions of both Hon’ble…
The death toll in Israel’s war of annihilation in Gaza speaks to a policy of shoot to kill, a policy whose existence the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) denies. But several…
Israel committed a massacre in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, on Monday. At least 70 Palestinians were killed and hundreds wounded. The Israelis opened fire on people who were evacuating areas in eastern…
"79-year-old Ibrahim Abu Al-Atta said he lost his soul when the mosque was destroyed as he was present in ts construction stage 15 years ago." When the young men echoed…
The low turnout in the past presidential and parliamentary elections warned the clerics in Tehran that their political base has substantially shrunk. To deal with this problem, they passed Masoud…
Politically, socially and also economically there seems to be no logic behind the order given in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh as per which shop owners were to reveal…
The freedom movement of India is a very inspiring chapter in the history of India as well as the history of several liberation movements. However several analysts of the freedom…
As a background author gives a lion’s eye view of the revolutionary movements during freedom struggle. Though he refers to other revolutionary movements like Ghadar party also, but that was…
On the issue of Akbarnagar, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his government are misleading the citizens of Lucknow and the state. The Chief Minister's statement that illegal encroachers were removed…
Over the past three decades, the beautiful valley of Kashmir has stood at the heart of a prolonged and multifaceted conflict. This region, known for its stunning landscapes and rich…
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