Longing for Hypocrisy
“Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays virtue. “ Indeed. Take for instance the outpouring of rhetorical grief after George Floyd’s brutal murder. Leaders of companies of all sizes instructed their…
January 2025
S.P. Udayakumar Wins Nuclear-Free Future Award
TAKOMA PARK, MD, January 14, 2025-- The 2025 Nuclear-Free Future Awards will this year honor individuals from Brazil, India, Navajo country, the United States and Zimbabwe for their achievements in…
Widening the cracks in Israel’s war machine
Trump's threat that all hell will break loose if Israeli hostages are not released by the time he takes office is something he will probably hold fast to. A Palestinian…
Framing and targeting of Baccha Singh and Manish Azad
On January 3, NIA Ranchi interrogated Baccha Singh in case FIR Number RC-03/2023/NIA/RNC and later arrested him. Baccha Singh was earlier targeted and fabricated in another “Conspiracy Case” when his…
Jammu and Kashmir: The fault lines of BJP and the Gen-Z Bakhshis
Since August 5, 2019, the central government has actively fostered new fault lines in Jammu and Kashmir, with the most prominent and delusional examples being the Reorganization Act and the…
Fifty days of Dallewal’s fast: The mode of resistance must change
It is a good development that the Samyuykt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has indicated a supportive attitude towards the farmers' resistance movement being carried out under the joint aegis of the…
About 200 Israeli Soldiers Refuse to Continue Serving in Gaza
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Around 200 Israeli soldiers have signed a letter stating they’d stop serving in Gaza if the government didn’t secure a ceasefire. The soldiers acknowledged their…
Palestinian Authority kills its own people, proves loyalty to Israel
It has been over a month since the Palestinian Authority launched a deadly military operation in the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank. So far, at least 14 people,…
Sanctioning The ICC By The Congress
Voting in favor of sanctioning the International Criminal Court of Justice, (ICC) which had ordered Israel to take steps to prevent genocide in Gaza, was dismaying. Such decisions to sanction the…
Neoliberalism and Agriculture: Who is at the Root of the Crisis?
The roots of the agricultural crisis in India lie in a variety of factors that collectively make the situation more challenging for the country's farmers. Despite agriculture being the backbone…
Communal (mis)Appropriation of Ambedkar
Ambedkar as an idea of religious liberation and social equality still wields considerable sway in the political imaginations of Dalit people. This permanence of memory makes political appropriation of Ambedkar…
Welfare Schemes for Denotified, Nomadic and Semi-Nomadic Tribes should be more extensive and must reach them soon
Nearly a decade has passed since the government had constituted the National Commission for Denotified Tribes, Nomadic Tribes and Semi-Nomadic Tribes in 2015 under the chairmanship of Bhiku Ramji Idate.…
Western Marxism, Neo-liberal Capitalism and the Imperialist State – Part II
This article was originally published in International Critical Thought journal, and you can access it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21598282.2024.2431960. We are reproducing the article with the permission of the author. ABSTRACT Many Western…
Necrophilia: Locating Dignity in Death and the Law
In the US, two males were accused of breaking into the morgue at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills on September 19, 1995, and having sex with two female…
Iqbal M Chagla raised his bold voice against Corruption in Judiciary and championed constitutionalism
Senior advocate and one of India’s most prominent lawyers Iqbal M Chagla, expired on Sunday in Mumbai at the age of 85. I M Chagla’s contributions to the legal arena…
Kerala Palliative Care Day: A Few Reflections
Celebrated on the 15th of January every year, Kerala Palliative Care Day is not an annual ritualistic celebration as in many similar celebrations with such nomenclature. Instead, it has greater…
Ukrainian Neutrality Is Still the Key to Peace
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President-elect Trump said on January 9th that he is planning a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine. He said…
Social Media as It Should Be
BRUSSELS – Mathematician Cathy O’Neil once said that an algorithm is nothing more than someone’s opinion embedded in code. When we speak of “the algorithms” that power Facebook, X, TikTok,…
Martin Luther King’s Prophetic Warning, Denouncing the Merchants of Death
Over the past three years, a collective of volunteer researchers, lawyers, and commentators created The Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, dedicated to holding accountable four weapon manufacturing corporations based…
AUKUS: Flawed and Sinking
A stillborn agreement treated as thrivingly alive; an understanding celebrated as consensual and equal. The AUKUS security arrangement between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, envisaging the transfer…
Can the Swaraj Path be India’s Answer to Climate Change?
As climate change intensifies and the inadequacy of the west-driven climate response becomes clearer by the day, it is helpful for the entire effort if countries of the global south…
34 SC families in IIT Kanpur without toilets in Open Defecation Free India
When Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur was set up in 1959, two villages were uprooted. The farmers were given meagre compensation for the standing crop. No compensation was given…
Demonstration in Canada to denounce Pilibhit fake encounter
Radical Desi held a candle-light vigil and protest against growing state repression in India, on Sunday, January 12 in Surrey. Three Sikh men were killed by the Indian police in…
The Lancet: 64,260 Gaza Violent Deaths Indicating 257,000 Indirect Deaths In 9 Months
On 9 January 2025 epidemiologists published a paper in the leading medical journal The Lancet in which they estimated 64,260 Gaza deaths from traumatic injury in the 9 months since…
Any Seeds of Hope Beneath the Rubble in Gaza?
Watching, on the one hand, the Israeli soldiers’ video confessions of their genocidal intent and acts and, on the other hand, the Palestinians’ livestreaming of their own deaths and devastation,…
Israel Destroyed Gaza ‘for Generations to Come’ and the World Stayed Silent
The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2012, when the population of the Gaza Strip…
When Israeli Warplanes Rain Death on Gaza, the Copilot is Uncle Sam
In recent weeks, political soothsayers have speculated about a wide variety of odious new policies the incoming Trump administration and its allies in Congress may or may not pursue. No…
Reducing Working Hours is the Need of the Hour
Two days ago, while talking to his employees, S. N. Subramaniam, Chairman of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) construction company, said that workers should work 90 hours a week. For extra…
Israeli poet and peace activist speaks against worsening oppressive conditions in West Bank
While the extreme distress and injustice suffered by the people of Gaza from Israeli aggression and attacks has been in the news worldwide, the increasing sufferings of Palestinians during the…
Gaza Health Ministry Endorses The Lancet Study on Death Toll in Israeli Genocide
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has endorsed the findings of a study published in The Lancet, which estimates that the death toll in Gaza during…
The Claimants of Sheila Dikshit’s Delhi!
(This comment was written about 6 years ago in March 2019. In a recently held conversation about the assembly elections to be held in Delhi on 5 February 2025, learned…
Just Peace for Palestine: An Imperative for Justice and Human Dignity
The ongoing suffering in Palestine demands immediate action, as a just and lasting peace is not only essential for the survival of its people but for the integrity of international…
Netanyahu Sends Mossad Director to Gaza Ceasefire Talks in Qatar, Signaling Progress
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved sending the director of the Mossad foreign intelligence agency to ceasefire negotiations in Qatar in a sign of…
America and Humour From Hell
Politics is always a game of pretension. Politicians remind us of inherent lies, deception, embedded greed and mastery of persuasive propaganda to voters to do good to fellow citizens if…
On its 23rd Anniversary, Activists Demand Biden Close Guantánamo
As the Biden administration ends in little over a week, the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Naval Base, which the president promised to close during his campaign four years ago, now…
Learning from the Los Angeles fires for future safety
The biggest immediate need is for rescue and rehabilitation, but at the same time the right lessons should be learnt from the Los Angeles (LA) fires. This in turn must…
The Draft UGC Regulations 2025: A Recipe For Disaster
Recently, the Union Minister of Education released the Draft UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance…
‘Blood however is Blood’
The year ended on an extremely worrying scenario. What, with bombardments and killings havoc on, in the Middle East? Mind you, Israel’s targeted attacks spreading out, from Gaza and around,…
Naxalism in Karnataka: From the forests to the prison, now what is the responsibility of the government in bringing them back to the society
How did such magic happen in 40 days? They are out from the forests to the prison, now what is the responsibility of the government in bringing them back to…
Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam’s Song: Mor Ghumo ghore ele monohar
Kazi Nazrul Islam in 1926 (Chittagong) (Born 24 May, 1899 -- 29 August, 1976) “O my love, my soul, my heart/ in my deep sleep, you came, my love…” You…
National Guard deployed to Los Angeles fire zones as anger builds over government failure to prevent disaster
The six fires raging across Los Angeles have now claimed more than 12,000 homes and other structures, and at least 11 lives. An estimated 180,000 people remain under evacuation orders…
203 Palestinian Journalists Killed in Israeli Assaults Since Start of Gaza Genocide
Gaza (Quds News Network)- 203 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.…
Grooming Gangs and Colonial Roots of Contemporary Racism in Britain
The Hydrant Programme, which leads the Child Sexual Exploitation Taskforce, is supported by two national policing initiatives: the Tackling Organised Exploitation (TOEX) Programme and the Vulnerability Knowledge and Practice Programme…
Does Babasaheb’s Ideology match with the Hindu Nationalist Politics?
As the insult hurled on Babasaheb by Amit Shah in Lok Sabha is coming under heavy criticism from all over the country, the right wing Hindu Nationalist ideologues are trying…
Polytheism and Social Justice-An Islamic Perspective on Power, Oppression, and Liberation
In Islam, "Shirk" refers to the sin of polytheism or idolatry, involving the attribution of partners or equals to God. The literal meaning of Shirk is "sharing" or "partnership," signifying…
A Day Outside the Shelter: My Visit to Al-Aqsa University Amid Genocide
Today, for the first time since the Israeli genocide against Gazans began, I left my home not out of necessity, but out of a deep yearning to visit my university—Al-Aqsa…
The Fires in Gaza are the Fires in LA
Earlier on Wednesday, January 8th, I saw a prominent Zionist commentator and Twitter/X User post, “Has Greta Thunberg taken her keffiyeh off to address the fires in LA yet or…
Humans Are Neither Rational, Nor Humane
"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help, shall all be saved.” JANE GOODALL Goodall's quote conveys the idea…
Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality?
Net Zero/2050 Fantasy or Reality may be the most significant issue of the 21st century. Net Zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG), such as…
Socio-Economic concerns in Education: An Analysis of NEP 2020
by Satvinderpal Kaur and Kanika Sharma Abstract An overview of the NEP 2020 document in the context of Socio-economically Disadvantaged Groups (SEDG) is pertinent as it deals with the underprivileged…
Trump’s dangerous rhetoric will push the world into a quagmire
Trump’s warning that “all hell will break out in West Asia” if the hostages being held by Hamas are not released by Inauguration Day has put the world into great…
Friends feel the heat as the USA reworks its dominance strategy
The “only thing worse than being the United States’ enemy is being its friend.”—Henry Kissinger This embarrassing statement by one of USA’s top diplomats was wished away by saying that…
Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right 1924-77
"Vajpayee: The Ascent of the Hindu Right 1924-77", Abhishek Choudhary's biography of the late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, captures his early years and reveals how Vajpayee handled political and…
Is Tulsi Gabbard a Compromised Director of National Intelligence?
Why is Gabbard so closely linked to the Hindutva rulers of India? When Ram Madhav was a representative at her wedding in April 2015, you have to really trace back…
Western Marxism, anti-communism and imperialism
This is Part-1 of the article. Part-2 is titled - Western Marxism, Neo-liberal Capitalism and the Imperialist State This article was originally published in International Critical Thought journal, and you…
Demand for MG-NREGA work growing, additional budget needed
The coordinator of Mahila Sangathan (women’s organization) in Barmer district, Anita Soni, said recently that there is increasing demand for employment under the rural employment guarantee scheme known popularly as…
Victory will be that of Mahatma Gandhi: Umar Khalid
Why is Umar Khalid being denied bail again and again? We are reproducing the speech delivered by Umar Khalid in Amravati on February 17, 2020, for the readers and all…
Israel must be added to UN’s sexual violence blacklist: Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Palestinian Territory - Israel’s consistent obstructions of all United Nations investigations into allegations of sexual violence since 7 October 2023 is profoundly concerning. These obstructions, coupled with substantial evidence indicating…
Over 9,000 structures, mostly homes, damaged or destroyed as Los Angeles fires continue to burn
Fires continue to rage through communities in and around Los Angeles imperiling entire neighborhoods and choking millions of people with toxic smoke. At least six people have been confirmed dead…
Debate in Parliament can’t violate the Constitution
While debating the glorious journey of 75 years of the Constitution, one should remember the words of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. The committee headed by him examined the issue of minority…
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