February 2025

America’s ‘Year Zero’ Moment

They are not clad in black pyjama-like fatigues or have a ‘krama’ – the Cambodian traditional scarf-  around their necks. Nor are they particularly young and idealistic. And yet, in…

Climate Politics: What Would Donald Trump Do?

Recent scientific data shows that global temperatures exceeded 1.5 degrees Celsius (above pre-industrial levels) for the first time. Dr. James Hansen, the godfather of the modern-day climate movement, believes the global rise…

My search for Refaat Alareer’s body

When the ceasefire in Gaza began, my main focus became finding an answer to this question: Where is Dr. Refaat Alareer’s body? I wanted to fulfill the wish of Refaat’s mother, who…

Resisting Riviera of the Middle East

“There is something sick and rotten about states and societies that not only support and enable mass killings but also make money off of them.”                                                                – Pankaj Mishra, January…

Setting an example for others!

This morning, a long term AU friend, who I’d met through Countercurrents in 2007, sent me verbatim this news: U.S. facing very active weather pattern for the next two weeks…

As one war ends, another begins

Israel’s overt assault on Gaza has ended, at least for now. The sounds of planes and whistles of shells have stopped, as have the moments of sheer terror and hiding…

Parliamentary Farces

I do not understand why my countrymen are not outraged and disgusted at the current goings-on in our parliament.Elsewhere people would,I am sure,revolt in indignation if things came to such…

Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied

by Chaitanya Pandey, Shashank Singh and Sandeep Pandey In 2017 the Electoral Bond Scheme was introduced. In the name of making funding of political parties transparent, the information of purchaser…

Putting Nature at the Center

Life may be unique to Earth. Even if single-celled organisms can readily evolve in conditions that exist on millions or billions of other planets, we have no actual evidence that complex, multi-cellular…

Appropriate Response

The administrative spectacle now unfolding exceeds all expectations. How should we respond? What is appropriate? I remember Abbie Hoffman and the general inclination of New Left times and other situations…

The White Rose

The light of reasonAnd the Higher LightAnd there is sanity in the light The fire of passionAnd that is LoveThe flow of passionate life Believe in the River of Crossing…

Danish Media’s United Stand Against Big Tech

COPENHAGEN – As AI slop spreads across the internet, concerns about the future of high-quality information are growing. Without accurate and relevant human-generated data, model collapse – whereby generative artificial…

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