Leadership for Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change
I would regard anyone as my leader a) whom I have met personally, b) with whom I work or interact directly face to face on a more or less daily…
Anandi Sharan
Unemployment
meditation preparing for unemployment what I would say to anyone who asks me what I say to myself thoughts on Louise Glueck's short speech on being congratulated for receiving the…
Machines Are Not Bodies
Machines are not bodies. A body knows how it feels, a machine does not. The goal and purpose of life for humans and other living beings is to create and…
My Feelings Before, During and After a 21 Day Water Fast
Before the fast, during the lockdown, I had been eating alot of home-made bread and not walking much let alone running. After the lockdown I walked and ran a bit…
Need to Oust Professional Society
In his book The Rise of Professional Society England since 1880, Harold Perkin wrote: "The 20th century has seen the dissolution of the concept of absolute property. It has been…
The Government of India Is On Track for Paris Agreement – but What About Overthrowing Wage Labour?
In the First Biennial Update Report to the UNFCCC, the Government of India projected that India’s primary energy use would go from 397 Mtoe in 2006-07 to 1823 Mtoe in…
Happy International Biodiversity Day
The National Green Tribunal had asked all States to finish preparing People's Biodiversity Registers by end of January 2020. This made various States make greater efforts to mobilise volunteers in…
Behavioural Change for Equity and Survival 2020-2050
The great thing about the COVID-19 crisis is that the bourgeoisie has been revealed to be sheeplike in their behaviour, which is very good news for climate justice. An example…
The COVID-19 pandemic and developing countries
Co-Written by Anandi Sharan and Nihal Ahmed After the declaration of a COVID-19 pandemic by the WHO, around 4 billion people are locked down. In India the loss of…
Reciprocal Altruism
Treating others with trust and happiness, and hoping for their self-realisation seems to be natural behaviour that follows natural laws. 2500 years ago the Buddha had to leave his…
Greta Thunberg: Mobilising against the Empire
What Greta Thunberg did is to mobilise the children who live in the Empire, the most powerful, the only, international Empire. The leaders of the Empire sit in Washington, in…
The Global Green New Deal is a Plan for Genocide
This article is a criticism and condemnation of a self-declared “major” “modern money theory - green new deal initiative” written by the economist Bill Mitchell and disseminated on his website.…
Climate Change Facts – from Climate Change to Runaway Global Heating
In the light of the recent IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, (Ref 1), it…
In the Anthropocene We Don’t Need Machines, But Nor Do We Need Human Work
For 500'000 years before 1958 around 100 Gigatonnes of carbon (around 360 Gt of carbon dioxide) were fixed in the biosphere through photosynthesis every year. Carbon dioxide fixation equalled carbon…
Indian Medical Association Strike: Hindu Nazi Doctors Body Despise the Poor
Indian Medical Association has over 325,000 doctors as its members. As with everything in India including the Republic itself, the upper castes inherited whatever the Brits left behind. There was…
After Assam, Government of India to Identify Foreigners Across India
Today in India the fascist BJP Government at the Centre announced that henceforth all District magistrates in all States of India have the power and are encouraged to track and…
Fascist International? Note on EU Parliamentary Election Results
Fascism is always latent in a Republic, and makes its appeal in underhand ways. They incite you to believe that the survival of your family is dependent on the survival…
The Role of Sequestration in Reversing Anthropogenic Climate Change: An Update
Last month I suggested a limit of USD 5000 and 1 tCO2e ration per person per year for an equitable and sustainable world. (1) Today's update concerns an article…
The USD 5000 Per Person per Year Sustainable World Economy
The chart shows the Greenhouse Gas emissions trajectories of the world's 4 largest countries. We can devise and predict and hope for a politics in each of these regions to…
Gilets Jaunes! Don’t Forget Your Anti-Americanism
Gilets Jaunes! Greetings on your fourth week of Revolutionary struggle! Dalit Marxists extend our Solidarity and Revolutionary Greetings! We offer you an analysis of the world's crisis we are all…
Eradicating Suffering
In the last few years I have become aware of the impossibility of removing misery externally to myself. But even very recently when a dire issue presented itself to…
Banks refuse to Buy Zero Interest Bonds from the Government of Karnataka
The news (1) today that the State Government of Karnataka has been betrayed by public sector banks who initially agreed to buy zero interest bonds from the State Government…
By the Way Mr Chairman: Public Spending is a Constitutional Requirement
The 15th Finance Commission is about to write its recommendations in India. The Chairman NK Singh is the same man who wrote a report on the functioning of the Fiscal…
Kerala Govt’s Public Financing plan shows way out of Liberal Austerity Politics of Narendra Modi’s BJP
The Kerala State Government is absolutely right to disregard FRBMA limits and raise its own funds for reconstruction. (1) We should further bring out how a new Government at the…
Fascist Relations in India
Brijesh Thakur is the man accused of sexually abusing 34 out of 44 young women in his care as sex slaves, and terrorising 11 others to flee from another…
First Aid for Victims of Heat
As Earth is in a condition of runaway climate change, - as feedback effects from warming oceans unleash dramatic temperature extremes on Earth, - there are more and more…
Wendy Brown has used many words but Samir Amin Makes the Important Point
In an interview recently, and in several published papers before (1), Wendy Brown, the American political theorist, said she blames neoliberalism for the destruction of liberal democratic institutions and practices…
Living by One’s Own Truth: Capitalism equals Corruption
Small and marginal farmers, sharecroppers, landless labourers and other farm and forest workers in India are the single largest natural resource being exploited for capitalist accumulation in India. The market…
Psychotherapy, politics and women
I have been thinking about and reading a bit about psychotherapy. Psychotherapy for sad people is very important. Psychotherapy is very important for example because sadness and tension and…
Sovereign Money to Restore Democracy in Switzerland
In the latest survey by Swiss television 59% of the citizens surveyed will vote yes to a reform of the money system in Switzerland. The Full Reserve Money referendum…
Bail Not Jail
In a recent case at Uttarakhand High Court at the end of April 2018 a person accused under the Indian Penal Code of cheating, of being party to a…
Abolish the Ministry and the Departments of Forestry
Once the Brits came and imposed their capitalism in India the upper castes and the Brits took the common property resources and shared them out by privatising them. Everyone…
No Developer Is Complete Without His Excavator
Since Narendra Modi came to power in India in 2014 a few hundred thousand upper caste Indians not only acquire Audis, Ferraris and Mercedes Benz vehicles to prove that…
The 2018-2019 Union Budget Is Good For Creating 116651 Cabinet Ministers But Nothing Else
The average, declared, moveable and immovable assets of the 70 Union Cabinet members is around Rs 16 crores. The Union Budget 2018-2019 is Rs 1866418 crores after subtracting the…
Freedom As The Way Out Of Global Warming
Why is there resistance to working to reduce the imbalances in earth’s systems? What is this resistance? What are these imbalances? What is earth? What are systems? What is…
What Does Psychological And Physical Adaptation To Global Warming Look Like?
Western man, to whose numbers we count men and women beneficiaries of capitalism in all its facets, must mend his ways or accept the extinction of the human race. One…
Indian Judiciary Is Purposely Being Run Down For Benefit Of Modi/Shah
Hindu Rashtra benefits from the miserable underfunding of the Indian judiciary leading to what is objectively speaking a dysfunctional and for the poor more or less non-functional judiciary. The…
National Green Tribunal Southern Bench Has No Judges: Narendra Modi And Amit Shah Must Be Happy
The last Judge of the National Green Tribunal southern bench retired last week. Now there are none. Narendra Modi and Amit Shaw who head the most anti-environment Government and…
How Can Chief Justice Of India Dipak Misra Be Impeached
Ignoring this morning Friday January 12 2017 press conference held by Justice Chelameswar the senior most Justice of India after the Chief Justice, along with the next three senior…
Narendra Modi Is Bound To Loose The Next Parliamentary Elections
The Political Economy of Hindu Rashtra is a mix of manic use of State power to line the pockets of the upper castes combined with abject subjection of the…
Socialism or Barbarism: The Urgency of EcoSocialism In The Age of Global Warming
59% of Indians, or 781,261,099 men and women in India, are of working age, that is to say, over the age of 20. India has 394600000 acres of cultivable…
When They Amended Companies Act Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley And the BJP Committed The Crime Of Bribery
When they amended paragraph 3 section 182 the Companies Act 2013 in part XII of the Finance Act 2017-2018 in Parliament on March 22 2017, Narendra Modi, Arun Jaitley…
BJP Telangana MLA Raja Singh Being Investigated In Karnataka Under Section 153A of IPC
Yesterday 15 December 2017 ANI reported that police in Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India have filed an FIR against Telangana BJP MLA Raja Singh for inciting communal hatred. An FIR has…
Mohan Bhagat Must Be Indicted Under Section 153A Of The Indian Penal Code Act 45 of 1860
It was reported in the Hindustan Times today that Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday in Tripura said that “The Muslims in India are also Hindus” and that “Anybody living in…
Need for More Public Interest Litigation and Charging of Politicians for Hate Crimes
Why is there a gag order on Yogi Adityanath’s hate speech trial in Allahabad? What is the public interest in covering up these crimes? The hate speeches by Yogi Adityanath…
Make Rupee in India: Eco Development Banks Capitalised with Zero Coupon Perpetual Bonds hold the Key
Recently I criticised the cost of money inflicted on electricity consumers by the Power Finance Corporation. I mentioned that India has always been and can always be self sufficient…
Rs Six per Unit of Electricity Being Sent Abroad
Last month the Power Finance Corporation of India (PFC) issued a so-called green bond in London. It is a 10-year green bond and raised USD 400 million, paying a…
1 Minute Read: The Role of Money in the Age of the Sixth Biodiversity Extinction and Global Warming
The difference between debt and sovereign money is that debt has to be paid back, with interest, but sovereign money does not, though it can be taxed out of…
How The State Can Create Its Own Money For Disaster Risk Reduction
“Rajya ke khajane par aapda-prabhaviton ka pehla haq hai...” Nitish is quoted as saying on the title page of the government of Bihar’s roadmap for disaster risk reduction 2015-2030.Considering…
Debts That Cannot Be Paid Will Not Be, T Sabri Öncü Argues
An excellent review of global debt in the Economic and Political Weekly last month concludes that capitalism is probably insolvent. The article by T Sabri Öncü is entitled Debts…
Limitations of Political Space in Bihar Reflected in Limitations of National Media Commentary
The JD(U) have joined up with the BJP again, a damning indictment of the INC that failed to mobilise a united let alone effective opposition to the NDA. There…
Shortcomings of the BJP’s Bankruptcy and Insolvency Rules 2016
The BJP's new Bankruptcy and Insolvency Rules 2016 in India bluntly provide that individuals with debts over Rupees one thousand will lose their assets to a resolution professional if…
Complementary Digital Currencies May Be On Their Way In India
The Government of India has decided to set up a committee to report back within six month with recommendations on how to regulate digital currencies. Digital currencies are cropping…
A Suggestion For A Single Point Anti-Incumbency Manifesto For 2019 Against The BJP
Here is my suggestion for a Single Point Anti-Incumbency Manifesto for 2019 against the BJP for the Grand Coalition of Socialist and Communist Parties. 95% of Indians are agricultural…
Democracy Means Controlling The Bank
Every day in the papers we are reading about the impacts of the starvation politics of demonetisation by the BJP on agricultual labourers, cultivators and other agricultural workers. During…
Anti-Corruption Is Not An Economic Policy Though The BJP And the INC Would Like You To Think So
Economic, Ecological and Agricultural Science Illiteracy of Elites Having already been investigated by the Income Tax Department and the Enforcement Directorate, we now get news that NDTV, one of…
India’s Elites Are Hypocrites No Matter What Political Party They Are In
Today we were treated to a story in a national newspaper in India that gave a heart-rending list of damning statistics about the sorry plight of India’s Scheduled Tribes,…
Climate Change: India Can And Must Go It Alone
Quite some years ago, and as he described in a talk to the Club of Rome in 2011, David Wasdell had concluded along with John Schellnhuber, - and taking Hansen's…
Modern Money Theory And The Demonetisation Catastrophe In India
For the life of me I cannot understand the reasoning behind demonetisation. I think the hidden underlying motivation is as that the only people India's politicians are willing to…
Fascism In India
On Monday the 31st of October 2016 the Madhya Pradesh police assassinated eight alleged associates of the Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) after an alleged escape from prison near…
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