Presenting themselves as shocked bystanders to the growing famine in Yemen, the US and UK are in fact prime movers in a new strategy that will massively escalate it. The protagonists of the war on Yemen – the US, UK, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – have been beset by problems ever since they launched the operation in[Read More…]
20 years ago this month, a run on the Thai currency triggered a financial crisis that quickly devastated the economy of the entire region, sinking the currencies of Thailand, Indonesia and South Korea and ultimately spreading as far as Russia and Brazil. Far from ‘lessons being learned’, however, history looks worryingly set to repeat itself. On 2nd July 1997, Thailand’s[Read More…]
It appears that the massive, almost decade-long transfer of wealth to the rich known as ‘quantitative easing’ is coming to an end. Of the world’s four major central banks – the US Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and the Bank of Japan – two have already ended their policy of buying up financial assets (the[Read More…]
In late 2012, Peter Turchin, a professor at the University of Connecticut made a startling claim. Based on an analysis of revolutionary upheavals across history, he found that there were 3 social conditions in place shortly before all major outbreaks of social violence: an increase in the elite population; a decrease in the living standards of the masses; and huge[Read More…]
WWII & Holocaust Could Never Have Happened Without American Corporations Investing & Joint Venturing with Hitler’s Poor Nazi Germany – Chapter 1 
A doubtful American Invention 
Why Ukraine Is Increasingly a Nuclear Headache for World Powers 
Why EU Strategic Autonomy Apart from the U.S. Is Currently Impossible 
Selective Outrage in Palestine: The Problem is Not Just Smotrich but Zionism 
Israeli Protests: Racist Western Mainstream Media Ignore The Palestinians 
The Boys of my Town at Ram Navami Day 
Will the court act against hate speeches ? 
The Convulsive Journey Of The Naga Peace Process: A Pursuit Towards Mutual Coexistence And Autonomy 
The Sound of the New War Drum Goes Tik-Tok 
To Hell and Back – America’s Remarkable Unwillingness to Support Its Veterans 
Time Ticking: US Ambassador to India Promised Human Rights Focus 
Perils of Complacency – Recent Indian experience of democracy 
In difficult times for education, smooth flow of pre-matric scholarships is important 
Targeting China, US Navy to purchase 100 new ships 
Fifty Years of the 1973 Yom Kippur War 
History archives in Bikaner and Mumbai 
In memory of 35th death anniversary of Jaimal Singh Padda 
Whither democracy after Rahul Gandhi’s unseating? 
An Ordinary German Pogrom 
The Sudden Death of Giant Panda Lele Highlights Systemic Failures at Memphis Zoo 
Fresh investigation needed on the 2008 Jaipur bomb blasts 
Adani Stock Scam An Opportunity To Curtail Hindurashtra Conspiracy 
Urgency of Stepping Up Backward Class Schemes as only 6% of Allocated Funds Spent in First Nine Months of Financial Year 
At least 40 immigrants dead in fire at US-Mexico border 
Contemporary Anti-Semitism – A Jewish View from Germany 
In memory of 40th Anniversary of Military Dictatorship in Argentina 
Poor work conditions, non-compliance with Constitutional provisions seriously impact adolescent girls in workforce 
Take action against K Surendran for insulting Women 
Calculated Exoneration: Command Responsibility and War Crimes in Afghanistan 
DOJ Called Upon to Investigate Environmental Activists Abuses 
The World’s Coffee Shops Have Emerged as Plant Milk’s Front Line 
Lara Sheehi’s ordeal, like Steven Salaita’s, is not quite over 
“Facing Clear Evidence of Peril” in a Country of Lies 
The case of Kashmir: A Gandhian Resolution 
Non-Availability of Badly Needed Funds for Dalit Students Increases Their Difficulties 
A bureaucrat-turned- minister in a mess 
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Workers’ 24-Hour Mega Transport Strike Halts Germany 
Oldest Interfaith Organization in America Calls for Children to Have More Rights Than Guns 
What’s the Best Way Out from the War in Ukraine? 
Our beloved K.P.Sasi is no more. Filmmaker, cartoonist, writer, mentor, friend and above all tireless activist championing the cause of every underdog, Sasi breathed his last, mid-afternoon this Christmas day – after battling a medical condition for months. I remember the last time I met him, almost exactly a month before he passed away, at the ayurvedic healing center in[Read More…]
