The Design Museum in London opens at its new home this week with, as its centrepiece, an exhibition called Fear and Love curated by Justin McGuirk. I contributed the following text to the book. Why we need a new story In 1971 a geologist called Earl Cook evaluated the amount of energy ‘captured from the environment’ in different economic systems.[Read More…]
Increasing Need for Early Availability of More Reliable Mortality Data 
Chronicle of the unavailing Afghan war 
Reactions to U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan 
Educate, Agitate, Organize: Self-reflections 
Surveillance Capitalism threatens public university in India 
Gates Unhinged: Dystopian Vision for Agrifood Must Not Succeed 
The Pandemic: death toll reaches 3 million, crisis deepening in Brazil, India, France 
Rising Garden Film Festival reaches wider audience virtually amidst pandemic 
‘Sholay’ was a landmark film but not a classic with a social theme 
The British Prime Minister, Oxford MPs and the Green Party MP on Farmers Protest in India. 
Uniforms 
A Taste of Patriarchy in Speech: Language and Gender 
Contribution of Urban Gardening Can Improve Greatly with A Few Changes 
Comparing Response to Two Important Diseases—Tuberculosis and COVID-19 
Fight against Covid-19: Incompetence or deliberate negligence 
Ultimate Success 
Empire’s Afghan War: A lost war, a profitable war 
Raul Castro steps down, next generation of anti-imperialist leaders take responsibility 
Does Historiography Transcend Anachronism? 
Thrissur Pooram – 2021 
The Dirty Campaign Underlying Ecuador’s “Free and Fair” Election 
The Myth of Peace in the Middle East: Deconstructing the Naturalization Narrative 
U.S. Joins Past Empires In Afghan Graveyard 
India should welcome the end of US occupation of Afghanistan 
Centre’s ordinance: A big blow to cinema 
Indian monsoons becoming more chaotic 
Hindi Cinema Has Not Properly Tapped the Potential of Social Thrillers 
Movements for Improving Internal Strengths, Integrity and Resilience of Rural Communities 
Killing Yemen 
Mohammad Azharuddin was simply the ultimate embodiment of cricketing poetry and grace 
Jean Swanson honoured for standing up for Indian farmers and opposing CAA 
Mumia Abu-Jamal is Scheduled for Open-Heart Surgery –Racism Remains the Greatest Medical Threat to Mumia’s Health Exiting Afghanistan: Biden Sets the Date 
As the US plans its Afghan troop withdrawal, what was it all for? 
US: Indian Ocean is not India’s ocean 
Facebook Evaluates Boosts Of Posts That Include Anti-Zionist Speech As Having A “low Quality Attribute” 
Recognition of Palestine is ‘Symbolic’ but also Critical: The Australian Case 
POEM to the EARTH 
Making Sense of a Viral Military 
The Hawks Who Want War With Iran Are Working Overtime 
When I founded Countercurrents.org in 2002, Disha Ravi who was arrested for sedition yesterday was a two-year-old toddler. In 2002, the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 370 ppm. Now it is 415 ppm. In just 19 years CO2 levels increased by just over 2ppm/year. The level of cumulative greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including Methane, Nitrous Oxide etc is[Read More…]
