When brainwashed to commit violence, your conscience doesn’t prick when you kill. The barbaric actions at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 were taken by Americans convinced by Donald Trump and others that violence—even war—is essential to secure the nation, democracy, and freedom. Consequently, when rioters killed one police officer, savagely beat another, tried to gouge out the eye of[Read More…]
On January 3, 2020, the U.S. military, following President Trump’s orders, killed Major General Qassim Suleimani, respected leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Groups’ Qud Force. I never understood the morality of foreign policy, but I’m getting the hang of it, thanks to the little-known pocket manual “The U.S. Holy Code Book of Double Standard Morality.” According to U.S. Code,[Read More…]
If you were Iranian and learned that U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton wanted to attack your country, wouldn’t you feel terrified? But we’re taught to dismiss that. The training begins early: Complete the assignment. Get good grades. Insulate your life. Automate your soul. Don’t worry about U.S. bombs pulverizing Baghdad or U.S.-funded death squads mutilating peasants in Latin America.[Read More…]
How do we treat opponents? In strong democracies, we engage them in cooperative dialogue. In weaker democracies, we exclude and overpower them. If we’re undemocratic, we might kill them. So why has the United States, democracy’s alleged leader, become the world’s largest weapons exporter? In 2016, U.S. government arms exports totaled $38 billion, more than a third of the[Read More…]
Americans are instructed that North Korea is an aggressor that violates international agreements and doesn’t negotiate. Until North Korea denuclearizes, we are told, the U.S. must continue rejecting its peace proposals. After all, North Korea withdrew in 2003 from the 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Its subsequent nuclear and missile testing violate the 1953 Korean[Read More…]
According to President Donald Trump, people who are tortured deserve it. Trump’s initial draft executive order in January revealed his passion for reopening U.S. black site prisons, loading Guantanamo with prisoners, and rewriting the Army Field Manual to redefine allowable interrogation techniques. Sure, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis opposes torture. But multiple CIA agents, military brass, legislators, and citizens have[Read More…]
The Democratic National Committee’s conspiring to sabotage Bernie Sanders’ campaign is disturbing on many levels, but what makes me livid is that the DNC was hoping to portray Bernie Sanders as an atheist. What’s worse than the intended smear is the belief that branding someone an atheist is a smear. So what if he were atheist? Does this make him[Read More…]
Omicron and the Travel Ban Itch 
The Donald Also Rises? The Far Right Continues to Build Its International 
The Hollowness of India’s Education System 
Declining fertility rate and population in India 
Big builders lording over the textile mill area in Mumbai 
29th anniversary of demolition of Babri Masjid which was the most defining moment of ascendancy of Saffron Fascism 
Activists, you must shame and pressure the PA for its sins as much as you pressure Israel for its crimes 
India-Bangladesh ties at inflection point 
World Soil Day 
An Option Taken Off the Table 
Courage, Caution and the Spirit of 1971 
The landscape of a Cashless India 
Backing Horses: Australia’s Solomon Islands Intervention 
Pavel Kussa on Agrarian Crisis, Victory and Challenges ahead 
Time to Fight Climate Change, Not Each Other 
As UAE embraces Iran, fizz goes pop for Abraham Accords 
Front-of-Pack Label regulation will be ‘good for India’ 
Burned-out Forests Are Not Re-Growing 
Is the collegium system of appointment a disappointment? 
UN should brand Hindutva terrorist groups 
Can the Green New Deal save us? No it can’t 
Beyond English Channel Tragedy! 
Environment, human rights and class power 
Dalit Agricultural Workers Organisations intensify stir to combat Rulers 
Doing Social Science Research at the time of a Pandemic 
Maduro Calls To Develop A System Based On Popular Power In Venezuela 
High Time for USA and UK to live up to their commitments 
Covid hits survivors of the Bhopal Gas Disaster hardest 
Countdown to World War III? 
Hunger In Latin America And the Caribbean Rose By 13.8 Million People In Just One Year, Says UN Report 
Where there are Tailings, No Grass Grows: Serbians Protest against Rio Tinto 
Germany Too Has the Plight of the Unvaccinated 
Vaccine Hesitancy or Resistance? 
American Express Goes on a Buying Spree in Argentina’s Congress 
Have British Politicians No Shame? 
Belgium is on the Right Track, But Europe has Failed Palestine 
Ayodhya Verdict in Indian Newspapers 
Just Not a Night in Bhopal: A Question of Life & Death 
Oscillating between Ephemeral Life and Social Science Research: Reflections of a Pandemic 
Afghanistan: Destination unknown yet 
This year has been one of the toughest. With the raging pandemic, climate crisis, wars, the failure in Glasgow….. We also have moments to celebrate with the victory of the farmers in India which was totally ignored by the mainstream media and they even tarnished the fighting farmers image and intent. We toil day and night for the betterment of[Read More…]
