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…]
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Crossing the Creepy Line: Google, Deception and the ACCC 
Intellectuals as Lumpen Herds in the Universities 
Accountability Is Gone in America 
Four Months Into the Global COVID-19 Health and Economic Crisis… 
Dalit Politics needs a New Radical Direction 
Deva Basha Vs Mlechha Basha and Ram Vs Ravan! 
DU Professor Hany Babu’s arrest: Media takes a blinkered view to the issue 
Teachers in the e-box 
Kashmir; A year after 
Small Steps and Future Course: Answering the ‘How’ 
The Problematic Story of Draft EIA Notification 2020 
C Achutha Menon: Communist Aspirations in India 
Stop the Celebration of Hatred at Times Square, New York City 
Should Diamond symbolize happily ever after? 
India To Take China On Its Own 
The plight of Journalists in Bangladesh in the age of Covid-19 
Oppose and condemn the arbitrary, vindictive arrest of Prof. Hany Babu 
Human Rights Defenders: Palestinian Eyewitness Testimony of the Execution of Abdul Fattah al-Sharif by Israeli Soldier, Elor Azaria 
Regimes Without Reason and Conscience 
Legal Education under NEP 2020: Big Promises with Little Substance 
Macaulay Putras And The New Education Policy: Shudras/Dalits/Adivasis Must Be Vigilant 
Remembering Kamlabai 
Statement by students in solidarity with Prof Hany Babu 
Unsung martyr: Udham Singh who avenged the Jallianwala Bagh massacre 
Our Lungs Are Under Attack—We Must Protect Them to Stay Alive 
How the national movement influenced our art, culture and cinema 
U.S. jobless claims top 1 million again in latest week as the pandemic keeps on biting workers 
EIA 2020: Why is it so perilous? 
Hagia Sophia: Heritage of Entire Humanity 
Commemorating the writings of Emily Bronte 
Narendra Modi has no right to lay the foundation of Ram temple 
Gender stereotypes plaguing the pandemic response 
Eulogy or Elegy? 
CPI Opposes Privatisation and Commercialisation in New Education Policy 
A strong voice against Hindutva in Greater Vancouver lost 
How the West Stole Democracy From the Arabs 
How Americans Remember (and Forget) Their Wars 
Iran And Israel Spar Over Cyber Warfare 
Today, the Republic of India faces its gravest moment since it was born seventy years ago. What has hit the second most populous nation in the world – just in the last few months itself – is nothing short of a crisis of Biblical proportions. An untreatable viral epidemic, a debilitating lockdown, a collapsed economy, hunger stalking every corner of[Read More…]
