As one who has followed Olympic women’s figure skating, especially since Michelle Kwan (ironically a Chinese-American), I was—as an egalitarian feminist when it comes to sports—excited to learn that there was a 15-year-old Russian woman skater, Kamila Valieva, who could do effortless quad jumps. Waiting in anticipation of her first Olympic performance, I listened to commentators and former US skaters[Read More…]
The media coverage of the hostage-taking at a synagogue in Texas has been predictably hysterical, Islamophobic and inaccurate about Aafia Siddiqui, the apparent political cause of the hostage-taker Malik Faisad Akram. According to his family in England he has “mental health issues.” He was “said to have” weapons and explosives. He was “said to have” threatened[Read More…]
In a day when America is ruling over a global Empire maintained with violent enforcement to insure universal subordination to its will; and in a day when a military-style domestic police state relentlessly makes sure anti-government protest and dissent is contained, the patriarchal part of that America has been enhanced and strengthened. Feminist movements have launched long, fierce struggles[Read More…]
One nurse told Clay. . . “I’ve given him the highest dosage I can. It’s enough to kill a horse. Most hospice patients die from morphine, but I can only OD him within an acceptable margin of error.” -From Christopher Bollen, A Beautiful Crime In this age of coronavirus, it has become abundantly clear that Western culture has little[Read More…]
As Australian activist John Pilger recounts his visit to the world’s most abused US/UK political prisoner Julian Assange, he gives us the brutal details of how the friends and families of political prisoners also face punishment, gauntlets, humiliation. And he tells of the terrible conditions and terrible treatment meted out to Assange, and the weakened, vulnerable state in which[Read More…]
Without Stopping War, Extreme Hunger Will Continue to Increase 
‘That’s not the devil. That’s America.’, a Washington Post headline 
IAS officer punished for throwing out athletes from stadium 
Imprudent for govt to divest its residual equity share of 29.5% in HZL 
Digitizing to Dystopia – Wanted: Enlightened leadership 
Geopolitical Update: U.S. to leverage Russia-Ukraine Bloc Against China, Says Blinken 
Survival of Homo Sapiens on Planet Earth 
Fatal Flaw and Fatal Folly 
The People’s Summit for Democracy Offers a Progressive Vision to Counter U.S. Dominance in the Region 
War Photos Exhibited to Promote Peace 
Biden in Asia: Further Steps Toward War with China 
African Union at 20: Challenges ahead 
People are the Fifth Pillar of Democracy 
“Embracing Solidarities through Sharing Stories of Struggles to Resist Empires” 
End political instability in Sri Lanka 
Hunger Strikes by Two Political Prisoners Draw Attention to Violation of Their Human Rights 
Enforced Disappearances in Sri Lanka 
Relevance of Nehru’s Legacy of Democracy, Secularism, Socialism, Peace and Non-Alignment Has Increased Further 
Dalit agricultural Community in Sangrur protests for land rights 
Supreme Court upholds fundamental rights of sex workers to be treated with dignity and respect 
Tracing Panchayati Raj’s role in deepening democracy and decolonising governance over 30 years 
Bahujan politics needs a new radical alternative 
Ukraine Update: Ukraine Must Give Russia Territory, Says Henry Kissinger Immediately resolve the hunger strike Demands of Dr. G.N. Saibaba and save his life in the jail 
The Ukraine War’s Collateral Damage 
Constantly on the Verge of Collapse: How Palestinians Became a Factor in Israeli Politics 
The Solidarity Youth Movement launched its second state-level conference on the title theme ‘The tradition of liberation and the proud testimony of faith’ 
The Economy of Tolerable Massacres: The Uvalde Shootings 
Weep not just for Uvalde but for the hatred that consumes America and the world 
Candlelight Vigil for Shireen 
Long Marginalized, the ‘Right of Return’ is Once More a Palestinian Priority 
Ghetto America 
Fast-Track to NATO Expansion Hits a Speed Bump 
Remembering the burning of Jaffna public library – 41 years on 
Three Great Poems by Narayan Surve – Poetic Portraits of Repressed and Helpless Women 
Is This the End of the French Project in Africa’s Sahel? 
A Phallic Country 
Open letter to Sharda university Vice-Chancellor 
Caste doesn’t just exist in India or in Hinduism – it is pervasive across many religions in South Asia and the diaspora 
The long road to Palestine, A prisoner in my home! 
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