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…]
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Uttarakhand Again Faces Serious Disaster Situation 
Rail passengers in MP demand restoration of pre-Covid train services 
Our Future vs. Neoliberalism 
US billionaire wealth increased 70 percent since the start of the pandemic 
Future of Dalits in India 
An Indigenous peoples’ approach to climate justice 
What Youth-Led Movements Teach Us About Democracy 
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Digital Farm Technology Is Not the Climate Panacea Corporations Want You to Think It Is 
Narrative traps in India’s decision-making 
Colin Powell: Establishment Warrior 
Adventures in American Education 
A Time for Giving Special Attention to Safety of Coal Miners 
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Climate Change Viewed from the Attic of the World 
“Undertrials” for how long? Guilty till proven innocent? 
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Special Significance of Protecting Boral River 
Colin Powell, an image with a vial of lie, is dead 
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In U.S. Foreign Policy, Realists Are Finally on the Rise 
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Something Worse than Slavery? 
Broken white rice from India withdrawn from European Union after found to being GM in origin 
After Corbyn, Israel lobby turns its guns on UK academia 
Islam Reached India through Arab Traders rather than Invaders 
Global Debt Leaps to $226 Trillion, reports IMF 
This year there was international outrage when a frail 84-year-old Jesuit priest with Parkinson’s disease, Stan Swamy, died after being held in an Indian jail in inhumane conditions, on flimsy charges. When he was eventually moved to hospital, he tested positive for Covid and went on to suffer a cardiac arrest. He had devotedly served the poor and defended their[Read More…]
