“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” — Archbishop Desmond Tutu The world lost a great moral leader this Christmas when Archbishop Desmond Tutu passed away at the age[Read More…]
When President Biden first unveiled the Build Back Better agenda, it appeared that this country was on the path to a new war on poverty. In April, he told Congress that “trickle-down economics have never worked” and that it was time to build the economy “from the bottom-up.” This came after the first reconciliation bill of the pandemic included the child tax[Read More…]
The Land of the Free, Where So Many of the Brave Are Homeless. Resisting Evictions Amid a Pandemic Over the past weeks, multiple crises have merged: a crisis of democracy with the most significant attack on voting rights since Reconstruction; a climate crisis with lives and livelihoods upended in the Gulf Coast and the Northeast by extreme weather events and in the West by[Read More…]
My father, Athan G. Theoharis, passed away on July 3rd. A leading expert on the FBI, he was responsible for exposing the bureau’s widespread abuses of power. He was a loyal husband, dedicated father, scholar, civil libertarian, and voting-rights advocate with an indefatigable commitment to defending democracy. He schooled his children (and anyone who would listen, including scholars, journalists, and activists from a[Read More…]
One hundred and fifty years ago, in the bloody wake of the Civil War, the abolitionist Julia Ward Howe issued a “Mother’s Day Proclamation.” The world, she wrote, could no longer bear such terrible violence and death. She called on women across the country to “rise up through the ashes and devastation” and come together in the cause of peace.[Read More…]
Fifty-four years ago, standing at the pulpit of Riverside Church in New York City, Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his now-famous “Beyond Vietnam” sermon. For the first time in public, he expressed in vehement terms his opposition to the American war in Vietnam. He saw clearly that a foreign policy defined by aggression hurt the poor and dispossessed across the[Read More…]
In June 1990, future South African President Nelson Mandela addressed a joint session of Congress only months after being released from 27 years in a South African apartheid prison. He reminded the political leadership of the United States that “to deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity. To impose on them a wretched life of hunger and deprivation[Read More…]
2020 will go down as the deadliest year in American history, significantly due to the devastation delivered by the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, count in nearly two trillion dollars in damage from climate events (many caused by, or heightened by, intensifying global warming), a surge of incidents of police violence inflicted on Black and Native peoples, and millions more Americans joining the ranks of the poor even as[Read More…]
Martin Luther King, Jr., offered this all-too-relevant comment on his moment in his 1967 speech “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”: “The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to[Read More…]
The New Politics of the Poor in Joe Biden’s (and Mitch McConnell’s) USA In the two weeks since Election 2020, the country has oscillated between joy and anger, hope and dread in an era of polarization sharpened by the forces of racism, nativism, and hate. Still, truth be told, though the divisive tone of this moment may only be sharpening,[Read More…]
On August 26th, during the Republican National Convention, Vice President Mike Pence closed out his acceptance speech with a biblical sleight of hand. Speaking before a crowd at the Fort McHenry National Monument in Baltimore, he exclaimed, “Let’s fix our eyes on Old Glory and all she represents. Let’s fix our eyes on this land of heroes and let their courage inspire.”[Read More…]
In the summer of 1995, when I was 18, I started visiting Tent City, a temporary encampment in an abandoned lot in northeast Philadelphia. About 40 families had taken up residence in tents, shacks, and other makeshift structures. Among them were people of various races, ages, and sexual orientations, all homeless and fighting for the right to live. Tent City was set up[Read More…]
My mom contracted polio when she was 14. She survived and learned to walk again, but my life was deeply affected by that virus. Today, as our larger society attempts to self-distance and self-isolate, my family has texted about the polio quarantine my mom was put under: how my grandma fearfully checked my aunt’s temperature every night because she shared[Read More…]
All Of Us Remain Hostages to the Military-Industrial Complex 
Rajasthan NGO contributes to improving vaccination rates 
Faces of Inequality: Stories of the poor and underprivileged from India’s grassroots 
Serbia Stomps on Rio Tinto’s Lithium Mining Project 
Zionist-subverted America: Jewish Zionists Are One Third Of The Biden Cabinet 
The Geopolitics Behind Spiraling Gas and Electricity Prices in Europe 
Why Did Geetoshree Sandhya Mukherjee Decline The “Shree” Award? 
Islam, Gender Justice and Role of Darul Qaza: Critical Analysis 
Stay United Against State Repression 
Providing Facilities To Tamils: Presidents’ new Panacea to solve their 72 years of Ethnic Problems 
We Must All Recognize That a War Over Ukraine Is Not the Answer 
Bathed in Pesticides: the Narrative of Deception 
Operation Samadhan – Prahar a genocidal military policy to break the people’s democratic resistance against corporate loot! 
Thoughts on Genocide and our Planet 
Off to the Supreme Court: Assange’s Appeal Continues 
A New Perspective on the Department of Homeland Security 
Lok Morcha Punjab calls on building revolutionary Alternative and place no faith in Ruling class Parties 
Fables And Fantasies 
Communalism has overtaken the Constitution! 
Drug mafia & role of private ports 
What Solidarity Journalism Reveals to Us 
Republic Day, January 26, 1950: An Epic Journey of India’s greatest generation 
‘Monika My Darling’ on Republic Day! 
How the US and NATO Could Settle Dispute Over Ukraine Without War 
Dangerous Heat Across the Globe 
Save Lives, Socialize Big Pharma 
History: An Ocean without Shores 
Biological Diversity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 – Monetising that which sustains life 
Channi is dishonest and Kejriwal an honest man? 
Urgent Need to Raise Budget Allocations for Health Sector 
Thank Goodness Ilan Pappe is no Longer Alone on the Barricades Booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine: To give or not to give? 
CPSE disinvestment- Valuation approach flawed, Imprudent to ignore R&D effort in CPSEs at the cost of self-reliance 
The Ukraine Riddle & the War of Words 
Neoliberalism, Stress, and Sex 
A Very Long War – From Vietnam to Afghanistan with Detours Along the Way 
Palestine: Between a Rising Tide and Apartheid – Environmental Justice 
Subhash Chandra Bose: Memoirs of the North East India 
Ethnocracy invading India’s democracy 
Identifying Six Most Urgent Priorities of India in Exceptionally Difficult and Uncertain Times 
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