Not long ago, streets and roads of primary importance in significant parts of Delhi were subjected to a rampant, incessant renaming spree. The Akbar Road, for instance, an iconic road in Central Delhi was renamed Maharana Pratap road overnight. The given reason- the inglorious past of the Mughal and British figures in comparison with the shining history of the Hindu[Read More…]
‘You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations.’ Letter from Birmingham Jail written by Martin Luther King Jr, in 1963 on the margins of a newspaper in an Alabama Jail was an answer to some ‘white’ clergymen who[Read More…]
Chinua Achebe’s ‘There was a country’, a compelling account of Nigerian Civil War and the history of Biafra, not only details, from his perspective, the events that lead to the war and the war itself, but also throws light on various other relevant issues and topics, otherwise subdued and forgotten in the graphs and numerical of the war figures. Achebe[Read More…]
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How PR is Preventing Awareness of Global Warming 
Massacre Inside High Security Welikada Prison in Sri Lanka 
The Patriarchal Regulation of Female Sexuality in India 
Debajyoti Misra on his music for Aparajito 
Two opinions on the US, and no extra comment 
Collectively Stronger Paradigm for peace applied to Russia, Ukraine, and the US: Proposal for a peaceful pathway forward – Part 4F 
Justice in Crisis – 2 
Happy B-Day USA 
How sincere is the government in its commitment to natural farming? 
The Major Questions Doctrine: The US Supreme Court Blunts the EPA 
U.S.-Led Holy War to Conquer Russia and China Declared by Pompeo 
How Sri Lanka’s militarized response to Covid led to the unraveling of a nation 
Release Chandrashekhar Azad and his 21 associates now 
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Fr. Stan Swamy: his legacy lives forever! 
Political Parties To Receive Foreign Donation? 
Propaganda, Fact checks and Fake news busting sites 
Why Leprosy Should Get Better Priority in Health Programs Paradigm for peace applied to Russia, Ukraine, and the US: Proposal for a peaceful pathway forward – Part 4D 
Japan: Trials and Tribulations of a Land of “Honorary Whites” 
Taming of a Serpent: The Case of Nupur Sharma and the Supreme Court 
Dangerous trends and need for greater restraint and autonomous institutions 
Some pious deeds 
US Marine Press Takes on Hothouse Earth 
Chomsky on Israeli Apartheid, Celebrity Activists, BDS and the One-State Solution 
The United States Contests the Chinese Belt and Road with a Private Corporation 
Colombia: You Can’t Elect an End to Exploitation 
NATO prepares for “warfighting against nuclear-armed peer-competitors” Paradigm for peace applied to Russia, Ukraine, and the US: Proposal for a peaceful pathway forward – Part 4C 
India–Why Efforts for the Homeless Need A Big Boost 
Privatisation of PSU banks- legal and other implications 
Exorbitant military spending sacrifices public well-being 
Why America’s nuclear threat to Russia now is bigger than the Soviet nuclear threat to America was in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 
How the American Legislative Exchange Council Turns Disinformation Into Law 
It’s All Over Now Baby Red, White and Blue 
America’s Anger Problem 
Binu Mathew, the editor of Countercurrents.org and the editorial team have been working selflessly with minimal funds and accepting no advertisements. Besides CC abhors foreign institutional funding, corporate funding or government aid. It has been in existence for about two decades and standing on the side of the people and taking an anti-establishment stance. To that extent it is like[Read More…]
