I’m seated in the police Zoom briefing with other council representatives for my small seaside town in England. Our Chief Inspector is telling us about the crisis we have with soaring heroin addiction in the town. The recent surge is contributing to a general increase in crime. The next section of the briefing is about the future use of police[Read More…]
The NATO & US backed war on Afghanistan was launched 7th October 2001, just a month after 9/11, in what most thought would be a lightning war and a stepping stone onto the real focus, the Middle East. 19 years later and the US is still trying to extricate itself out of the longest war in its history, having failed[Read More…]
I have just arrived in Hiroshima with a group of Japanese “Okinawa to Hiroshima peace walkers” who had spent nearly two months walking Japanese roads protesting U.S. militarism. While we were walking, an Afghan peace march that had set off in May was enduring 700km of Afghan roadsides, poorly shod, from Helmand province to Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul. Our march[Read More…]
as told to Maya Evans February 21, 2017 This is a story about Farzana, translated by her daughter Zarghuna and written up by Maya Evans When I was six life was good; I didn’t know anything outside my mother and father’s world. In the village where I lived it was possible to see the mud houses from far away. The Baba Mountains[Read More…]
VCNV organised a 150 mile peace walk between 28th May to 10th June, from downtown Chicago to Thomson Prison, a new supermax federal facility due to open next summer with 1,900 solitary confinement cells. The U.S. currently incarcerates 2.3 million people, that’s 10% of the population, or 25% of world prisoners. Nationally, Blacks and Latinos are 5 times more likely to be incarcerated than Whites, and[Read More…]
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 
Demonising Muslims: How the act is rooted in a cynical reading of Islamic scriptures! 
Teesta Setalvad Case – ‘Asatyameva Jayate’ has triumphed 
Turkey retracts veto on Sweden, Finland joining NATO amid war summit in Madrid 
US announces plans to flood Europe with troops and weapons Paradigm for peace applied to Russia, Ukraine, and the US: Proposal for a peaceful pathway forward – Part 4B 
Need to look beyond the power struggle in Maharashtra 
“Agnipath” Envisages the Saffron-path towards Full-fledged Hindutva Militarisation 
Convenient Omissions: The Ukraine-EU Candidacy Show 
Palestinians ‘Are Not Animals in a Zoo’: On Kanafani and the Need to Redefine the Role of the ‘Victim Intellectual’ 
The United States Extends Its Military Reach Into Zambia 
Leading Media Organizations Condemn Arrest of Mohammed Zubair and Demand His Release 
Sri Lanka’s economy hits “rock bottom” as the country faces hunger, malnutrition and starvation 
Dalit agricultural Labour and Industrial workers protest near Assembly house in Chandigarh 
In The Name Of Hate 
Indian Muslims for Secular Democracy condemns the brutal murder of Kanhaiya Lal Paradigm for peace applied to Russia, Ukraine and the US: Proposal for a peaceful pathway forward – Part 4 A 
Overruling Roe v Wade: The International Dimension Agnipath Scheme: A path to stronger Armed Forces? 
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