It was around noon and I was texting a friend about who-knows-what when I added, almost as an afterthought: “tho they seem to be invading the Capitol at the mo.” I wasn’t faintly as blasé as that may sound on January 6th, especially when it became ever clearer who “they” were and what they were doing. Five people would die[Read More…]
If you still follow the mainstream media, you’re probably part of the 38% of registered voters who knew something about the op-ed Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) published in the New York Times early in June, exhorting the president to use the Insurrection Act to “restore order to our streets.” This was in response to what he called “anarchy” but others saw as peaceful Black Lives Matter[Read More…]
Bizarrely enough, the spate of phone calls from recruiters began a couple of years ago. The first ones came from the Army, next the Marines, and then other branches of the military. I’m decades past enlistment age. I’ve been publicly antiwar for most of that time and come from a family that was last involved with a military when my[Read More…]
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We Have Seen This Movie Before: The Fascists Have Arrived 
To All Who Care about Humanity’s and the Planet’s Future – Petition Campaign 
Outlook Is Darkening: Warns EU Central Bank 
UK Pound Absolutely Hammered As It Slides To Its Lowest Level Against U.S. Dollar Since 1971 
India should care for its elder citizens 
Whitewashing at Shinzo Abe’s State Funeral 
Manual Scavenging: Deep Rooted Problem In India 
Shankar Guha Niyogi and experiments of revolutionary creation 
Why Are Wild Horses Brutally Uprooted From Public Lands While Private Livestock Can Stay? 
Open Letter to the MAGA Crowd 
Avoiding a War without a Winner: How we Could Ease the Deadly US-China Dispute 
Indian Diaspora becoming vanguards of assertive Hindutva 
Away with all Babadom? A Peace Proposal that Can Give More Immediate Results in Ukraine 
Aadhaar number database, a tool for electoral ‘surveillance’ 
The Narmada Sardar Sarovar Project – The truth about the dam(ned) delay 
Starting A Dialogue 
Defying Warning, Iranians’ Anti-hijab Protest Continues For 10th Night: 57 Deaths 
From Exodus to Marvel: A Brief History of Hollywood’s Justification of Israeli War Crimes 
Towards Understanding Injustice, Inequality, Violence and Social Problems Blocking Human Progress 
The AGE of FLOWERS 
Russian Holiday; A War Time Travelogue 
Shaheed Hospital, created and nurtured by workers, is an inspiration for people’s movement for health for all 
In memory of Darshan Singh Canadian on martyrdom anniversary 
Europe’s Unquestioning Following of USA on Ukraine is as Harmful for its Own Interests as it is for World Peace 
Is the USA Scoring Self-Goals With Its Ukraine Policy? 
Should We Abolish Examinations? 
Rallies Across Africa Demand Global Action, Climate Justice Ahead of UN Summit 
A Peep into the spirit of China 
Breaching Human Rights: Australia, Climate Change and the Torres Strait Islands 
Leicester Spells “Communal” Tension For British Society? 
Ensuring Sri Lanka’s Compliance with UNHRC Resolutions 
Tribute to Justice O.Chinnappa Reddy on his birth Centenary 
Apologising to Bilkis Bano Who Scuttled the Ukraine Peace Process, and What Are the Future Prospects 
What can Unite India: ‘Hindu Spiritualism or ‘Unity in Diversity’? 
Messing Up the Bread Basket–Changes in Ukraine Farming Cause for Serious Concern 
Connecting the Dots Between Climate Devastation and Fossil Fuel Profits 
Understanding Libya’s Relentless Destabilization 
Havoc and misery caused by recent floods in Bengaluru, Pakistan and Assam are not only natural disasters but are man made and due to climate change. Over exploitation of urban land and water resources by greedy private real estate developers perhaps the chief cause of floods. Media relentlessly focused on flooded upscale villas, their swanky automobiles of super rich in[Read More…]
