October 7: A History in Threads
What follows is the final installment of ‘October 7: A History in Threads,’ which connects the present to the past 141 years of Zionism and Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Please…
Priti Gulati Cox
Starvation in Sudan: As in Gaza, the Deprivation Is Deliberate
by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox For months, we’ve all been able to stay reasonably informed about the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. But there’s another horrific war that’s gotten…
Dear White Friends: Can You Smell the Yellow Roses of Dier al-Balah?
by Priti Gulati Cox with Stan Cox One of the first things that I heard from people when I immigrated to the United States from the Global South in early…
Armed by Washington, Israel Trashes the Genocide Convention
by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox It’s been almost two months since the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to stop killing Gazans and destroying their means of subsistence.…
Why This Kansan Won’t be Voting for Biden
“Liberals are doomed to destroy themselves inside out. And they are militantly out of touch with the rest of the world.” That’s from Tamara Nassar—an associate editor of The Electronic…
The Israel-India-U.S. Triangle
by Priti Gulati Cox & Stan Cox In 1981, India’s post office issued a stamp showing the flags of India and occupied Palestine flying side by side above the phrase “Solidarity with…
Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda
by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been making the rounds ever since the rise of…
That Other War – Struggle and Suffering in Sudan
by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox It’s been devastating, even if no one’s paying attention. Three months of fighting in Sudan between the army and a paramilitary group called…
Between a Yoga Mat and a Hard Place – The Violent Urge for Supremacy in the World’s Two Largest Democracies
by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox Are you worried about the rising political power of violent white nationalists in America? Well, you’ve got plenty of company, including U.S. national security and…
A Tale of Two Mothers: Dying with Dignity and What Makes That Possible
by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox So many crises — from war to mass species die-offs to climate meltdown — afflict our world that we often don’t take time…
Are Green Resource Wars Looming?
by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox The Burden of Massive EV Batteries Will Be Borne by People and Ecosystems Much of the excitement over the Inflation Reduction Act, which…
Flag of Atrocities—Caste, Present and Future: Bilkis Bano
One thing is constant in India: violence. The perpetrators are the same; only the faces of those who encounter and resist the violence change. In India, or JatiIndia — my…
Lost Yet Connected in Time: Brown, Peltier, Melaku-Bello, Abu-Jamal, and Assange
No, because the face of a little girl in Bangladesh, or a little boy in Cambodia, and the thought of a nuclear blast going off close enough to them for…
Kansas Trusted Women
The “Vote Yes” side screamed at us that we wanted to kill babies. Their skillfully branded mother-and-child logo and cynical three-word slogan “Value Them Both” were everywhere here in Salina,…
The Gritty Reality of Solar Power
by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox Time is fast running out. The world’s affluent nations, with their abundant greenhouse emissions, have to finally drag themselves across the starting line…
Reading Between Blinken’s Li(n)es
Losses on both sides were profound — U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken, May 25 press conference with Israel’s prime minister Netanyahu in Israel, AlJazeera. (All of the following li(n)es…
A Dark Earth Day
The ‘New Deal’ part of the Green New Deal is mostly good and necessary. But the ‘Green’ part has a big hole at its center: the lack of a direct…
Mumia Abu-Jamal, the Injustice Industrial Complex, and the Human Miasma
As his 67th birthday nears, and Pennsylvania political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal faces challenging and potentially fatal health crises, his legal case is still slowly winding its way through the arduous…
Free Sanaa Seif !
It is outrageous from the beginning that she was arrested and prosecuted instead of investigating the physical assault against her… The sentence shows the status of the Egyptian judiciary today, which…
JatiIndia Flag of Atrocities Caste, Present and Future: Thangjam Manorama
On this International Women’s Day let’s take a moment to remember one of JatiIndia’s victims, 32-year-old Thangjam Manorama from Manipur, India who was hauled out of her home at night,…
JatiIndia Flag of Atrocities Caste, Present and Future: The Farmer We See and the Farmer We Don’t
The new farm laws will make it more difficult for farmers to earn an income, said R.S. Amaresh, a 65-year-old farmer from Renukapura village in Challakere taluk of Chitradurga district.…
JatiIndia Flag of Atrocities Caste, Present and Future: Munawar Faruqui
The intruder [Gaur] was referring not to a joke Faruqui had just made, but one that he’d uploaded on YouTube in April 2020. It referenced Rama, a widely worshipped Hindu…
Freedomwashing
We make equipment, we give it to our so-called allies[in the Middle East], who we don’t even know who the hell they are… 2,300 Humvees sent over. A couple of…
JatiIndia Flag of Atrocities Caste, Present and Future: Masrat Zahra
“Rescue us from the sub-jail - what you call the media ‘facilitation’ centre,” reads a sign held up by a pair of, what you, JatiIndia — my name for this…
Patterns of Occupied Palestine: Goodbye Trump, Hello Status Quo
Politically, there is a clear difference between Biden and Trump, but for the Palestinians, they both favor Israel over us — Palestinian taxi driver Ahmed Zayed, former member of Fatah,…
JatiIndia Flag of the Week
Atrocities Caste, Present and Future Sandip, Ramu, Lavkush and Ravi. Those are the names of the upper-caste Thakurs who tortured and gang-raped a 19-year-old girl in Hathras, Utter Pradesh, JatiIndia,…
JatiIndia: Atrocities Caste, Present and Future
The jingoist nation and nationalism have got weaponized by the political class to destroy dissent and polarize people. The mass frenzy has accomplished complete derationalization and inversion of meanings where…
Purple Derechos
I am one of those who did not obtain help to fix the house. I am living in it because I am not the owner of the house I’ve been…
Black Women’s Lives Matter in the USA and the UK: Breonna Taylor and Belly Mujinga
Why impose punishment before the facts have been fully assembled? Why have the chief and the mayor created a termination document amped up with hyperbole? Unfortunately, the answer is that…
A Walk With George Floyd in Tiffany’s Shoes
What I can’t do is change my skin color for y’all… Just like when I go to work everyday, it’s a choice… no matter what happens in that day, good…
American While Black
The State’s knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on a Black man’s neck. That’s what it took BLACK LIVES MATTER America to take to the young but deadly pandemic…
This Summer We’ll Hear the Silencin’ / 70K Dead in the USA (and Counting)
Photo by John Epic taken outside Kansas’ 1st District Congress member @RogerMarshallMD’s office in Salina, Kansas, May 4 Yesterday, May 4, marked the 50th Anniversary of the Kent State University…
Patterns of Occupied Palestine and Kashmir: Part 4 of Uncountable
Aaj Woh Kashmir Hai Mehkoom-O-Faqeer Kal Jise Ahl-E-Nazar Kehte Thay Iran-E-Sagheer (Today that land of Kashmir, under the heels of the enemy, has become weak, helpless and poor Once known…
One Pound Capitalism, a Pinch of Democracy, and Leonard Peltier’s Thanksgiving Statement
(Includes a meal brought to you by Discomfort Foods) I’ve been living on Custer Street in Salina, Kansas since the day I moved to the United States from India in…
One Pound Capitalism, a Pinch of Democracy, and an Impeachment
(Includes a recipe brought to you by Discomfort Foods) In February 2018 on Fox News, Laura Ingraham ended her interview with former CIA director James Woolsey by asking him if…
Patterns of Occupied Palestine: Part 3 of Uncountable
Two things in America create "bipartisanship": support for Israel's apartheid regime and support for endless US war and intervention around the world. — Ali Abunimah, October 16. It’s September-October and…
Was it a Thumbs Up Sign or a Finger Gun Pointing at Us?
I have to say it doesn’t take very long for Kansas’ 1st district Rep. Roger Marshall and his staff to feel like as though they are the victims of their…
Patterns of Occupied Palestine: Part 2 of Uncountable
What do Shahed Amer al-Bayoumi, Abdel-Raouf Salha, Arafat Jaradat, Ayoub Asaleya, Mohammed Suleiman, Sawsan Ali Dawud Mansour, Mohammad H., Isma’il Muslem Hamad Abu Bteihan, Ala Ziad Abu ‘Aasi, Fadi al-Darbi,…
Patterns of Occupied Palestine: Part 1 of Uncountable
There is no one poster child who embodies the struggle of the Palestinian people living in the shadow of Israeli settlers and military occupation. Every Palestinian child, woman, and man…
“Maria! Maria! it was Maria that Destroyed Us!”: The Human Story
This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water — Donald Trump, INDEPENDENT, September 29, 2017 Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. One and a half…
Mothers of Exiles: For Many, the Child-Separation Ordeal May Never End
Co-Written by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox From the early days of the Trump administration, the White House and Justice Department have obsessively sought to separate asylum-seeking parents from…
A Confrontation With Kobach’s Chamcha (Lackey, in Hindi)
As I write this, Kris Kobach, the ‘He Was Trump Before Trump’ Republican nominee for Governor of Kansas, along with Donald himself, are getting ready for a rally in Topeka…
Finding Her Voice In a Deaf “Homeland”
Our “liberal” media push back when riled up MAGA heads spit venom laced with ignorance and stupidity. But the same media turn a deaf ear to the many articulate voices…
Arms of America: From Yemen to Florida
Co-Written by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox The United States government views human rights not as the foundation of human dignity but as an impediment to corporate profits. —…
“All I Wish is for Palestine to be Free” — Freedom Fighter Ahed Tamimi
The Palestinian cause is not just for Palestinians, not even just for Arabs. The Palestinian cause is a humanitarian cause. What makes me happy is to see the humanitarians of…
The Assassination of Dissent, at Point-Blank Range
If I were to describe Islam in three words, there is nothing there besides sex, crime and murder. So the question for you is not whether Rohingya will stay here…
India Celebrates Democracy, Kashmir Cries Hypocrisy
India wants to reap the benefits of Islamophobia from which the world is suffering…. the Indian government has to reconcile its own people to body bags coming from Kashmir…. If…
Zionutva: A Hate Story
Sandwiched between the months of June — which saw the 50th anniversary of Israel’s Palestine occupation — and August — the 71st anniversary of India’s Independence from British rule and…
March 8, 2017, Yet Another Day Without a Dalit or Adivasi Woman
We must create a society in which women – including Black women, Native women, poor women, immigrant women,[Dalit and Adivasi women], disabled women, Muslim women, lesbian queer and trans women –…
Fifteen Years After The 2002 Gujarat Pogrom,The Fight For Accountability And Justice Continues
Salim Khan, a Muslim driver was burnt alive after a message was passed on the police wireless that a Muslim driver was coming that way. On the night of February…
The Indomitable Teesta Under Attack….Again
7 in the series JatiIndia: A Flag of Atrocities Caste, Present and Future For more than a quarter century, journalist/activist Teesta Setalvad has worked tirelessly to ensure that India’s Constitution…
11/8: America’s Got President & India’s Got No Cash
It was about 8:00 on the morning of November 9 in Mumbai, India. I sat down with the internet to talk with my husband Stan in Kansas, where it was…
Now You Don’t See Me, Now You Don’t-JatiIndia: A Flag of Atrocities Caste, Present And Future
An interview with MuslimPress Why did you choose the name “Jatiindia” for your work? What’s the significance of this name? Inequality exists in societies all across the globe. Designed by…
President Obama: Before The Empire Falls, Free Leonard Peltier And Mumia Abu-Jamal
Man, I dream of just being able to paint. Go to sleep when I want, get up when I want, eat when I want. Try to enjoy what’s left for…
Unfinished Portrait
Unfinished Portrait is a project in perpetuity, tracking the footsteps of our post- 9/11, post-Iraq War world.I began work on the project in 2005. And, today, eleven years later, the…
Drone Unknowns: “I No Longer Love Blue Skies”
I got involved in the whole drones process because I was representing people in Guantanamo Bay. And when President Obama came into office he says we’re going to close Guantanamo…
The Biggest Elephant In Our Rooms Stands 5’2” Tall, And Her Name Is Chelsea
Presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein visited Topeka, Kansas on July 2, and I was there. Listening to her make her case that afternoon was like a breath of fresh air…
All That Glitters Is Feardom- Go Green, Not Purple
If Salvador Dali were around today he might have captured the mood of the nation best in a painting. But, you could simulate one for yourself by piecing together these…
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