The Four Horsemen of our media apocalypse — Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, and Donald Trump — have ridden roughshod over us this past half-century leaving their hoofprints on our politics, our culture, and our lives. Two of them are gone now, but their legacies, including the News Corporation, the Fox News empire, and a gang of broadcast barbarians[Read More…]
As controversies about the “reopening” of America loom over our lives, nothing seems as intrinsically irrelevant — yet possibly as critically important — as how soon major spectator sports return. If sports don’t trump religion as the opiate of the masses, they have, until recently, been at least the background music of most of our lives. So here’s my[Read More…]
One afternoon in New York City in the spring of 1964, I marched at the head of a small civil rights demonstration, one of the few white people in the group. I was carrying a watermelon. It was a Dick Gregory joke. To say the least, not everyone liked that joke, but I thought it was hilarious, a jab by[Read More…]
COVID-19: South Asia passes the grisly milestone of 15 million cases 
Remembering Sunder Navalkar 
Understanding India’s Migrant Workers’ Crisis through the Prism of Commodity Fetishism 
Butterflies-Why Our Most Beautiful Friends Are In Rapid Decline? 
Land May Be A Deeply Philosophical Issue But Must Face Practical Realities of This World 
The dalit teacher – facing a 360-degree discrimination 
Farmer’s Movement At A Crucial Juncture 
The Limits of Gandhian Non-Violence 
Adolf Hitler: The Definitive Biography (1976). John Toland 
Mein Kampf (1925; 1926) 
Rohingyas: The tale of an ill-decided fate 
Amidst shortages in India unplanned Vaccine Plan stumbles 
Yemen Is a Public Health Catastrophe 
We, the People, the Humanity and Our Entangled Future in Global COVID-19 Pandemic 
40th anniversary of epic 153 of Graham Gooch 
Horn of Africa: A blamegame 
Hunting in Yemen 
How Rich Countries Are Cheating In Climate Change Negotiations 
Save Pollinators Campaign Needed On Urgent Basis As Bees, Butterflies and Birds Face Increasing Risks 
The United States After Trump 
Experts demand compulsory licensing for generic production of a drug against Covid-19 
From Pacifism To Violence and the Dialectic 
PUCL condemns the Unprecedented Attack on Rights Activists by the State Government of Andhra Pradesh and the NIA 
Earth’s Real Treasure 
Rekindle the flame of Martyrs of Sewewala of Punjab on 30th anniversary 
7th night of Belfast riots and protests: Bus set alight and petrol bombs thrown 
Himachal Move For Selling Liquor at Petrol Pumps Will Be Dangerous For Safety 
Can Farmland for the Landless Become A Reality On A Large Scale 
The Cold War, Rebooted and Rebranded 
A Compliment to Bharat Dogra The Global Anti-Eritrea-Ethiopia Agenda 
Bengaltattva vs Hindutva: who will win West Bengal? |Part Three| 
Protests against Pakistan Prime Minister’s comment linking rape to how women dress 
Myanmar’s Citizens Fleeing Persecutions and Violence must be allowed refuge into India 
Is it possible for CBI to probe and prove? 
Mamata’s Call for United Front: Can Democracy be saved in India? 
Pathways for Progress of Farmers’ Movement 
Why Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath Remains the Most Memorable Saga of Displaced Farmers and Migrating Workers 
Fatuous Defence: Australia’s Guided Missile Plans 
From His Solitary Confinement, Marwan Barghouti Holds the Key to Fatah’s Future 
When I founded Countercurrents.org in 2002, Disha Ravi who was arrested for sedition yesterday was a two-year-old toddler. In 2002, the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 370 ppm. Now it is 415 ppm. In just 19 years CO2 levels increased by just over 2ppm/year. The level of cumulative greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, including Methane, Nitrous Oxide etc is[Read More…]
