Remembering the science and activism of Richard Levins in the time of corona The resurgence of infectious disease is but one manifestation of a more general crisis: the eco-social distress syndrome—the pervasive multilevel crisis of dysfunctional relations within our species and between it and the rest of nature…It is both a generic crisis of the human species and a specific[Read More…]
The brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has thrust the issue of police brutality on the consciousness of the whole world. There have been expressions of protests throughout the world, including in places like Syria and Greece. Police brutality has a long history in the United States. In southern, cotton-producing US, a lot of the early policing was linked[Read More…]
Innocent brothers and sisters it’s time to wake up, wake up, wake up Brothers and sisters it’s time to say something, do something, make ’em Mmm I wonder, how many Blacks lives, how many Black lives How many heartbeats turned into flatlines – “How Many” by Miguel Just when the news about the way African-Americans were being disproportionately affected by the[Read More…]
About a month ago, when, as it seems now, the covid-19 world was still young and economy reopenings were still few, Mike Davis, the American labor organizer, wrote an ominous piece titled, Reopening the Economy Will Send Us to Hell. It almost seemed contrary to the common wisdom that the world needed to reopen as it was choking because of[Read More…]
How should ordinary citizens understand the nature of responsibility in the case of the recurring deaths of migrant workers that they are witnessing? So many have died on the road, absolutely needlessly, in the process of trying to escape death by hunger which the Indian Covid-19 lockdown was making a reality. India has a very large number of (internal) migrant[Read More…]
The world watches in stupefaction as the numbers of those infected and dead in the US has continued to grow at an alarming rate. The superpower is on its knees. A pandemic that has cost it millions of jobs and unheard of breadlines that stretch for miles. The first world wonder that spearheaded the world’s green revolution, whose farmers “feed[Read More…]
When the lockdown extension was announced, to continue till May 3, a lot of the “twitterati” jumped on the opportunity to show off their Star Wars meme familiarity. In a reference to a long tradition of greeting the date, 4th of May, of “May the 4th (also called Star Wars Day)” each year with the pun on a popular line[Read More…]
Heatwave in U.S.: From Coast to Coast, Millions Affected 
Saangla Tragedy A Wake-up Call For Safety of Himalyan Travellers 
Afghanistan, Failure and Second Thoughts 
68th Anniversary of the Moncada Attack 
Vaccination among women 11% lower than in men in Madhya Pradesh 
Sarpatta Parambarai – A straw drawn from the Children of Ghetto 
After the Apocalypse – America’s Role in a World Transformed 
Corruption of Police Devastates Human Lives 
Cartoon by K.P.Sasi 
The Existential Question of Our Age 
Why Landslides Are Becoming More Frequent and Destructive 
Sharks With NO Water 
The case for ecocentric socialism: Part 1 
Letter from drone war whistleblower Daniel Hale to Judge Liam O’Grady 
Expanding the buffet of choices for preventing HIV 
Medical Complicity With Torture In Israel 
Sidhu’s Politics & Congress! 
Periyar was not against Hindi as a language but opposed imposition of an alien culture on Dravidian people 
Just the Right Time to Bring Overdue Panchayati Raj Reforms 
A Question of Strategy – Farmers Stir and Its Foes 
Don’t Cry For Lifta: Palestinians Will Endure 
Cuba is an example of resistance, says Mexican president while wants to replace OAS 
Khori Gaon residents: Victims not ‘encroachers’ 
Disturbing Trend on the Rise of Harassment Against Asian-Americans 
The Evolving Debate on COVID-19 Origin and Its Missing Component 
Lonely and Old : The challenge of India’s seniors 
Brief notes on the African Sultans of Mediaeval Bengal 
Tibet and Xinjiyang: Cultural Revolution From Above 
Greenwashing the Tokyo Olympic Games 
Voices from the Covid Battlefield – Episode Four 
Right of Conquest – a racist doctrine 
Remembering Comrade Arvind 
New Studies on High Risks of Wireless Devices and Non-Ionizing Radiation 
Apocalypse 
“Let Cuba live”: Lula, Correa, Cornel West and 400 Leading Personalities of the World Demand to U.S. President Biden The vacant chair 
Farmers’ Struggle Challenges Modi Government’s Neo-Fascist Tyranny 
Covid lockdown forces Adivasis in MP to go back to their roots 
Stop Deep-Sea Mining 
Pakistan’s geo-economics is working well 
Dear Authors and Readers of Countercurrents, You may all know Sheshu Babu an author for CC for long time. Most of our old authors may have received at least one thoughtful comment from him. In the early days, he used to read all CC articles and post a thoughtful comment for each article. Then one day, another CC author Emily[Read More…]
