Seaspiracy is a powerful new documentary about the hazardous, unruly world of industrial fishing and stomach-churning abuse, overuse, disregard for life, as shown on Netflix, released by Disrupt Studios March 24th 2021. The opening scene of the film sets the tone with a long-shot of an isolated fishing trawler at sea as the voice-over of a former fishing vessel crew[Read More…]
Over Fish, France and UK are having a quarrel. But it is not fish that has started the quarrel. Media reports said: France’s junior minister for European affairs Clement Beane threatened the UK on financial services if Britain failed to grant licenses to French fishermen. Clement Beane said France would retaliate in sectors like banking in the European Union to[Read More…]
An MoU signed between a US company and the Government of Kerala has become a major pre-election controversy in Kerala. The plan under this MoU included deep-sea fishing through hundreds of deep-sea fishing trawlers and several mother vessels in the sea around the Kerala coast. This project is not only against the existing fisheries policy but also has a tremendous[Read More…]
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Sri Lanka’s determined Non-Compliance of UNHRC Resolutions in Defiance of UN and UNHRC Charters 
Palestinian armed struggle: The resistance that dare not speak its name 
The New Idols of the Market Place 
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Black September Massacres in Sri Lanka 
Tribute to Souren Bose on 25th death anniversary 
Daughter of Two Bengals 
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Urgency of Rising above Narrow Interests for Peace and Environment Protection 
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China’s Second Round of Military Drills Near Taiwan After More U.S. Lawmakers Visit The Island 
Western ‘Naturalism’ Disrespects Nonhuman Animals and the Entire Natural World 
Washington Wants a New Cold War—But That’s a Bad Idea 
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India 
Sale of talcum powder to be stopped globally by Johnson & Johnson 
This Is No Time for Climate Complacency 
A Military Rich in Dollars, Poor in People 
RSS’s International Wing Defeated at Californian City of Manteca 
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Taliban Break Up Afghan Women’s Protest in Kabul 
India: 75 Years of Independence 
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