From campaign finance reform to gun violence to poverty to education to LGBTQ rights,lots of important subjects were ignored by corporate media debate moderators in the presidential (and vice-presidential) debates. All of these topics are urgent and deserve a spotlight on the national stage. But one topic stands out as a non-factor: climate change. Climate change—or, more accurately, climate disruption—is[Read More…]
During the final Presidential candidates’ debate, on October 19th, Hillary Clinton said that workers’ “social security payroll contribution will go up” if she becomes President, and she went on to add, “as will Donald’s — assuming he can’t figure out how to get out of it.” The “Social Security payroll contribution” is the phrase (a euphemism, actually) policymakers customarily use[Read More…]
There is no getting away from the degradation that is taking place, on colossal scale, in US presidential politics. The sense of two dysfunctional candidates beating each other over the remains of the US republic as it suffers the last paroxysm of what might have been an interesting future are all too evident. Sunday’s second presidential debate featured the depravity,[Read More…]
Imagine a volleyball packed with lies being bounced back and forth across a net by one well-practiced in the art of mendacity and the other blissfully unaware of any truth. Then add a referee correcting the lies of one side but not the other, and you have a picture of the debate. The post-debate spin masters on both sides are[Read More…]
It really doesn’t matter that these two creatures loathed and feared in varying degrees should even be conducting a debate. What, after all, is there to dispute? Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump inhabit worlds of the disparately dislikeable, and reaped the bounty of the US with varying degrees of ruthlessness.
The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was a political and cultural abomination. It demonstrated, in both style and substance, the thoroughgoing decay of American capitalist society over many decades. It says a great deal about the US political system that, out of 330 million people in America, the choice for president has been narrowed down to these[Read More…]
Palestinian armed struggle: The resistance that dare not speak its name 
The New Idols of the Market Place 
Red Flags of Cold war in the Indian Ocean: From IS-claimed Easter attacks to Yuan Wang–5 
Black September Massacres in Sri Lanka 
Tribute to Souren Bose on 25th death anniversary 
Daughter of Two Bengals 
PM Modi Idolizes Savarkar: Second Killing Of The True Martyrs 
Iraq Finance Minister Ali Allawi Resigns Over Political Crisis 
Protests of Apple Growers Continue With Resentment over Adverse Impact of Big Business 
This Time the Collapse Will Be Global 
Paradigm for peace applied to Russia, Ukraine, and the US: Proposal for a peaceful pathway forward – Part 4J 
India’s tree lovers get together for a nation-wide tree festival 
Urgency of Rising above Narrow Interests for Peace and Environment Protection 
A ‘holy’ conspiracy? Not quite 
Living on a Planet of Lies 
Nuclear war will eliminate more than 5 billion people – oppose war 
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 
Is it enough to fly the Tricolour to prove one’s patriotism? 
Threat of state-takeover of forests alarms Tripura’s indigenous people 
Groundwater management, farm subsidies & food security- Need to adopt a holistic view 
Following Raid In Trump’s Home, The Far Right Calls For Civil War In The U.S. 
5G Spectrum – Is it a distress sale? CAG may look at it carefully 
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 
European Imperialism and How India and Pakistan Won and Lost August 14-15, 1947 National Freedom Battle for possession of the Tricolour 
Finding new and unfamiliar voices to tackle the climate crisis 
How easy it is to be a patriot 
Taliban Break Up Afghan Women’s Protest in Kabul 
India: 75 Years of Independence 
Opposition to Laal Singh Chaddha is because its story doesn’t fit into BJP’s divisive agenda 
Europe Dries Up 
After 75-years of Independence 
Employees Pension Scheme: Not consistent with human dignity 
Fact-Finding Report of Himmatnagar and Khambhat Riots in Gujarat 
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