Gaza, I write this in total Despair!
I write this in total despair. I don’t generally write articles. I’m an editor. I let others speak through my website, Countercurrents.org. Only when no one else is standing up,…
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Recipes for Revolution, Protein for Power, Meat for Change
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you—then you eat them." —Adapted for the Protein Revolution Introduction India's marginalized communities have been denied not just…
The Plot Against America
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America As I write this in early 2025, a quiet revolution is unfolding within the U.S. government.…
The Fuhrer Is Here
This an article I wrote on 16 December 2002, just after Modi was re-elected as CM of Gujrat for a second term. For some strange reasons, the article can't be…
Solidarity is the Political Version of Love
The moral of the story, don’t hold on to something as silly as copyright. We are here to change society. Disseminate your articles/videos/photos or whatever content you produce, through as…
Climate Change: Why Should The Global South Pay For The Profligacy Of The Likes Of Taylor Swift, Elon Musk?
Climate change is a threat facing the whole of humanity. The real generators of this crisis are the developed economies of the Global North. They found a way to circumvent…
Deaths in Gaza and Us
Death is normal unless if it happens one of our dear and near ones. 40000+ (as per official figures) people have been killed in Gaza. According to The Lancet almost…
Landslide In Wayanad Is Only The Beginning!
Here is an AI-generated Podcast based on the article On the morning of July 30, a huge landslide occurred at Mundakkai, in the mountainous district of Wayanad, Kerala, India. 282…
Stories that can bring a positive change deserve to be called news: Binu Mathew
At a time when the Indian media is increasingly being controlled by the rich and dominated by the caste elites, Countercurrents.org has set up an example of giving space to…
A People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy – 2.0
This is an updated version of the “People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy” that Countercurrents.org published on 15th August 2020, where we set out a broad framework on how India should…
Countercurrents.org Resisting Fascism Since 2002; Save This People’s Journal; Make Liberal Financial Contributions for Its Survival. Now!
I have before me the following documents: “Why should Binu Mathew while struggling day and night to make the voices for justice heard, struggle even today with appeals for subscriptions?”…
Netanyahu’s War Cabinet Meeting & its Musings over a People’s Journal and Corporate Press
Netanyahu: Now that a temporary truce is on, brief me about developments at the media front. War Cabinet Member (WCM): Sir, our hit rate is 100% successful. Till 23.11.2023 we…
Adieu, Amma!
My Amma (Malayalam word for Mother) passed away on August 22, 2023 at 3.10 AM. It is always difficult to deal with the passing of a parent, that too one’s…
Farewell to Sasi etta, brother K.P. Sasi
Our beloved K.P.Sasi is no more. Filmmaker, cartoonist, writer, mentor, friend and above all tireless activist championing the cause of every underdog, Sasi breathed his last, mid-afternoon this Christmas day…
Floods in South Asia and Climate Change
Havoc and misery caused by recent floods in Bengaluru, Pakistan and Assam are not only natural disasters but are man made and due to climate change. Over exploitation of urban…
Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
The short answer: No, not even close! Nations of the world are only too aware that fossil fuels need to be phased out for two reasons. First, oil is…
Discussing America’s role in the Syrian civil war: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky
by Noam Chomsky and Raghav Kaushik This interview with world-renowned scholar and leading dissident Noam Chomsky has two goals. The primary goal is to understand America’s role in one of…
‘Toofan Aur Deeya’ (Storm and Lamp) – Why Countercurrents should not get extinguished
Binu Mathew, the editor of Countercurrents.org and the editorial team have been working selflessly with minimal funds and accepting no advertisements. Besides CC abhors foreign institutional funding, corporate funding or…
Why Readers Should Support Countercurrents
Today the mass media are controlled by powerholders and corporate oligarchs. And therefore to obtain a true picture of what is going on in the world, readers must turn to…
Why Countercurrents Should Be Sustained: Ram Puniyani
Dear Friends We are passing through difficult times. As sectarian nationalism is increasing its grip on the state and society intolerance is rising. The mainstream media has been taken over…
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This year has been one of the toughest. With the raging pandemic, climate crisis, wars, the failure in Glasgow..... We also have moments to celebrate with the victory of the…
Documentary on Kandhamal by K.P Sasi released on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9T5fmc05to This year there was international outrage when a frail 84-year-old Jesuit priest with Parkinson’s disease, Stan Swamy, died after being held in an Indian jail in inhumane conditions, on…
Kindly Help Our Author Sheshu Babu
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…
When Cow Dung Meets Coronavirus
“Cow dung, cow urine didn’t work. Groundless argument. Tomorrow I will eat fish”. In mid-May this year, this simple Facebook post about the futility of bovine waste as a cure…
Caste, Class and India’s Covid Catastrophe
Covid-19 patients dying on the streets gasping for oxygen. Hundreds of wailing, desperate folks searching for hospital beds to access treatment. Even the dead denied dignified funerals, their bodies dumped…
When death floats down the Ganga
Allahabad: The recent images of bloating human bodies floating on the Ganga, with crows and dogs picking on the carcasses have shocked the nation and made headlines around the world.…
Disha Ravi, Sophie Scholl And The Unravelling Of Indian Fascism
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’s Facebook versus India’s Farmers
The tug-of-war between Indian farmers and government over new laws facilitating corporate takeover of the country’s agriculture is getting uglier by the hour and likely to get quite bloody too.…
Keep Countercurrents Alive ! An Appeal From Satya Sagar
For nearly two decades now Countercurrents has provided millions of readers around the world with deep insights and analysis of news, events, trends that are usually ignored by mainstream media.…
Indian farmers challenge return of ‘Company Raj’
The ongoing siege of the national capital New Delhi by hundreds of thousands of farmers represents, perhaps, the biggest revolt against ‘Company Raj’ since India’s First War of Independence way…
Body, Nation and Resistance in the times of COVID-19
This article is based on the 25th Chandrashekar Memorial Lecture delivered on 20 September 2020. The original lecture was delivered in Hindi and the event was organized by Punashcha, the…
A People’s Manifesto for Ecological Democracy
Our planet is not a lump of inanimate matter circling the sun every year, providing humans free lodging, boarding and endless resources to exploit recklessly. She is a living, breathing,…
Fascism: Classical and present form – differ only in method and strategy
In recent times, the term ‘fascism’ has become so widely used that it has become difficult to define it precisely. It is often used as a metaphor by the fiercest…
Global Pandemic And Global Warming
The COVID-19 has taught us that we are in an emergency. In 2019 a teenager named Greta Thumberg was crying hoarse that we are in an emergency and no one…
Peace Building Too Little or Too Late?
I see a lot of peace building efforts in North East Delhi which was the hub of the recent riots. If these peace building measures happened before the riots the…
Linked Dangers To Civilization
A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book, which discusses the most serious dangers which the world faces today. The book may be…
The NPR Encounter
On hearing the door bell ringing, Mr. Krishna Murthy got up from his reclining chair and walked to the front door with difficulty. He was experiencing cramps in both his…
In India What We Are Seeing Is The Symptoms Of Fascism: Noam Chomsky
by Karthik Ramanathan / Noam Chomsky An interview I did with Noam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics, University of Arizona at his office in Tucson. Noam Chomsky taught at MIT for…
What If We Nuke a City?
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Defend The Indian Constitution! Defend Diversity, Dialogue, Democracy!
By Forum for the Defence of the Indian Constitution For several weeks now, the people of India have hit the streets in a historic protest across the countryagainst the Citizenship…
I Will Give My Blood:Chandrasekhar Azad
Historic speech given by Chandrasekhar Azad on the steps of Delhi Jama Masjid "Jai Bhim! This is a bigger fight. CAA and NRC will break this country and we are…
“They’re killing us like dogs” – A Massacre in Bolivia and a Plea for Help
I am writing from Bolivia just days after witnessing the November 19 military massacre at the Senkata gas plant in the indigenous city of El Alto, and the tear-gassing of…
The fatal nexus – Atmospheric CO2 and the mass extinction of species
As the concentration of atmospheric CO2has risen to 408 ppm and the total greenhouse gas level, including methane and nitrous oxide, combine to near500 parts per million CO2-equivalent, the stability…
Gauri Lankesh’s Martyrdom In Global Context
We lost Gauri Lankesh to terrorism on 5th September 2017. This terrorism has a context. In this article I’ll be trying to put Gauri’s martyrdom into global context. When I…
India Should Not Go The Nazi Way But Give Citizenship To 1.9 Million People Left Out Of The Assam NRC List
Over 1.9 million people have been left out of the final National Register of Citizens or NRC - a list intended to identify legal residents and weed out illegal immigrants…
Kashmir: The Worst Conflict Area In The World
It won’t be an exaggeration to say Kashmir is the worst conflict area in the world. Look anywhere else in the world where there are conflicts, there is no communication…
Kashmir Caged: Fact Finding Report
We spent five days (9-13 August 2019) traveling extensively in Kashmir. Our visit began on 9 August 2019 – four days after the Indian government abrogated Articles 370 and 35A,…
The Article 370 Amendments: Key Legal Issues
In this post, I will attempt to break down the constitutional changes to Article 370, and highlight some key legal issues surrounding them. In essence, to understand what has happened…
India Is Becoming A Police State
It looks like India is becoming a police state. With the passage of three amendments to existing laws the central government is impinging upon the powers delegated to the states,…
Rahul Gandhi Must Rediscover India
Rahul Gandhi has finally resigned. His resignation letter is a brutally frank one. In this letter he has confessed of being betrayed by his party mates and fighting a lonely…
After Assam, Government of India to Identify Foreigners Across India
Today in India the fascist BJP Government at the Centre announced that henceforth all District magistrates in all States of India have the power and are encouraged to track and…
Eid Mubarak! From Hindu Rashtra
Eid Mubarak! I’m writing this article on the eve of Eid. Two weeks after the Modi 2.0 government was installed in India. When the election results came out on May…
Money, Media And The Climate Crisis
Immediate action is needed to save the future The central problem which the world faces in its efforts to avoid catastrophic climate change is a contrast of time scales. In…
Sri Lanka’s Sacred Games | Satya Sagar
In the times we live in, where smoke and mirrors are the world’s two chief weapons of war, fiction is a better guide to contemporary events than ‘facts’ presented by…
10 Questions on Sri Lanka Easter Day Bombings?
The Sri Lanka Easter bombings that killed more than 350 people including foreign nationals raise several pertinent questions Why did the bombings received far less foreign media coverage than Christ…
A Collector’s Delight: 21 Films by K.P. Sasi
K.P Sasi is one of the unsung heroes of Indian parallel cinema movement. His repertoire of films are amazing. From feature films , music videos to a plethora of documentaries…
We Need An Ecological Revolution
I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “We Need An Ecological Revolution”. The book can be freely downloaded and circulated from the following link: http://eacpe.org/app/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/We-need-an-ecological-revolution-John-Scales-Avery.pdf…
What’s Wrong With Our Education System And How Can We Change It!
It’s exam time in India. A time of deep tension for students and parents. All that you’ve learnt in a year will have to reproduced in a two hour written…
Are We Up For A Battle For Peace?
Last night my 11 year old son asked me, “Abba, if war breaks out between India and Pakistan can we go to some other country? What will we do if…
The Fallout of The Balakote Strike
Notwithstanding the claims and counter-claims of India and Pakistan, one thing is now acknowledged from both sides that the Indian Air Force planes entered the Pakistani territory and returned back…
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