Rolling Heads at the Pentagon: Trump as Sacker-in-Chief
A sense of redundancy might encourage calm. The job is done, however well or poorly. The legacy charted. But in the case of President Donald Trump, there is still much…
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It Was NEVER About Biden!!
I usually agree with most of what columnist Caitlin Johnstone offers. Yet, in her latest Op Ed she says that a vote for Biden was NOT against fascism, which will…
Jamia is not merely a University but the Product of the National Movement
Co-Written by Badre Alam Khan & Tarique Anwar It is a historic moment for all of us that Jamia Millia Islamia, a ‘Lusty Child’ of the Non-cooperation, and the Khilafat movement based…
Diversity in Nation Building: Contributes or Hinders?
There is news that in UK, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has unveiled (17/10/2020) 50 Pence 'Diversity coin’ to celebrate Britain’s diverse history and recognise the profound contribution minority communities have made…
Andhra’s Great Reformers and Writers (Part-2)
Cover page of a biography in Telugu on Raghupati Venkata Ratnam Naidu, by renowned historian Ramakrishna Vakulabharanam and Lalita. Ramakrishna led a team of scholars and published a monumental…
Promoting Mental Health- What can we do?
There can be no health without mental health, despite this clear evidence nowhere in the world does mental health enjoy parity with physical health in budgets, policies and practice. According…
Hathras Reporting: Journalist Siddique Kappan And Others Charged With UAPA And Sedition
Journalist Siddique Kappan who is working with the popular Malayalam website Azhimukham.com and three others who were arrested by the UP police on Monday in Mathura while on their way…
Strange Celebrations of the UN 75th Anniversary
Leaders Hated and Feared Make False Claims of Global Peace, Security and Justice “Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Justice in the life of…
The Double Siege – News Media in the Time of Covid-19
Conjuring consent in a post-factual, post-truth scenario Freedom of the press is under siege: from without by the State and its thriving band of storm troopers and from within by…
For years, journalists cheered Assange’s abuse. Now they’ve paved his path to a US gulag
Court hearings in Britain over the US administration’s extradition case against Julian Assange begin in earnest next week. The decade-long saga that brought us to this point should appall anyone…
Death Valley hits 130°F, possibly the highest heat on Earth in over a century
Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes in Death Valley National Park. Temperatures in Death Valley in the U.S. skyrocketed to a blistering 130°F (54.4-degree Celsius) on Sunday. Possibly, it is the highest…
How to Market Traditional Art and Protect Heritage at the Same Time
Some years ago, a local bakery chain in Kerala started making traditional snacks. The one that caught my attention was the Neyyappam, the ghee-fried cake that later made the news…
Newness In Dealing With Life’s Challenges
Life has meaning when there is happiness. Everything that happens brings something new. The more the mind is tuned to see and appreciate this truth, happiness lasts, whatever the situation…
DU Professor Hany Babu’s arrest: Media takes a blinkered view to the issue
The media – particularly Hindi newspapers – has taken a blinkered view to the arrest of Delhi University Professor Hany Babu Musaliyarveettil Tharayil by National Investigative Agency (NIA) on Tuesday,…
Retrenchment, Attack and Arrest of Journalists during COVID 19
The most stringent nationwide lockdown was imposed during the start of covid19 pandemic. This caused widespread retrenchment and job cuts throughout the country. The journalists of mass media have not…
No End to Humiliation of Dalits Even After Death
Does anybody still remember the Dalits of Chakwara, a village around 50km from Jaipur in Rajasthan, who had launched a struggle to gain access to the pond in their village?…
The Hypocrisies of Recognition: The Supreme Court, Native Americans and the McGirt Case
The Supreme Court of the United States has barely had time to gather its collective breath this last few days. Among its decisions, including those dealing with President Donald Trump’s…
Chokehold on diplomat exposes Israel’s special type of apartheid
Nazareth: An Israeli diplomat filed a complaint last week with police after he was pulled to the ground in Jerusalem by four security guards, who knelt on his neck for…
Galwan Valley: The Lessons We Didn’t Learn In 1962
On the evening of 15th June news began coming in of a commanding officer and two Indian soldiers having died in some remote area of Ladakh, in what appeared the…
Pandemic Paxicide
Globally, three million children a year die of hunger or malnourishment according to theworldcounts.com. The site also notes the number is dropping steadily. In a May 2019 editorial ,Voice of America reports, “Today,…
The Soviet Victory Over Nazism 75 Years Ago, And COVID-19
How could the Great Patriotic War in which the Soviet people (including many members of my own family) lost at least 25 million lives, have anything in common with the…
Per Capita Covid-19 Deaths In Anglosphere 5-Eyes Intelligence-Sharing Nations Correlate With Neoliberal Greed
There are huge differences in Covid-19 deaths per million of population (Covid-19 deaths/ M) in the nations of the Anglosphere 5-Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, to whit 4/M (New Zealand), 4/M (Australia),…
India’s COVID Crisis: Increasing vulnerabilities and visible caste-class divide
‘Sorry, we have run out of all words today, National Shame”, said the front page headline of Mumbai Mirror, a sister publication of Times of India, on the horrific…
Rebuilding After Corona
A new freely downloadable book I would like to announce the publication of a book, which discusses the changes that we must make to create a better world after the…
Locked Down and Locking in the New Global Order
On 12 March, British PM Boris Johnson informed the public that families would continue to "lose loved ones before their time" as the coronavirus outbreak worsens. He added: "We've all…
Objectifying. Others
Others are often means to making an income or vast wealth for oneself. With the way that the economy is set up, it is the norm. Here are a few…
Kicking The Habit
Our addiction to fossil fuels can kill us The Industrial Revolution marked the start of a massive human use of fossil fuels. The stored energy from several hundred million years…
Protest Against Citizenship Amendment Act Widens In India, Hundreds of Protestors Detained
Hundreds of protestors were detained across India on Thursday as authorities clamped down on protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. Senior advocate Prashant Bhushan, social activist Harsh Mander, scholar Yogendra…
Students Across India Rise Up In Anger After Jamia Milia Crack Down Against Citizenship Amendment Act
Students rose up across India against the unconstitutional Citizenship Amendment Act after their compatriots in Jamia Milia Islamia were violently beaten up in their campus yesterday. Police in both Delhi…
Why Citizenship Amendment Bill be rejected?
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led government at the centre is all set to introduce the controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in the Parliament on December 9. The existing Citizenship…
Israel’s Aussie Mensch
The Zionist Federation of Australia bestowed in November its 2019 Jerusalem Prize for “exceptional in strengthening Australia-Israel relations” or as Prof. Stuart Rees puts it, ‘for sucking up to Israelis,’…
When the World Observes the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Generally, international days are to celebrate or remember special events or achievements of humanity. These occasions can give understandings about the day and educate the international community on specific issues.…
Rising seas threaten US Pacific nuclear dump
According to reports from the Marshall Islands, plutonium is leaking into the Pacific Ocean from a massive concrete bunker the United States built in the 1950s to dispose of nuclear…
Sufi
Each expression of beauty is an act of love. Every manifestation of love is an act of beauty. To make a warrior’s choice in the clarity of human evolution is…
Terror Grips Kashmir
Terror grips the most militarized zone in the world after India’s Central Government terminated Jammu and Kashmir’s 70-year-old "special status" as the first step towards stripping the disputed region of…
At The Mercy of Rain Gods
Farmers in India do a lot of talking about the weather—especially, it seems, when there is no weather in sight. when the land heats up like a furnace and most…
Venezuela in “Misery” – Lies and Deceit by the Media: Open Letter to the New York Times
NYT - 18 May 2019 To the Editor in CHIEF Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/world/americas/venezuela-economy.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_190518 Subtitle: Butchers have stopped selling meat cuts…
Followers And The Leader
Some folks who were considered fairly intelligent, have fallen under the spell of a man. According to his fervent fans he is much more.He is a politician with a self-measuredfifty-six-inch…
Attacking Iran Would Mean Global Disaster
On Monday, 13 May 2019, the New York Times posted an article with the title “White House Reviews Military Plams Against Iran. in Echoes of Iraq War”. Besides the aircraft…
Walter Benjamin’s Idea of Revolution and World’s favourite Theorist | Pravat Ranjan Sethi
Introduction The German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) is at the present commonly regarded as one of the most important witnesses to European modernity. Walter Benjamin was known as…
Why Calling U.S. a ‘Democracy’ Is Both False & Dangerous to Do
It’s false because it is definitely untrue, and that’s not merely because America has a higher percentage of its residents in prison than does any other nation on…
Neglect of Education, Death-Squads, and the Deep State Syndrome in Bangladesh
Education has almost everything to do with changing, modifying, and improving the levels of people's culture (although "improving the cultural level" is a loaded and controversial expression). To remain politically…
Pulwama Attack and the Disclosure of a Mindset
The deadliest suicide attack at Pulwama has yet again exposed the perennial fault lines in South Asia with epicenter being Kashmir. It has disclosed many old scars which get buried…
World Bank warns of “storm clouds” over global economy
The World Bank has added its voice to those warning of a worsening outlook for the global economy this year, amid signs that some major economies could experience a recession.…
Our Man in Riyadh: Abizaid of Arabia
What does President Trump’s recent nomination of retired Army General John Abizaid to become the next U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia signify? Next to nothing -- and arguably quite a lot. Abizaid’s…
Latest US-Led Air Strikes Kill At Least 80 Syrian Civilians
The US-led coalition against Islamic State has carried out more than 100 new air strikes targeting the militant group’s remaining strongholds in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province, killing at least 80…
What We Can Expect After The U.S Midterm Elections
The midterm elections are over, the result ... a split-decision. The Democrats will control the House, raising the possibility of an impeachment attempt. The Senate remains under Republican control with…
People Worldwide Will Soon Demand Americans Stop Planing Nuclear War Endangering Us All!
“We are moving in the direction of a multipolar world,” UN Secretary-General. China is again the world’s greatest economic power as it was through most of human history. As…
The Dangers of One Nation One Election Narrative
The debate of simultaneous Lok Sabha and state assemblies’ elections is gaining momentum in India. After continuous pitch by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ruling BJP, the Law Commission recently…
“A Watershed Moment in Palestinian History”: Interview with Jamal Juma’
For weeks now, Palestinians everywhere have been galvanized by events taking place in the Gaza Strip, the site of weekly (since March 30) mass protests demanding the end of the…
An American Babushka in Moscow: Singularity and Social Space
Like Oedipus I was never able to escape my fate. In principle, if not in actuality, I was orphaned before I was born: a father dead from the war, a…
Venezuela 1998-2018: 20 years, 7 elections, 2 charts and Some Hypotheses
Elections seldom act as a true mirror – a century ago we heard about soldiers ‘voting with their feet’ in favour of demobilisation and Bolsheviks getting only about a quarter of popular…
School Shootings in America: Just the Tip of the Iceberg!
Another school shooting by a 17-year-old White student at Santa Fe yesterday (18th May 2018), and another round of “prayer” by Republican Senator Ted Cruz, Republican Governor of Texas, and…
Gina Haspel and Pinocchio from Rome
Being in Rome, Italy and thinking of Gina Haspel, the CIA nominee and admitted torturer who says her “moral conscience” has changed after the fact, seems most fitting. Wherever you…
The Information Explosion
I would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “The Information Explosion”. This book discusses the role of information in evolution, and especially in the evolution of…
Teesta Setalvad Honoured With Medal Of Courage
Visiting social justice activist from India Teesta Setalvad was honoured with a medal of courage by Radical Desi publications and Indians Abroad For Pluralist India, at an event organized in…
Disembodiment As Alienation
Alienation as Disembodiment: considerations on Edward Curtin’s Disembodied Americans and the Crucifixion of the World. I am not writing to criticize Curtin’s piece because to my mind there is nothing…
Punishing Russia
The 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union gave the American administration the opportunity to become the only political and military global power. The world, then, became unipolar. The American…
Economic System Reform: Saving The Planet; Salvaging The Human Prospect
Economic systems include elements of design. Economic systems are not the progeny of happenstance, nor are they beyond our powers, like the sun and moon and stars above. And based…
Perspectives On Activism: Waiting And Being Present
"The more people I meet, the happier I become." -Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot In the interregnum, we find ourselves as citizens waiting...for something. We bide our time with…
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