Sikh Nation calls for a moment of silence for Palestinians killed in Gaza
Every November 1, Sikhs remember those killed during state sponsored pogroms in 1984 at 6 pm. This Wednesday, the Sikh Nation that started an annual blood drive in 1999 to…
World
The Animism of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
To suggest that the current conflict in Gaza and Israel between Palestinians and Israelis is related in any way to animism would seem not only highly unlikely but even preposterous.…
Why We’re Seeing Shifting Patterns in Global Manufacturing
Amid other crises, China’s economy has reeled from Western decoupling efforts. While several countries stand to gain from this process, it has only partially reduced China’s extensive global influence. The…
Why the World Needs a Big Course Correction at this Stage of the 21st Century
Two of the most important facts about the 21st century must be emphasized. Firstly, no other century in human history started with such serious, known, avoidable, man-made threats relating to…
Need of World Peace and Disarmament #DisarmamentWeek (24-30 Oct)
At a time when the world is witnessing two major conflicts (Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine) and numerous vulnerable points where conflicts can arise anytime; probably world peace seems a dire need of…
Almost 4 Million UK People Experienced Most Extreme Form Of Poverty Last Year, Finds Study
Almost four million people, including more than a million children, in Britain experienced the most extreme form of poverty last year, according to a recent study published by the Joseph…
Does the Genocide in Gaza Strengthen the Islamic Government in Iran?
On September 22, 2023, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in his speech at the UN General Assembly, showed a map of "the New Middle East" and implied that the entire…
Please Don’t Kill the Children
When humans embrace the dehumanization of others, we release our ugliest, most destructive selves. Dehumanization is a perverse force that propagates violence and justifies the lust for war and its…
The Roots of Radicalism and the Structure of Evil
My title is redundant for a reason, since the root of the word radical is the Latin word, radix, meaning root. For I mean to show how the use and misuse…
Muddled Interventions: Haiti, the UN and Resolution 2699
A country broken by constant foreign interventions, its tyrannical regimes propped up by the back brace of the United States (when it wasn’t intervening to adjust it), marred by appalling…
Peace Movement May be Weak Today but Feelings of People for Peace are Strong
Every voice for peace is relevant, every voice for peace is needed. Even if it is only a child carrying a placard in a gathering for peace, even if it…
Biden’s Bungles over Gaza
The main press stable was keen to see the scrappy benefits of the 31-hour visit to Israel by US President Joe Biden. On National Public Radio (NPR), Scott Neuman expressed…
Is the Left Dead in Kenya?
Kenya faces critical times today as the government of President Ruto moves full speed towards the agenda set by USA via IMF directives. The push on Kenya to turn ‘West”…
The Day Guterres Became Relevant
The relevance given to a UN Secretary-General is often judged by the degree of controversy caused. In history, the most relevant are usually targeted. Dag Hammarskjöld, refusing to remain a…
Elections in Argentina: A Working Class Perspective
A few days before the October 22 elections in Argentina, almost 90 percent of the polls indicated that the winner would be Javier Milei, the “insane” candidate of the right—as…
What A Second Trumpocracy Would Mean
If he becomes the official nominee of the Republican Party in next year’s presidential race, Donald Trump will receive tens of millions of votes in the general election. He may…
Womb less Babies Don’t Count!
So, they put the oxymoron of a ' Constitutional Lawyer' into the US House of Representatives Speaker's Chair. Mike Johnson, looking so nerdy with his too neat attire , is…
Trump’s Schedule F (for “Failed State”)
Sometimes the right wing in this country seems like a riddle wrapped in an enigma encased in a conundrum. Do they want to strengthen the government in line with the…
Looking at the Evolution of Terrorism- As the shared heritage of “stakeholders”
As a great scourge of humanity that it surely is, it’s worth pondering how terrorism being used as a tool to settle scores has been the flavour of all seasons…
The Middle East as a “Powder Keg”
The focal feature of both the history and the politics of the region of the Middle East in the Modern and Contemporary Age (during the last 250 years) is the…
Cultural Cover-Up: The Sydney Opera House Turns 50
Commemorative occasions are often draped in fatty platitudes. Within such platitudes lie excuses and apologies. People are celebrated after the fact, not for their faults but for their virtues. It’s…
Confidence In U.S. Media Hits Record Low, Finds Poll
Only 32% of U.S. citizens trust the media to report the news fairly and accurately, while a record 39% do not trust the media at all, finds a Gallup poll…
Rambo’s Pacific Peace Zone
There has always been something impressive, if slightly idiosyncratic, about political ideas emanating from Pacific states. In recent years, on the world’s largest body of water, the various island states…
We Need to Disarm the Discourse on China
by Cale Holmes and Lawson Adams From racist tweets to rising hate crimes, the media’s anti-China propaganda has created a climate of aggression. Two weeks ago, a man drove a…
Fruitless Gestures: Victoria Bans the Nazi Salute
It took place with hardly any debate, though it interested some parliamentary members at the committee stage. The Australian state of Victoria now faces laws that will lock a person…
Short Introduction to the Middle Eastern Studies: What is the Middle East as the Region?
Middle Eastern Studies are a multicomplex research discipline devoted to as better as knowledge and understanding of different cultures, nationalities, and complexities of the world’s region conventionally known as the…
Saudi Crown Prince Keeps Blinken Waiting
Two recent incidents in the area of geopolitics have attracted notice. One is related to the U.S Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the other is related to Russian President…
G7 Versus BRICS: Power Struggles Are Not Class Struggles
Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while within each, slaves and enslavers engaged in class…
Why China’s New Map of Its Borders Has Stirred Regional Tensions
China’s release of its standard map has produced outrage and alarm in several countries, yet Beijing remains steadfast in continuing its historical approach toward its borders. In the waning days…
Geopolitical Shocks And Risk For India And Indonesia
A triumvirate of high oil prices, a surging dollar and geopolitical instability are set to weigh on India and Indonesia among Asia’s emerging markets, while energy exporter Malaysia may prove…
The Failed ‘Voice’ Referendum in Australia
On 14th of October 2023, Australia held a referendum on the introduction of a Voice for Indigenous people into its federal parliament. Voters were asked if they approve an alteration…
USA Should Return 7 Billion Dollars to Afghanistan Now as Earthquakes Aggravate Humanitarian Crisis
A series of earthquakes in Afghanistan have recently killed thousands of people and caused other massive damage, particularly in Herat. In the last quake loss of human lives could be…
Drone Warfare in the Nuclear Age
A war with China may not be inevitable, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks observed recently, but it’s a genuine possibility and so this country must be prepared to fight and…
Hate Speech in Australia – What is to be done?
by Thomas Klikauerand Thu Nguyen Beneath the carefully crafted media image of sun-drenched beaches and the pushing of a culturally diverse nation, Australian society lies a concealed threat by hate…
World Food Day as Seen in Gaza, Ukraine and Afghanistan
Within three days of the violence that has erupted recently in Gaza, reports from there were speaking about the big rush for staple food like bread and yet people having…
A Losing Voice: The Fall of an Indigenous Referendum Measure
Even before October 14, The Voice, or, to describe in full, the Referendum on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament, was in dire straits. Referenda proposals are…
A Letter to Joe Biden
Subject: October 10 speech - Hamas attack on Israel I watched your speech outline a position on Hamas’ horrific attack on Israel…wait, wait, excuse me, a correction. I did not…
Fukushima Up Close, 13 Years Later
The world is turning to nuclear power as a solution to global warming, but it is postulated herein that it is a huge mistake that endangers society. One nuclear meltdown…
Humanitarian Calamities That Aren’t on the World’s Agenda
by Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox Various versions of the aphorism “War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography” have been making the rounds ever since the rise of…
History of Russia in International Relations in the 1990s: Between the Western Colonization and Self-Interest
History and geopolitics The extreme geopolitical importance of Russia in global politics and international relations is seen as the best from the very basic facts about Russian geography. Russian Federation…
Red-baiting in the USA
by Margaret Viggiani and Luma Nichol This summer Trump made a campaign promise to bar all leftists from immigrating to the United States. He declared, “We’re going to keep foreign,…
Alabama’s governor and the pro-life cult of death
In July, Governor Kay Ivey resumed executions in her state of Alabama. They had been on hold since 2022 when several botched procedures prompted a review. The state concluded that…
Four Components of German Right-Wing Populism
by Thomas Klikauer and Danny Antonelli In too many European countries, the extreme right, outright Neo-Nazis, and Neo-Nazis posing as right-wing populists have been mobilizing in recent months. From Sweden,…
The Gaza War is Lost: But Will Netanyahu Concede?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had often boasted about the readiness of his army to deal with, and to eliminate all threats to Israel's ‘security’. The Israeli military, too, has…
Thanksgiving was about Taking
No one will dispute that the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island from Umingmak Nuna (Ellesmere Island) to Tierra del Fuego were here long, long before the White Man arrived. So,…
Abandoning the Poor
On the island of Manhattan, where I live, skyscrapers multiply like metal weeds, a vertical invasion of seemingly unstoppable force. For more than a century, they have risen as symbols…
AI, the future of work, and beyond
by Omar Raad Chowdhury and Md. Abdul Aahad Throughout the history of human civilization, there have been three industrial revolutions: the first industrial revolution in the late 18th century, characterised…
Why Do Washington and London Want to Preserve Theocracy in Iran?
Theocracy in Iran is based on a legend that a hidden Imam will resurface on the earth and bring justice to the world. According to Article 5 of the Islamic…
Balkan Geopolitics: Between a Bridge and the Battlefield
The Balkans and Geopolitics The peculiar geostrategic position of the Balkan Peninsula gives us an answer to the question of why it has been throughout history both a bridge and…
Post-G20 Summit Euphoria: Will India Emerge an Axis for Afro-Asian Nations?
There was undoubtedly a display of a friendly lexicon at the 18th G20 summit in New Delhi-India on September 9–10, 2023, including phrases like, We are One Earth, One Family,…
Nuclear-Powered Fixations: The Trump-Pratt Disclosures
In April 2021, the Australian billionaire Anthony Pratt had a meeting with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago club. According to an ABC News report, “Pratt told Trump he believed Australia…
Closing Guantánamo?
For 18 years, I’ve been writing articles for TomDispatch on the never-ending story of the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility. And here’s my ultimate takeaway (for the moment): 21 years after that grim offshore prison…
A Yes Vote For Aboriginal Recognition In Parliament Is A Form Of Thanksgiving
At this time of year in many countries of the New World, especially in Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, people come together in thanksgiving for all the…
Palm Oil: The Ingredient Behind Human Rights Abuses and Eco-Destruction That’s Probably in Your Home Right Now
Palm oil is found in 50 percent of all consumer goods. And it’s killing the environment. “Oil palm is one of the world’s most prominent and effective vegetable oils globally,…
Sri Lanka debt justice collective writes open letter to IMF on DDO
An International Monetary Fund (IMF), team was in Sri Lanka from September 14-to 27 to discuss economic and financial policies and conduct the First Review of the Extended Fund Facility…
Indian Ambitions and Sri Lankan Reality: Balancing Great Powers Before the Geopolitical Entanglement of the Indian Ocean
The significance of the Indian Ocean is undoubtedly the most indispensable factor in deciding the 21st century. Throughout history, the perennial value of the Indian Ocean continued in making empires…
Ambassador of Israeli Crimes: This is How Gilad Erdan Become a Defender of Women’s Rights in Iran
A new trend is emerging in the Israeli hasbara discourse targeting Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims: women’s rights. The word ‘new’ is not exactly accurate. The misuse of the genuine struggle…
What if UFOs Have Been a Cover for High-Tech—and Human—Defense Research Programs?
A mix of government, private, adversarial, and unexplained objects are filling up an increasingly congested U.S. airspace. Uncovering what fills it should be of greater public interest. Could the decades-long…
Pronatalism on the Rise to Counter Growing Push for Gender Equality
There’s an insidious new tactic emerging for selling Right-wing ideology to wider audiences, evident in last month’s Budapest Demographic Summit for “family-friendly thinkers and decision-makers,” the upcoming pro-birth Natal conference…
Leaderless!
Can you imagine that after my generation either was pushed into the Vietnam phony war or pushed into the streets to get us out, we have arrived at this,…
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