The Zionist Exception
Today, we hear a lot about White supremacy but very little about Jewish supremacy, as if the former stands for the latter. It is true there are more similarities than…
August 2017
Jimmy Carter and the US-North Korean Treaty Halting North Korea’s Development of Nuclear Weapons
Very little, almost nothing has been mentioned in the press or on TV about Jimmy Carter and his negotiation resulting in an agreement by the North Koreans, in 1994, to…
Is Climate Science Denial Going Through A Seneca Cliff?
Sometimes I think about how difficult it must be to be a climate science denier. I have been studying climate science for years and I can tell you that it…
Climate Finance Is Imperative To Combat Climate Change In India
Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), first world countries based on their historic responsibility of maximum contribution to global warming, have agreed to contribute financially in…
Rohyinga Villages Burning Again
Authorities in Myanmar say close to 100 people have been killed since Friday when armed men, reportedly from the ArakanRohynga Salvation Army (ARSA), launched a pre-dawn raid on police outposts…
The Façade
On a summer noon A crow perches (not in want of water) Gripping the bamboo bars of your fence And you yell at it until it flies away from your…
Kashmir: Who Is A Terrorist?
Kashmir continues to withstand turmoil & turbulence and rein of terror from it’s counter establishment. Enough blood had been spilled in the name of freeing Kashmir from contractors of bloodshed…
How Nothing Really Maters
After Tuesday’s deluge and many people staying indoors on Wednesday, due to state government advisories advising to do so, most of the people in Mumbai were back to work today.…
Punjab Needs To Address Education Sector
Education plays a catalytic role in the socio economic development. The relationship between education and development is well documented and fairly well understood. Education is an important indicator of…
The (un-) Holy Men!
(The controversy surrounding Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and the mayhem caused by his conviction for rape seems only the proverbial tip of the ice-berg!) For quite some time India was…
The Terror Next Time: The Daesh Story Is Not Ending
Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, has been reduced to rubble. It has been finally conquered, snatched back from the notorious group, Daesh, after months of merciless bombardment by the US-led…
Trump Continues Invasions That Can’t Succeed
Do you remember the Vietnam War, which produced somewhere between 1,450,000 and 3,595,000 deaths? What good did America’s invasion do? If America had won instead of lost, would the…
Fighting For Justice In the Patriarchal Courts
Advocate Dr Shalu Nigam Last few days witnessed the pronouncement of several significant celebrated judgements by the courts in the cases relating to right to privacy[1], triple talaq[2], and sentencing…
I Want A Lawyer!
Review of You Have the Right to Remain Innocent- James Duane, Little A, New York, 2016 Much has been written about US rates of incarceration and of the Police’s and…
Enforced Disappearances
The international community commemorates 30th day of August as the International day of the Disappeared. Kashmir, which has witnessed thousands of enforced disappearances is commemorating this day with a…
Religious Cults, Godmen And Blind Faith
The conviction of Ram Rahim and the judgement to put him behind bars should ideally be welcomed by all sections of Society. But what cause worry are the incidents of…
Aggression “Isn’t” A Crime
Only about 11 years ago, Saddam Hussein was sitting in a Baghdad court and facing trial. His crimes were defined and dissected by the world-masters. And, Saddam, shackled and subdued,…
The Stomach-Churning Violence Of Monsanto, Bayer And The Agrochemical Oligopoly
As humans, we have evolved with the natural environment over millennia. We have learned what to eat and what not to eat, what to grow and how to grow it…
Tapping Into Private Sector For India’s Climate Finance
Since 2011, the coal cess has been at the heart of India’s climate finance mobilization strategy. The recent reports suggest that National Clean Energy fund(NCEF), formed through coal cess accrual,…
Syria And Lebanon Defeating The ISIS Terrorists
Whatever the West may think, and no matter what the Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri may say publicly, the Lebanese army, in clear coordination with Hezbollah (which is outlawed…
Banning “The Adivasi Will Not Dance”: Solidarity With Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
We are bewildered and dismayed to learn about the recent banning of Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar’s collection of short stories, The Adivasi Will Not Dance, by the Government of Jharkhand. This…
“We are Killing Terrorists” And “Attack We Will”- Trump’s Most Vicious Racist Rant
On Monday, August 21, President Donald Trump delivered a prime-time speech almost shocking in its ordinariness. It was such an address as either of his immediate predecessors, George W.…
Resting Sea Shepherd: A Pause In The Whale War Saga
What a colourful run this outfit has had. Branded in 2013 by Judge Alex Kozinski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit as pirates, the Sea Shepherd…
Labor Pains 2017
We celebrate Labor Day by honoring workers - especially the forgotten workers. Stay-at-home mothers who home school their children are often forgotten. Other forgotten members of the labor force are…
Why is There Such A Lack Of Wisdom Among World Leaders And Governments?
When looking at the world today, one gets the impression of living on a sick planet, with sick world leaders in an ailing democracy. It sometimes seems as if the…
Private Public Partnership And Sustainable Development: In Harmony or In Conflict With Each Other?
Are public private partnerships helpful or harmful to increase progress on sustainable development? CNS spoke with Gerifel Cerillo, the coordinator of 'Tanggol Bayi' - an association of women human rights…
Maharashtra Defaces Mughal Legacy From History Text Books
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” –George Orwell Too much of the thinking about Muslim rulers is now…
Disaster In The Sea Lanes: Bruising The US Navy
“That gives us great cause for concern that there’s something out there that we’re not getting at.” Admiral John Richardson, New York Times, Aug 21, 2017 The large question for…
As US Empire Fails, Trump Enters A Quagmire
A quagmire is defined as a complex or unpleasant position that is difficult to escape. President Trump’s recently announced war plans in Afghanistan maintain that quagmire. They come at a time when US Empire…
Disappearing Role Models, Crisis of Nations and the Urgency of ‘Socially ConsciousLeadership’
This would have been early eighties,then as a public servant in Bangladesh I visited a district called Kushtiato inspect progress of implementation of development projects. At that time I was…
Resisting Nazi Fascism And KKK Racism Responsibility Of All True Americans
The tragic events at Charlottesville and UnPresident Trump’s embrace of Nazis and KKK members provide for a teachable moment on fascism and race. The rise of the American fascist and…
Natural Rights In The Age Of Domination
The theory that individual rights were inherited and endowed by nature as an inalienable right is a big assumption. In this scheme, preferential divine rights were extracted from natural law.…
A Rejoinder To Ata Hasnain
Former GOC of India’s Srinagar based 15 Corps, Ata Hasnain has written an article in praise of Rashtriya Rifles (RR) which appeared first in South Asia Defence & Strategic…
Meat And Greet
Recently a well-known chain of supermarkets opened a fresh-only outlet inside a rich residential society in Mumbai to much gratitude and fanfare. The residents had a difficult time locating…
Walk For Pluralist India Held In Vancouver
A Walk for Pluralist India against growing attacks on religious minorities under Modi government was held here on Sunday evening. Organized by the Indians Abroad for Pluralist India (IAPI), the…
Dichotomy Between Legal And Social Juvenile Justice In India
Before any debate and discussion on the “implementation of Juvenile Justice” it is mandatory to understand who is Juvenile? What Juvenile Justice system is? Why we are discussing the…
Turkish Delight
There are four things that I have learnt in building a leadership consulting practice across the globe that are related to Customer Service. They are: The customer is not always…
Kashmir: Routine Existence Under Crackdowns
Co-Authored by:- Ayaz Nabi Malik/ Muhammad Asif Shah The normal life in Kashmir has always remained an unfulfilled desire as it continues to be threatened by the two Asian nuclear…
Of Rapists And Their ‘Righteous’ Supporters
The rapist is not the stranger in the night. Between pitaji ki maafi and pati ka haq most rapes in India are covered. A good portion of rapes in India…
Loving The Bollard: Turnbull’s Anti-Terror Tool Kit
It has been a week of bollards. And defence barriers. And hedges and vegetation. No, not the radio garden hour, or the herbaceous borders special featured on prime time television,…
The Great Face-saving U-Turn On Privacy
On 22 July 2015, the Attorney General (AG) Shri Mukul Rohatgi representing the Union of India (Centre, hereinafter) argued before a 3-Judge Bench (Justices J.Chelameshwar, S.A.Bobde & C.Nagappan) considering…
The Departure Of The Ideologues: Sebastian Gorka Leaves The White House
Troubling times, indeed, if we are noting the ecstasy of Wall Street traders at the departure of a White House official. What troubles the financiers and banksters would surely delight…
The Language Of Scientists, Poets And Activists
"A major challenge for activists is to acknowledge that they need to develop a sense of language, a feeling for words. One needs to become acquainted with their shape,…
BJP’s Hypocrisy Over Its Passion For Hinduism Exposed
Shortly after the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other leaders of his ruling Hindu nationalist Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) extended greetings to the nation on Ganesh Chaturthi, violence…
Civil Advocacy Groups Denounce Trump’s Pardon Of Shariff Arpaio
Civil rights groups and Democrats Friday condemned President Donald Trump's decision to pardon former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was convicted of disobeying a court verdict ordering his agency to…
Panchkula Riot: The Thoughts Of A Wandering Mind
I have stopped watching the 24-hour TV news drama channels long back. However, yesterday, I switched on the TV and put on the news channels in the morning itself. I…
Failure Of Governance In Haryana
Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, a self-styled spiritual guru and head of the Dera Sacha Sauda sect has been found guilty in rape case by court. In a country where politicians…
A Sinister War On Our Right To Hold Cash
An operation that began as a seemingly obscure academic discussion three years ago is now becoming a full-blown propaganda campaign by some of the most powerful institutions in the industrialized…
Statement And Counterstance: Racism In The USA
I’ve been upset to read that some blacks in the USA want to burn down white people’s properties and homes or take them over. It reminds of events currently happening…
American-killing Trump’s Afghanistan Speech Threatens Afghanistan, Pakistan, India And Humanity
A mendacious, bullying, serial war criminal, exceptionalist and American-killing Trump has delivered a bellicose Afghanistan Speech in which he promises endless war in war-devastated Afghanistan, threatens nuclear armed Pakistan,…
Lying About Citizenship: Australian Politicians Before The High Court
It was nothing short of fabulous. Before the public, the political lie is deemed an imperative, instinctively cultured to repel anything that might appear, let alone resemble, truth. Never, whatever…
Being Frank About Franklin And The Founding Fathers
"Eventually, religion and business merged as they did nowhere else." -- Barry Spector Benjamin Franklin wasn't so cool. He had upsides, but he had utterly unconscionable downsides. The former…
AHRC TV: Protests in Hong Kong Over Sentencing of Democracy Activists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJP8eWlbdsU&feature=youtu.be This week Just Asia begins with Hong Kong, where there is much protest and outrage against the jailing of three democracy activists for their role in the 2014 Umbrella…
2022: Acche Din Part II
With 2022 occurring regularly in the speeches of the Prime Minister, it is important to look into what it meant. The Prime Minister vowed that by 2022, the poor shall…
Conversation On Attacks On Religious Minorities In India Held On Kandhmal Day
While activists across India observed August 25 as Kandhmal Day in commemoration of the victims of anti Christian pogrom in 2008, a conversation was held at the University of British…
US Massacring Hundreds Of Syrian Civilians Every Week In Raqqa
The US-backed onslaught on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa is claiming hundreds of civilian lives every week, including dozens of women and children. US aircraft and troops on the ground…
Trump’s Strategy May Drive Pakistan Closer To Russia And China
Beijing and Moscow have come to Pakistan’s defense in light of President Donald Trump’s Afghan and Pakistan strategy unveiled on Monday. After China’s strong message defending Pakistan’s role in…
The Times Ahead: Catastrophes, Resource Conflicts And Cooperation
Until fairly recently, anthropologists and geologists were greatly puzzled by an unusual finding. Their perplexity concerned the almost total disappearance of humankind many years ago. Finally, they were able…
Obama’s Legacy Is An Excuse For Trump
Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn. is known for its regular polls. It asked voters what words came to mind when they thought of President Donald J. Trump. Different adjectives…
Right To Privacy Judgement: A Tight Slap To The Government
A full nine judge constitutional bench of the Supreme Court have a landmark judgement that makes Privacy a Fundamental Right in India. Honestly, I feel overwhelmed by this judgement.…
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