Books About Wars in Your Country
A brief history of books, resistance, the police and politicians. It is humanly impossible for even the most learned judge to have read every book referred to in their court.…
August 2019
Kashmir – The Invisible and the Damned
You can look away now The Vale of tears has dried up And a deathly silence stalks the Dal Deserted towns, burnt orchards and shadows everywhere. Paradise will ne’er be…
Hindu Villagers Protects Mosque in Bihar
In a heartwarming instance of communal harmony, the Hindu residents of Mari village, in Nalanda district of Bihar have given their heart and soul to take care of an old…
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…
Egypt’s security forces execute 17 persons in extrajudicial killing
Egyptian President Field Marshall Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s security forces have killed 17 pro Muslim Brotherhood persons in the latest incident of extra judicial killing. The security forces claimed that the…
On the Day of my Birth: Witnessing Desperation, Celebrating Triumph
It was my birthday and I was both sad and glad for myself. I had lived a long life, filled with difficulties of every kind one can imagine. I had…
First ‘green village’ and its struggles
'The soul of India lives in its villages' Mahatma Gandhi While cosmopolitan cities and even many villages are being polluted increasingly, there are some villages which are resisting environmental pollution…
Abrogation of Article 370 An Act of Terror: Prelude to Dispossession, Displacement and Accumulation
“…always was, always will be, the land of Kashmiris” Conquest by Abrogation: The acts of the Indian government in flooding Kashmir with its troops is a coercive measure meant to…
Some Thoughts on Extinction Rebellion – and the Future of the Climate Movement
The rise of ‘Extinction Rebellion’ signals that climate activism is moving up a gear. Further radicalisation is probably inevitable. Extinction Rebellion (or XR) is climate activism’s new face. One of its…
Search for Answers
With those thousands and millions of pieces you have been broken into How long can you keep on fixing them to get through one more day? And with a cracked…
Leaked UN Draft Report Warns Rising, Warming Oceans ‘Poised to Unleash Misery’ Worldwide
A draft United Nations report warns "the same oceans that nourished human evolution are poised to unleash misery on a global scale unless the carbon pollution destabilizing Earth's marine environment is brought…
Indian media’s sellout on Kashmir
Recalling the stellar role of the Indian media during the infamous internal Emergency imposed by the late Indira Gandhi, Lal Krishna Advani, the BJP patriarch now forcibly retired, famously noted:…
G7 – The Cost of Uselessness
The G7 Summit is an obsolete, useless talking shop, as Finnian Cunningham so adroitly says. RT calls it The Unbearable Pointlessness of G7. Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK, and…
What lies behind Mohan Bhagwat’s call for debate around reservation
What is the similarity between reservation and the special status granted to Kashmir ? The issue is of relevance since Mohan Bhagwat raked up the issue of reservation within a…
Nature And Human Beings
“Capitalism tends to destroy its two sources of wealth: nature and human beings” – Karl Marx “Man lives on nature — means that nature is his body, with which he…
Unhinged before the Fall: Boris Johnson, Parliament and Brexit
The Brexit no deal prospect is engendering an element of lunacy fast seeping into every pore of the British political establishment. As with all steeped in such thinking, some of…
Iran – Is a Rouhani – Trump Meeting Imminent?
PressTV Interview Transcript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qsp1UcXqEo Background Tehran and Washington have been locked in a dispute since last year when the US unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear agreement and re-imposed crippling…
Protest: The King is dead, long live the king
Protest is back on the front burner. Protesters occupy streets in cities ranging from Hong Kong and Moscow to Khartoum and Algiers. They would likely do so in Srinagar,…
Pakistan successfully tests night launch of surface to surface ballistic missile
Amid mounting tension over India’s annexation of Kashmir, Pakistan has successfully carried out the night training launch of a surface to surface ballistic missile. The missile "is capable of delivering…
Jharkhand Government responds to Pathalgadi with violence instead of honouring Constitutional rights of Adivasis
On 6-7 August 2019, a fact-finding team comprising activists, academics, researchers and lawyers visited a few Pathalgadi villages in Khunti district (Ghaghara, Bhandra and Habuidih in Khunti block and Kochang…
Medha Patkar On Indefinite Hunger Strike
Chhota Badda (Barwani) | The fast of Ms. Medha Patkar under the "Narmada Challan Satyagraha" continued for the sixth day today. The Chief Minister of the State urged Ms. Patkar…
Johnson to suspend UK parliament to push through Brexit in a major assault on democratic rule
Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom, yesterday signed off on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s request to suspend parliament. Known as proroguing, the move followed a visit by three Privy…
The Saudi Axis and Israel’s Drone War on the Shiite Crescent
In the past week, Linah al-Saafin at Al Jazeera English points out, an Israeli drone hit a Hizbullah target in Lebanon, Israeli fighter jets bombed a base in Syria with…
Surge in Misogyny and Objectification of Kashmiri Women
Kashmiri women community have been a victim of the reinforced rape culture since 1947. With the recent abrogation of Article 370 by the Modi government, the fear of violence among…
Babri Masjid – Ram Janmabhoomi: Contextualising The Historical Content
History is to be interrogated. Subjected to scanners, sieved and then made to make a standpoint. Eye witnesses accounts or contemporary or near contemporary sources are to be thoroughly probed,…
The politics of revivalism: Intersection of caste and Hindutva
The nation does not mean number all the time. However, the assimilation of number with the Hindutva self has created a situation of the legitimacy of the Hindu nation. The…
India And ‘Crony Capitalism’
In 2012, Daren Acemoglu & James A. Robinson wrote a book, Why Nations Fail, in which they point out that when political power is captured by elites, all the wealth…
Gandhian Model of Economy And Industry And The Post Globalisation Scenario
On 20th August, 2019 Indian Express e-paper carried an unusual advertisement by the Northern India Textiles Mills Association about Indian Spinning Industry facing a huge crisis. The spinning mills are…
Climate Change Facts – from Climate Change to Runaway Global Heating
In the light of the recent IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, (Ref 1), it…
‘We are waiting for war’: Lebanese say Israel has gone too far
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek After the recent Israeli attacks against Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq, the Middle East has found itself in the midst of undeclared war. Almost everyone in…
Labor Day 2019
We celebrate Labor Day by honoring workers — especially the forgotten workers. Stay-at-home mothers who home school their children are often forgotten. Others who are forgotten are those who…
Humanity Denied: What Is Missing from the Omar, Tlaib Story
Israel's decision to bar two United States Democratic Representatives, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, from entering Israel and visiting Palestine has further exposed the belligerent, racist nature of the Israeli…
Changing politics over Indian Muslim Women
Recently enacted Triple Talaq Bill is a piecemeal legislation to safeguard Muslim women’s rights regarding un-Islamic practice of marriage dissolution. While discussions are still raging over the legal propriety of…
Can Press Council defend media blackout?
If there is any weapon that protects democracy, it is freedom to express a critical opinion. Every democratic Constitution must facilitate, declare and protect the people's right to tell, write,…
Dear Kannan Gopinathan, I quit Zoho for the same reason. Where do we go from here?
Put me back in the middle of the sea, Let me struggle, learn & find a new shore. Dear Kannan Gopinathan Couple of days ago, I stumbled upon a news article that spoke…
Iran Nuclear Accord: The Third Act is Now Starting
The first act of the Iran Nuclear Accord took eight years. The backdrop kept changing from Geneva to Vienna but the actors were nearly all the same. Except for…
The Faces of Communism in Russia Today
I am taking a long Sunday walk when I come upon them handing out leaflets in front of Kentucky Fried Chicken, in Perovo, the region of Moscow in which I…
Kashmir – and the strange paralysis of the Indian civil society
There were no black-bordered newspaper announcements of either the abrogation of the Articles 370 and 35A or the immediate clampdown imposed on Kashmir, effected as they were by devious and…
Indo-Pak People-to-People Peace Efforts need a Close Look
Indo-Pakistan relations have almost never been all-smooth, least of all since the 1990s if not earlier, post the worsening of the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. This was also the…
A Requiem for Amazonia
Amazon burns Each flame licks a life Each ember leads to strife How will man survive? From the meat roasted by the flames That rise as if from Earth’s insides?…
Polishing Turds: Lord Bell’s Public Relations Revolution
“Morality is a job for priests. Not P.R. men.” Tim Bell, New York Times, Feb 4, 2018 Lord Bell is dead, but his public relations tinkering, with all its gloss…
Hollywood reboots Russophobia for the New Cold War
It is an age-old question as to the extent art reflects the world we live in. Bertolt Brecht allegedly said to the contrary that art was “not a mirror held…
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…
The Amazon Is on Fire—Indigenous Rights Can Help Put It Out
Colonialism is setting the world on fire. Taking leadership from the people who have been resisting its violence for centuries, while protecting non-extractive ways of life, is our best hope…
The New Trail of Tears
How climate change is forcing the relocation of species, including our own In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, designed to appropriate to the United States lands occupied by…
Tinderbox Earth: The significance of the Amazon and Siberian fires
As fires rage across tens of thousands square km the Amazon forest, dubbed the Planet’s lungs, producing some 20 percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere, with some 72,843 fires…
Amazonia in Flames – Brazil’s Bolsonaro is a World Criminal – Encouraging Jungle Burning for Private Exploitation of Freed Land
On 28 October 2018, Jair Bolsonaro was elected President of Brazil with 55.1% of the vote – and with a gigantic help from Cambridge Analytica. At the World Economic Forum (WEF)…
Israel Has Attacked Lebanon And Syria – So What?
On August 25th, 2019, Israel attacked Lebanon. It has done it again. Just as it attacked Syria, the same night. RT reported the same day: “Israeli drone flights were “an…
Changing Israel
Part1-BDS Defeating Israel does not sit well with the American public. Although defeat does not seem possible, the word intimates the destruction of all Israelis. Changing Israel into a nation…
Justifications for Inequality: The Neuroses of Kochland
One of the brothers Koch, David, has shuffled off this mortal coil, and the pious few looking at his passing may well think he is making it tough for camels…
Hong Kong and the Audacity of the United States
People often ask and hint at the similarities between the Hong Kong protests and the French Yellow Vests. The former started on 31 March and are approaching their 19th week…
Are Sanders and Warren Throwing a Lifeline to the Military-Industrial Complex?
Co-Written by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas J S Davies Among the frontrunners in the Democratic Party presidential primary, Senators Warren and Sanders not only have the most progressive domestic agenda,…
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…
Stratfor: Kashmir may provide spark for Pakistan-India nuclear war
The specter of nuclear war haunts tensions between India and Pakistan, and the disputed territory of Kashmir could provide the spark that lights South Asia’s nuclear fuse, warns Strafor, a…
Love For My Country Transcends Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nay The Whole world!
Tsunami of aggressive nationalism Across USA, Europe and beyond Internationalism is my creed; patriotism acceptable But not the sedition law My ancestors born in Pakistan Part of undivided India…
Questioning Democracy
Equality. Freedom. Justice. Secularity. Rights. Federalism. People’s government. That’s the general view of democracy we have in our minds. Democracy promises to incorporate all these values while administrating the institutions…
As New Fires Rage in Amazon, Global Calls for Urgent Action to Avert ‘Astronomical’ Impacts to ‘Life on Earth’
Pope Francis urges protection of "that lung of forests" and French President Macron says G7 nations pledged help at summit Brazil's army on Sunday deployed aircraft to battle the raging fires in…
Global Climate Movement: Darkest Before the Dawn
"Locally, city-wide, state-wide, nationally, internationally we must join the fight as if our lives depends upon it, because they do. Now's the time to join the movement for stopping global…
Two Arguments for Localism
Argument 1: Localism is inevitable. Globalization was made possible by long-distance transport, communications, and capital flows. It fits with widespread assumptions about progress and economic growth leading to a better…
The Naming Industrial Complex: The Stupidity of Smart Devices and Smart Cities
Insentience cannot have intelligence, but the modern public relations revolution would have you think otherwise. Smart phones, smart bombs, and, it follows, Smart Cities (capitalising such terms implies false authority),…
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