WWII Could Not Have Happened Without US Help in Rearming Germany
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WWII Could Not Have Happened Without US Help in Rearming Germany

Recently, the 75th Anniversary of the invasion of Normandy was commemorated. But here are some little known facts about World War II. The sixty or seventy million men, women and children didn’t die because of Adolph Hitler, they perished because the wealthy in the US and Western Europe empowered Adolph Hitler to make war. The…

From Swaraj to Swastika

From Swaraj to Swastika

The victory of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a victory of the ideology that impedes the establishment of a true social democracy. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, the author of India’s constitution, wrote, “Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of…

Crimes Against Nature and Society Are Not “Satyagraha”

Crimes Against Nature and Society Are Not “Satyagraha”

After a series of 7 public hearings on Bt Brinjal, on February 9 2010, the then minister of state for Environment of the Govt of India announced an indefinite moratorium on introducing Bt brinjal—the first genetically modified food crop that would have been introduced for mass production in India. In June 2019, Monsanto lobbyists announced…

Microplastic Pollution ‘Absolutely Everywhere’

Microplastic Pollution ‘Absolutely Everywhere’

Bolstering global demands to #BreakFreeFromPlastic and end the world’s worsening pollution crisis, a new study from the United Kingdom found microplastic contamination in the UK’s lake and rivers, in groundwater in the US and along the Yangtze river in China and the coast of Spain. Humans are known to consume the tiny plastic particles via…

Farmers Protest in Mandsaur on Second Anniversary of Firing

Farmers Protest in Mandsaur on Second Anniversary of Firing

On June 6, 2019, the second anniversary of the Mandsaur firing, in which six farmers were reportedly killed after the police opened fire, thousands of farmers from across the nation, under the banner of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Samiti (AIKSS), a platform of 208 farmers’ organisations, gathered in Takrawad village, Mandsaur district, Madhya Pradesh…

Have You Heard of the CIA’s Iran Mission Center?

Have You Heard of the CIA’s Iran Mission Center?

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was adamant—just hours after it happened—that the explosions on two Norwegian and Japanese oil tankers were the responsibility of Iran. Iran did this, he said, and Iran would have to pay the price. The United States government offered no evidence for this claim, apart from a grainy video that…

Brain Fever Deaths In Bihar’s Muzaffarpur

Brain Fever Deaths In Bihar’s Muzaffarpur

Press Statement, June 19, 2019 [Institutions associated with prominent freedom fighters Abbas Tyabji and Mahavir Tyagi—the Abbas Tyabji Educational and Charitable Trust and The Mahavir Tyagi Foundation for Political and Economic Decency—have issued the following statement.] The encephalitis scourge has been affecting east Uttar Pradesh and Bihar (India) for decades. The death roll this year…

What’s the Score: 100 Children Dead and Counting, Sir

What’s the Score: 100 Children Dead and Counting, Sir

“How many wickets”, asked Mangal Pandey, Health Minister of Bihar during a press conference to know the current status of India–Pakistan clash in the ongoing Cricket World Cup. It is just that he asked the question in the middle of a meeting of health department to tackle the outbreak of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in…