Paraguayan Youth Fight to Defend Affordable Education
Education subsidy funding changes has sparked mass protests in Paraguay. A weeks-long occupation of Paraguay’s largest university forced the right-wing government to the table.
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A Mad World: Capitalism and the Rise of Mental Illness
Mental illness is now recognised as one of the biggest causes of individual distress and misery in our societies and cities, comparable to poverty and unemployment. One in four adults in the UK today has been diagnosed with a mental illness, and four million people take anti-depressants.
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On Fascism and Other Maladies: A Conversation with Luis Britto García
Experimental writer and columnist Luis Britto Garcia is one of Venezuela’s best-known and most respected intellectuals. In this interview, he talks about fascism and corruption, as well as his hopes for a Chavista victory in the upcoming July 28 presidential elections.
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Will We Ever Wake Up to the Realities of World War II and See Where They Have Long Been Leading?
“My military experiences turned me eternally against the monstrosity of war and militarism and propelled me on a quest to understand the wars of America. This article is a basic summary of the U.S-Japanese War after a lifelong inquiry into the realities of American entry into World War II.”
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Permafrost Showdown
Scientists estimate that permafrost holds up to 950 billion tons of carbon. As it thaws because of global warming, 50 billion tons of methane could enter the atmosphere from Siberian lakes alone. That’s ten times more methane than the atmosphere holds right now.
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India to South Africa: How Two Activists Defied Their Family Legacies to Challenge Injustice
Beyers Naudé was an outspoken Christian minister in South Africa, Shridharpant Tilak was an anti-caste activist in Maharashtra. In this current moment, when hate and bigotry of all forms seem to be on the rise across the world, their examples are worth revisiting today.
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Culture | India | Online Blog
Swami Vivekananda and Western Women – The Living Vedanta
Pravrajika Atmaprana edited in 1995 a book called ‘Western Women in the Footsteps of Swami Vivekananda’. The truth is that those footsteps were made possible in the first place by Western women. It is to them that this essay is dedicated.
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BJP Is Undermining India’s Democratic Credentials – We Must Fight Back Using the Vote, Our Most Important Weapon
BJP’s subversion of the electoral process and Modi’s communal rhetoric undermine credentials of democracy in India. It is time to use the only democratic weapon people have, the vote, responsibly.
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Students Rise Up in the US Against Israel’s Genocide of Gazans – 3 Articles
Opposing the War Machine Is Cool Again, and the Empire’s Getting Nervous; War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young; The Nation’s Conscience.
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Ghosts of ’68
Militarized police raids cannot vanquish the ghosts of ’68. Thanks to student organizers, along with a critical minority of professors, intellectuals and human rights activists, people across the US are mobilizing in defence of first-amendment rights and against Israel’s genocide of Gazans. They are making history, and they know it.
