Coverup: Industry Hid Dangers of ‘Forever Chemicals’ – 2 Articles
Secret documents show 3M and Dupont suppressed knowledge of PFAS toxicity. Also: What Industry Knew About the Perils of PFAS.
50 Years of Hip-Hop: How the Music Became a Global Cultural Movement
Aspiring hip-hop artists learn from each other and the ethos of ‘each one teach one’ – adapted from an African American proverb – applies across the culture.
Uprising in Palestine
Do the Palestinians have a right to resist the non-stop aggression to which they are subjected? Absolutely. There is no moral, political or military equivalence as far as the two sides are concerned.
Israel Is Mistaken. The Terror Israel Inflicts Is the Terror it will Get. – Three Articles
Israel is convinced greater levels of violence will finally crush Palestinian aspirations; it is mistaken. Also: “The Violence of the Oppressed” – No one should cheer the slaughter in Israel; but to forebear from cheering is not to condemn. Also: “Human Rights Watch Confirms White Phosphorus Used in Gaza”.
Weapons of Mass Lies
Until the community of onlookers imposes the same standards upon the colonizer as they do the colonized; upon Jews and Christians as they do Muslims; on skin tones of white as they do of color, the history of yesterday and that unfolding before us today remains locked in a dismissal falsified story-line.
Geopolitics of the War in Gaza – 3 Articles
“US Faces Defeat in Geopolitical War in Gaza”; “Iran Warns Israel Against its Apocalyptic War”; and “The Geopolitics of Al-Aqsa Flood”: Global focus just shifted from Ukraine to Palestine. This new arena of confrontation will ignite further competition between the Atlanticist and Eurasian blocs.
The Case for Caste Census in India; Liberal Intelligentsia’s Opposition Is Misplaced – 2 Articles
Is there a relation between caste, religion, poverty and discrimination? What do the social, economic indicators show? Also: “Caste Census: Why the Liberal Intelligentsia’s Opposition Is Misplaced”.
Caste Census: A Controversy Since 1910
Counting Dalits among Hindus in the census has been contentious in the past. While dominant caste Hindus did not want the caste column in the questionnaire, Muslims opposed counting Dalits as Hindus.
18 Years of RTI: Empowering Journey of the Act and its Eventual Decline
Many say the Modi government’s amendment to the RTI Act downgrades the role of information authorities, which could undermine the very essence of the law.
The Unfulfilled Promises of a Structurally Flawed GST: Assessing its Impact During Six Years of its Operation
GST has been in operation since July 1, 2017. It was billed as the second freedom since it was supposed to unify the `fragmented’ Indian market. In the six years that have elapsed, has it fulfilled the promises that its proponents had vociferously claimed for it.