The Human Rights Situation in the Indian Sub Continent
An unabridged version of the presentation made at the 36th session of UNHRC.
The Principles of Democracy Can’t be Scarified at Altar of Majoritarianism
Former Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court Justice Mathur’s keynote address at the 11th Rajasthan state convention of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties in Bhilwara on April 1 and 2.
Freedom of Expression: Driver for All Other Human Rights
The World Press Freedom Index 2022 had ranked India 150 out of 180 countries in the world. Given the state of Freedom of Speech and Expression in the country today, it is doubtful whether India has any chances of improving on its pathetic 150 ranking of the previous year.
Why Pune’s Citizens Are Up in Arms About a Riverfront Development Project
Along with eating into the riverine vegetation along the Mula-Mutha river, the riverfront development project that aims to address flooding and make the river more ‘accessible’ to people will not really do so, say activists.
Alluri Sitarama Raju, Unique Revolutionary, Remembered on His Death Anniversary
On 7 May 1924, Alluri Sitarama Raju (4 July 1897– 7 May 1924), a unique revolutionary involved in the Indian independence movement, was killed by the British armed forces. He was one of the few Indian revolutionaries who had developed a mass base and a mass movement.
India: Climate Change Causing Freak Weather and Heat Waves
The Indian Metrological Department (IMD) is predicting serious heat waves in the three-month period till end-May. They are expected to have wide-ranging impacts in India ranging from fatalities and hospitalisations to low productivity, loss of education and economic losses.
Capitalism | Economy | Online Blog | USA | World Economy
Four US Banks Crash in 2 months: Banking Crisis Explained by Economist Michael Hudson
Economist Michael Hudson discusses the collapse of four US banks in two months, giant JP Morgan Chase taking over First Republic Bank, and how government regulators are in bed with the bankers.
Open Letter to Australian MPs Re Horrendous US Alliance Lying, War Crimes and Regime Changing
Careful accounting reveals 85 instances of the US attempting to overthrow foreign governments since WW2 and that the US was successful in 50 instances, with craven US lackey Australia being involved in 8 of these regime changes.
Culture | Nuclear Threat | Online Blog | USA
From Yellow Journalism to China Bashing, the Media’s Enduring Role in Promoting War
John Pilger recalls the ‘electric’ opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
Grasping Dependency and Under-Development as Structural, Not Simply a Product of Force
Book Review. Brazilian Marxist Ruy Mauro Marini argues that the roles of local bourgeoisies, Northern imperialism, as well as unequal exchange resulting from a subordinate position within a global division of labor, are indispensable to understanding the fate of Global South workers and in particular Latin American underdevelopment.