The Mammoth ‘Do or Die’ Struggle
Of all the movements launched as part of our freedom struggle, the Quit India movement was easily the most complex, dramatic and multi-faceted.
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How India Allowed RP-Sanjiv Goenka Firms to Beat Coal Auctions
The Narendra Modi-led government enabled private firms to continue to bypass competitive processes to corner large coal reserves.
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Marginalized Indian Rural Economy: Its Challenges
This marginalization of the rural economy is a result of the policymakers’ focus being on the organized part. No wonder the agriculture sector which provides the most important item of consumption — food — has been marginalized.
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Omnipresent Caste
Sociologists have long believed that urbanisation could signal the end of the caste system. B.R. Ambedkar encouraged people from marginalised castes to migrate to urban areas. Unfortunately, however, cities have their own way of perpetuating these inequalities.
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What the Casual Hate in Our Classrooms Says About New India
If we are to regain a democratic future, we need to do everything in our power to stem that rot in the hearts of our children.
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Five Corporate Strategies to Manipulate Science
Ever since the rise of capitalism and corporations, the manipulation of science has been at the centre of the endeavours of big companies and corporations – like those related to tobacco, asbestos, chemicals, fast food, and oil and gas. This is a threat to human existence as well as planet earth.
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Invoking the Russell-Einstein Manifesto Against Nuclear War
The need for intellectuals to commit themselves body and soul to the common good, and the opposition to world war, and nuclear war, is only the greater at this horrible moment of taunting and daring launched by Presidents Biden and Putin today – says Pastreich.
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Imperialism | Online Blog | Terrorism | USA
The 20th Anniversary of the Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney
20 years ago, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, as war criminals, launched the sociocide of the people of Iraq. That illegal war of aggression was based on recognized lies, propaganda and cover-ups.
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The 1953 London Debt Agreement on Germany’s Debt
Germany benefited from the cancellation of most of its debt in 1953, which was instrumental in helping the country regain its position as a leading economic power. Since then, no other country has received such favourable treatment. A discussion on the why and how of this debt cancellation.
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West African People’s Movements Call for Greater Unity as France Announces Military ‘Reorganization’
The West Africa Peoples Organisation has welcomed the proposal for greater collaboration between Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea, and has called for coordinating and planning production, trade, infrastructure, economic development, and defence.
