‘Unjustified’: Experts Write to PM Modi Against Hydro Projects in Ganga Himalaya
In 2014, the Union environment ministry agreed with an expert recommendation that HEPs shouldn’t be erected in paraglacial zones.
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For Nagas, the Idea of India Is Not Defined by the Brahmanical Notion of a Timeless Civilisation
The common ground with citizens from other parts of the country is the idea of a modern and secular India, as reflected by the Constitution.
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Being Hindu in a Hindu Rashtra
For Hindutva, which is not a spiritual or religious world view but a doctrinaire, authoritarian political programme, Hinduism is a mere prop.
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Lies That Led to the Afghan War
It is probably true that the public is fed with lies before, during and after every war. It is definitely true with the Afghan War. We must learn to be skeptical of both our political leaders and our mass media, when they give us reasons for going to war.
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Climate Crisis: A Prescription from 200 Medical Journals
A momentous statement has just been published in the British medical journal The Lancet and in 200 other health journals. It says, “We are united in recognizing that only fundamental and equitable changes to societies will reverse our current trajectory.”
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Capital, Profits and Wages in 2021
There are three elements that define the core of capitalism: capital, profits and wages. In recent decades, with the emergence of monopolies and growth of neoliberalism, the relationship between these three have changed.
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End Vaccine Apartheid; Also – Cuba Vaccinates Children
Vaccine costs have pushed many developing countries to the end of the Covid-19 vaccination queue. Worse, less vaccinated poor nations cannot afford fiscal efforts to provide relief or stimulate recovery. Plus: Cuba: The First Country in the World to Vaccinate Children Under 12.
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Elisa Loncon, President of the Constitutional Convention: “Chile Will Never Go Back to the Way it Was”
For the last two months, the Mapuche Elisa Loncon has presided over the constituent assembly in charge of writing the new Chilean constitution that will replace the Pinochet era constitution. In this interview, Loncon talks about the threats and challenges faced by the Constitutional Convention.
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Rights for Rivers: Fighting for the Legal Rights of Nature
Arguing for the legal standing of nature was greeted as ridiculous in the 1970s. But now the idea is catching on.
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Standing Rock Is Everywhere: The Indigenous Heart of the Climate Change Fight
This is a story of victory for the earth and of the end of the Keystone XL pipeline. It also involves the Dakota Access pipeline and the Standing Rock Lakota reservation, indeed the entire world, all of which is threatened by our desperate last burst of fossil fuel exploitation.
