Mutual Aid and Solidarity in Nigeria’s #EndSARS Protests
Nigerian #EndSARS protesters were successful in getting a notorious police unit disbanded. But their real legacy is the unity it inspired among the people.
Chile’s Feminists are the Memory of the Future
In 2019, Chile exploded in a mass uprising against authoritarian neoliberalism. What role did the Chilean feminist movement play in fomenting this revolt?
Capitalism | Economy | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy | World Politics
Nuclear Weapons and World Order: a Dialogue
The world is more dangerous than at any time since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the battlelines between the nuclear weapons states and governmental and civil society anti-nuclearism has never been more definitively drawn. A dialogue between two renowned anti-nuclear activists.
The Strange Irony of Roping in Mahatma Gandhi to Establish Savarkar’s Nationalist Credentials
Historical record not only debunks Union defence minister Rajnath Singh’s claim that Savarkar filed mercy petitions at the behest of Mahatma Gandhi, it establishes that the two men had nothing in common.
The True Toll of the Chernobyl Disaster
Covered up by a secretive Soviet Union at the time, the true number of deaths and illnesses caused by the nuclear accident are only now becoming clear.
Agriculture | COVID19 | Economy | Indian Politics | Online Blog | Socialism
Around the World, People are Getting Taller – So Why are Indian Heights on the Decline?
New data shows that Indian men are shorter now than they were a decade ago. So are large numbers of women. This is a worrying situation. Height is one of the most basic indicators of nutrition as well as public health and is directly linked to a country’s standard of living.
Afghanistan | Capitalism | Online Blog | USA | World Economy
Moral Injury and the Forever Wars: What Americans Don’t Want to Hear
The author, a professor of global religions at Moravian University, examines the concept of moral injury, why so many veterans of America’s twenty-first-century forever wars have suffered from it, and why, for some, suicide has been the only solution.
Scientists Have Political Role Outside Their Labs to Safeguard Humanity
Celebration of scientific discoveries confined only inside the laboratory would be insufficient to achieve social goals, for which the scientific community has to step out beyond the laboratory with social sensitivity and political responsibility.
Glimpses of a Writer’s Trip to Kashmir: Shrines, Springs, Sunsets – and Silences
The best part was the caring warmth of ordinary Kashmiris on the street – the welcoming smiles, free advice and offers to dine with them during a lockdown.
The Tokyo Games Prove that the Olympics are Less Relevant than Ever; Also – Overt Sexualisation at the Games
We ought to focus on fixing our own problems rather than investing our scarce resources in a spectacle that costs us more than we can afford to give. Also – ‘Overt Sexualization’: Why Olympic Women Athletes Ran into Uniform Trouble Before the Games.