Visitors: 581[thrive_text_block color=”note” headline=”Growth must go on – it’s the political imperative everywhere, and it’s destroying the Earth. But there’s no way of greening it, so we need a new system”] [/thrive_text_block] Everyone wants everything – how is that going to work? The promise of economic growth is that the poor can live like the […]
Visitors: 532Rene Wadlow On 13 November, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution, 366 to 30 opposed, on the armed conflict in Yemen expressing the urgent need for a political solution and denouncing “ the conduct of activities in Yemen and areas affected by the conflict that are, directly or indirectly inconsistent with the […]
Visitors: 573[thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”The way discredited stories spread after a chemical weapons massacre in Syria should be a matter of serious concern”] [/thrive_text_block] What do we believe? This is the crucial democratic question. Without informed choice, democracy is meaningless. This is why dictators and billionaires invest so heavily in fake news. Our only defence is […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaIn a recent incident in the United States, yet another unarmed man was shot dead by police after opening his front door in response to their knock. The police were going to serve an arrest warrant on a domestic violence suspect – the man’s neighbour – but went […]
Visitors: 510In a breakthrough study, a group of doctors and basic scientists from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi and Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Research, (JIPMER) Puducherry have laid the long held debate to rest by validating, in human cadavers, that mesentery is a single entity. This debate is continuing since […]
Visitors: 606[thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subverts democracy”] [/thrive_text_block] One of neoliberalism’s promises was that it would free us from bureaucracy. By rolling back the state, it would vanquish the stifling power of officialdom, granting us unprecedented freedom and opportunity. This promise runs through the works of Friedrich Hayek and […]
Visitors: 557 [thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”The rupture of 2008 presents a chance to throw out our iniquitous system that busts the planet – here are some ideas”] [/thrive_text_block] We are still living in the long 20th century. We are stuck with its redundant technologies: the internal combustion engine, thermal power plants, factory farms. We are stuck […]
Visitors: 438 [thrive_text_block color=”light” headline=”The suffering inherent in mass meat production can’t be justified. And as the artificial meat industry grows, the last argument for farming animals has now collapsed”] [/thrive_text_block] What will future generations, looking back on our age, see as its monstrosities? We think of slavery, the subjugation of women, judicial torture, the […]
Vivek Umrao Glendenning “Samajik Yayavar” I believe, we need to think about the contents and the goal of the education at each level, primary to higher to research education. We need to redesign our universities, their purpose and the content of the education. At every level, the education must lead towards actual sustainability, peace and […]
Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonourary Editor, Ground Report India Around the world activists who are strategic thinkers face a daunting challenge to effectively tackle the multitude of violent conflicts, including the threat of human extinction, confronting human society in the early 21st century. I wrote that ‘activists who are strategic thinkers face a daunting challenge’ because there is […]
Chaitanya Davé Now a days, one hears so much noise in American media about Russia spying on and trying to influence US elections of November, 2016. American politicians of both the parties are vociferously complaining about it and condemning Russia for her nefarious behavior of meddling in America’s elections. President Obama even kicked out several Russians […]
Visitors: 781Gary G. Kohls, MD I recently went to a theater production of George Orwell’s ”1984” and also recently viewed the Ken Burns 10 episode documentary “The Vietnam War” on PBS. Although the Burns documentary was flawed in many respects, it was still well worth watching. I highly recommend that everybody watch it. It happens […]
Visitors: 770Robert J. Burrowes In Las Vegas on 1 October 2017, it appears that one man (although it might have been more) killed 59 people and shot and injured another 241 (with almost 300 more injured while fleeing). The incident got a lot of publicity, partly because the man managed to kill more people than […]
Visitors: 920Robert J. Burrowes Gandhi Jayanti – 2 October, the date of Mohandas K. Gandhi’s birth in 1869 and the International Day of Nonviolence – offers an opportunity to reflect on human violence and to ponder ways to end it. There may be a fast way to end human violence but, if there is, Gandhi […]
Visitors: 424Robert J. Burrowes For those of us committed to systematically reducing and, one day, ending human violence, it is vital to understand what is causing and driving it so that effective strategies can be developed for dealing with violence in its myriad contexts. For an understanding of the fundamental cause of violence, see ‘Why […]
Chaitanya Davé Majority of Americans want “Single Payer Healthcare System” or free healthcare but our elected representatives won’t go for it. Most Americans want stricter gun control laws. But our politicians controlled by The National Rifle Association and other die-hard gun lovers, won’t allow it to happen. Fair minded and decent, most Americans prefer minimum wages raised to […]
Visitors: 712Rene Wadlow Edward Carpenter was an English writer, educator, pacifist, and socialist reformer who came from a middle class intellectual family and studied at Cambridge University. As with some of his fellow students who were interested in philosophy and ideas, he was ordained in the Church of England hoping that its outlook and […]
Visitors: 505Rene Wadlow In a 17 August 2017 call for urgent support, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) stated “Over the past 12 months, an average of 1,800 South Sudanese have been arriving in Uganda every day. In addition to the million in Uganda, a million or more South Sudanese are being […]
Visitors: 472Gary G. Kohls, MD [page_section template=’1′ position=’default’ padding_bottom=’on’] [/page_section] “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” – Voltaire “If you offend the powers that be; if you offend the public health establishments; if you offend the pharmaceutical industry and threaten their bottom line (as we did […]
Visitors: 658Robert J Burrowes Racism is not a new phenomenon and while it is an ongoing daily reality for vast numbers of people, it also often bursts from the shadows to remind us that just because we can keep ignoring the endless sequence of ‘minor’ racist incidents, racism has not gone away despite supposedly significant […]
Visitors: 573Ram Puniyani [themify_hr color=”red”] The ‘Quit India’ movement 1942, whose 75th anniversary is currently being celebrated, was the major landmark in the struggle for India’s Independence. On 8th August the Indian National Congress Working Committee Meeting at Gowalia Tank Maidan (now August Kranti Maidan) decided to launch the movement against British rule. This was […]
Dr Gursharan Singh KainthDirector General,Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies India has tremendous potential to attract international students from all over the world. Sadly, our institutions of higher learning have not been able to capitalise on this opportunity. International students are just not applying to Indian universities, recording a drop in the number of enrolments, […]
Visitors: 589 Rene Wadlow In memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello (1948-2003) [themify_quote]The United Nations General Assembly has designated 19 August as “World Humanitarian Day” but celebrated this Monday 21 August to pay tribute to aid workers in humanitarian service in difficult and often dangerous conditions. 19 August was designated in memory of the […]
