Share Human Rights Defender faced intimidation and harassment from police due to his work against impunity Dr Lenin Raghuvanshi My name is Lenin Raghuvanshi. I am a human rights activist and founder and CEO of Peoples’ Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR). On the 21st April 2018, my younger brother Kanad was badly beaten by some people while attending a marriage ceremony in my neighbourhood. This resulted in a severe head injury […]
Share The Long Road of Charles Maurras: Cultural Regionalist to Narrow Nationalist Rene Wadlow Charles Maurras: 20 April 1868 -16 November 1952 At a time when there is a growth in many parts of Europe of a narrow nationalism often linked to xenophobia and violence, it is useful to look at the life of Charles Maurrras and what he called “integral nationalism”. Maurras is in many ways the […]
Share TERRORISM ‘POST’-ISIS –by Prof Michael Brenner Prof Michael Brenner Most Americans think they know what “terrorism” is: what happened on 9/11, what happened in Orlando. Islamic militants murdering innocent civilians out of hate and in the cause of Islamist jihad. Experience shapes how we understand the world. The Global War On Terror has been oriented accordingly. More formal definitions of “terrorism” try to […]
Share Appeal by SCH (Supreme Council of Humanity) Igor KondrashinPresident, WPFSecretary-General, the Supreme Council of Humanity, SCH Dear colleagues, The Committee of atomic scientists, which includes 15 Nobel Prize winners, 25 January, this year, decided to reduce in 2018 the symbolic time before the End of the world for another half minute. Now only two symbolic minutes are left until the world Apocalypse. See at […]
Share Is this the end of civilisation? We could take a different path — George Monbiot George Monbiot Environmental breakdown, coupled with the self-destructive behaviour of governments, has set us on a road to ruin. And we’re blocking off all means of escape It’s a good question, but it seems too narrow: “Is western civilisation on the brink of collapse?” the lead article in this week’s New Scientist asks. The answer […]
Share To Liberate Cambodia Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonourary Editor, Ground Report India A long-standing French protectorate briefly occupied by Japan during World War II, Cambodia became independent in 1953 as the French finally withdrew from Indochina. Under the leadership of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia remained officially neutral, including during the subsequent US war on Indochina. However, by the mid-1960s, parts […]
Share Is America the Greatest Country on Earth? Chaitanya DavéFor as long as I remember, our politicians from the president down to the Congressmen and Senators have been crowing at us that “America is the greatest nation on earth”! Americans have been led to believe this. Our kids grow up believing this. Let’s examine where America stands compared to rest of the world:Healthcare […]
Share Musings: Christianity’s social message of Love conquers all still remain most powerful Vidya Bhushan Rawat I never got the luxury of studying in the schools owned by the Christians but learn a few things about them when my daughter got the opportunity to study there. Most of these schools are purely commercial and cater the middle class upper castes. The children will learn values of different faiths in […]
Share Inviting you for an education project towards Social Harmony and Sustainability 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 […]
Share HISTORY’S GREATEST AND MOST DANGEROUS HEGEMON 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 […]
Share Why are all those Racists so Terrified?’ Robert 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 efforts […]
Share How to Revive the spirit of Quit India Movement? Ram 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 the […]
Share Duty to Warn: Donald Trump and America’s Moral Crises – Will Scientific and Theological Ignorance, Moral Blindness and Historical Illiteracy Triumph? Gary G. Kohls, MD [themify_hr color=”red”] Q: If Donald Trump, the Commander of Chief of the US Military, is Historically, Theologically and Morally Blind and Also Scientifically Illiterate, Should He be Making Life and Death Decisions for the Planet? [themify_quote] “We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. […]
Share Social Evolution [themify_hr color=”red”] Europe Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, Capitalism, Wind of Change Asia and Africa: In Europe, the feudal class rebelled against the excesses of kings and forced them to grant some powers to the aristocracy. Civil rights were celebrated in the Magna Carta. Parliaments were born. Europe entered the Enlightenment phase. Industrial revolution caused a […]
Share Liu Xiaobo and Charter 08: Fire under the Ashes Rene Wadlow The media reports on the recent death of Liu Xiaobo, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, of cancer after years of imprisonment, have focused on his life, especially the prison years and the continued surveillance of his wife, the poet Liu Xia. There has been less emphasis on the Charter 08 positions which still exist […]
Share America the Beautiful from 1974 to 9/11 [themify_box] Attention ‘wannabees’ who think they are as good as White Americans. This is an abstract from a chapter from my first book,”A Medical Doctor Examines Life on Three Continents,” [/themify_box]When I arrived in the country in 1974, the United States of America was friendlier to immigrants and diverse ethnicities than any other country I […]
Share Duty to Warn: “Just Get Your Damn Shots” Dr Gary G. Kohls, MD [themify_hr color=”red”] The title above is a verbatim quote taken from any number of seriously uninformed TV physicians, paid trolls and paid celebrities as they have gleefully joined the popular CDC, WHO, AAP, AAFP and AMA-sponsored campaigns that have denigrated (and therefore infuriated) the witnesses of the hundreds of thousands […]
Share PROTESTS AT ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE AS BRITISH MINING FIRM CLAIMS 'NO DUTY OF CARE' FOR GROSS POLLUTION IN ZAMBIA UK miner Vedanta Resources’ today argued against a major pollution case being tried in UK in the first day of its appeal hearing in London. The hearing was met with solidarity protests at the Royal Courts of Justice demanding justice in the eleven year case on behalf of the victims. The May 2016 London […]
Share Support the Nuclear Ban Treaty Nuclear Age Peace Foundation We have exciting news! On June 15, more than 130 nations will re-convene at the United Nations for the final session of negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Sign this petition today to tell the President of the UN conference, Ambassador Elayne Whyte Gomez of Costa Rica, that you […]
Share Future of Democracy, Social Justice and Secularism in India Report on Round Table Discussion on “Future of Democracy, Social Justice and Secularism in India” Introduction The Round Table Discussion on Future of Democracy, Social Justice and Secularism in India, was organized by Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS), Mumbai, on 28th May at GD Parikh Hall, University of Mumbai, Santacruz, Mumbai. Approximately […]
Share Children: A Priority Rene Wadlow The way in which a society treats its children reflects not only its qualities of compassion and protective caring but also its sense of justice, its commitment to the future and its urge to better the human condition for coming generations. As the World Declaration on the Survival, Protection and Development of Children […]