Share Climate Change and us the People –Chaitanya Davé Chaitanya Davé We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.Native American Proverb Global warming or Climate Change is real. The earth and its atmosphere, oceans and rivers are getting warmer and warmer year after year. Out of last 17 years, 16 were the warmest in the history in […]
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 Justice Rajinder Sachar : A life dedicated to people’s movement, socialist vision and human rights –by Vidya Bhushan Rawat Vidya Bhushan Rawat One does not remember Justice Rajinder Sachar when he was the Chief Justice of Delhi High Court in 1985 but it is a fact that a forthright person like him was never to the liking of those in power. As a judge in Delhi High Court, he was deeply disturbed and upset […]
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 Duty to Warn : The Painful Truth About Last Year’s Failed Flu Vaccine –Dr Gary G. Kohls, MD Dr Gary G Kohls, MD“…most ‘flu’ appears to have nothing to do with influenza. Every year, hundreds of thousands of respiratory specimens are tested across the US. Of those tested, on average 16% are found to be influenza positive.” – From the British Medical Journal editor, Peter Doshi, MD “71 people would need to be treated […]
Share Nonviolence or Nonexistence? The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. –Dr Robert J. Burrowes Robert J. Burrowes PhDFifty years ago, on 4 April 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The night before he died, King gave another of his many evocative speeches; this one at the packed Mason Temple in Memphis. The speech included these words: ‘Men for years now have been talking about war and peace. Now […]
Share “GANDHI, UNTOUCHABLES AND ME” : a short movie by Rao Rampilla, an indian origin Hollywood actor, producer and writer Rao Rampilla Rao wrote his participation in the struggle of Dalits at JNU, New Delhi as a play (Gandhi, Untouchables and Me) and to reach greater audience made it as a short film. Attached is a synopsis of the short film. This includes a 40 minutes film and a bonus half an hour episode from Bollywood to Hollywood […]
Share THE DEVIL’S DYNAMO –John Scales Avery Prof John Scales Avery, PhDwas part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace PrizeI would like to announce the publication of a new book entitled “The Devil’s Dynamo”. It is a collection of articles and book chapters that I have written about the way in which military-industrial complexes throughout the world drive and perpetuate […]
Share The Global Elite is Insane Revisited –Robert J. Burrowes Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonourary Editor, Ground Report IndiaIn 2014 I wrote an article titled ‘The Global Elite is Insane’. I want to elaborate what I explained in the earlier article so that people have a clearer sense of what we are up against in our struggle to create a world of peace, justice and ecological […]
Share CONFERENCE ON “SOCIAL JUSTICE: PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE” Samajik Samanta Sangathan 17-18 March 2018,Timing- 9 AM to 6.0 PM, Chief Guest- Uday Narayan Chaudhary Venue- J-12/3, Kan kunj Vaishya samaj, Nati Imli, Bhrat Milap maidan, Panchayati Bhavan, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh Our Great social heroes like Birsa Munda, Bhagat Singh, Mahatma Phule, Baba Saheb Bhim Rao Ambedkar and BP Mandal envisioned an India where all sections of […]
Share On Track for Extinction: Can Humanity Survive? –Robert J. Burrowes Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonourary Editor, Ground Report India Anyone reading the scientific literature (or the progressive news outlets that truthfully report this literature) knows that homo sapiens sapiens is on the fast track to extinction, most likely some time between 2025 and 2040. For a taste of the evidence in this regard focusing on the climate, see […]
Share Ecuador Endangered –John Seed John SeedOrder of Australia Medal (OAM)by the Australian Government The tropical Andes of Ecuador are at the top of the world list of biodiversity hotspots in terms of vertebrate species, endemic vertebrates, and endemic plants. Ecuador has more orchid and hummingbird species than Brazil, which is 32 times larger, and more diversity than the entire […]
Share Invitation of Papers for the 42nd International Course on the The Future of Religion: The Dialectic of Secularization Prof Rudolf J. SiebertProfessor of Religion and SocietyIUC Course Director and Yalta Course Director,Director of the WMU Center for Humanistic Future StudiesWestern Michigan UniversityDepartment of Comparative ReligionKalamazoo, Michigan, USAHonourary International Advisor, Ground Report India IUC Dubrovnik, Croatia. Inter University Centre of the Western Michigan University, USACall for Papers for the 42nd International Course on theThe Future […]
Share Indresh Kumar, central executive member of Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh RSS, talking on “Peace, Environment and Bharat Tibet Sahyog Manch” Indresh Kumar (centre) with Speaker Khenpo Sonam Tenphel (right) and Deputy Speaker Acharya Yeshi Phuntsok (left) of the Tibetan Parliament (Photo-courtesy-tibet.net)Indresh Kumar is the senior member, National Executive, Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh. Indresh Kumar is also the patron and the key person of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), an organisation of RSS, Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh. Vivek Umrao interviewed Indresh […]
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 Indresh Kumar, central executive member of Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh RSS, talking about Rashtriya Muslim Manch RMM of RSS Indresh KumarIndresh Kumar is the senior member, National Executive, Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh. Indresh Kumar is also the patron and the key person of the Muslim Rashtriya Manch (MRM), an organisation of RSS, Rashtriya SwayamSewak Sangh. Vivek Umrao interviewed Indresh Kumar in January 2010 on various issues.
Share The Fear Driving US Nuclear Strategy — Dr Robert J. Burrowes Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonourary Editor, Ground Report India The United States Department of Defense released its latest ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’ (NPR) on 2 February, updating the last one issued in 2010 during the previous administration. See ‘Nuclear Posture Review 2018’. The Executive Summary of the NPR is also available, if you prefer. See ‘Nuclear Posture […]
Share VIETNAM: WAS & COULD HAVE BEENS –by Prof Michael Brenner We all are familiar with George Santayana’s dictum that “those who ignore history are destined to repeat it.” If the past referred to notable successes, then repetition would not be a bad thing. Of course, he had in mind costly failures. His skeptical view of human enterprise held that initiative rarely achieved its end unless […]
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 Korea: An Olympic Truce: Time for Concerted Non-governmental Efforts Rene Wadlow The holding of the Winter Olympics in South Korea from 9 to 25 February followed by the Paralympics 9 to 18 March may be an an opportunity to undertake negotiations in good faith to reduce tensions on the Korean Peninsula and to establish, or re-establish, forms of cooperation between the two Korean governments. […]
Share In Conversation witih Mr Arun Kumar, General Secretary, Federation of Ambedkarite and Buddhist Organisation, UK Mr Arun Kumar is the General Secretary, Federation of Ambedkarite and Buddhist Organisation ( FABO) UK. He originally hailed from Punjab and migrated to UK in 1977 after completing his matriculation. He has been a very hard worker who had documented huge amount of glorious work done by Ambedkarites in United Kingdom. He lives in […]
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 Why Fear and Self-hatred Destroy Human Sharing and Solidarity Robert J. Burrowes PhDHonourary Editor, Ground Report India As our world spirals deeper into an abyss from which it is becoming increasingly difficult to extricate ourselves, some very prominent activists have lamented the lack of human solidarity in the face of the ongoing genocide of the Rohingya. See ‘The Rohingya tragedy shows human solidarity is a […]
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 Has India done enough for Tibet’s cause? N. S. Venkataraman Nandini Voice for The Deprived More than six decades have gone after China forcibly entered Tibet and occupied the land and unjustifiably claimed that Tibet belongs to it.. His Holiness the Dalai Lama had no alternative other than leaving Tibet with his disciples and he entered Indian territory on 31st March,1959. When China […]