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Dec 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Srinivas Katherasala |Sandesh Deshmukh |Bharat Dogra |Farooque Chowdhury
World Soil Day reminds us of the vital role soil plays in sustaining life on Earth. However, celebrating soil for just one day is not enough to address the urgent issue of soil degradation. To secure our future food production, we must adopt a proactive and ongoing approach to soil monitoring, management, and conservation. Human activities, driven by the pursuit of comfort and progress, have severely degraded soil health.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Omar Raad Chowdhury |Farooque Chowdhury |Jessica Corbett
To,Dr. P. Krishnaiah, I.A.S. (Retd.) Chairman, APPCBSub: Misinformation and lack of transparency in toxic release incidents and accidents in general – Incident at Tagoor laboratories in particularDear Dr Krishanaiah Garu,Fatal accidents are happening regularly in Telugu states, and AP is leading in fatalities. We have been following the accidents since the uncontrolled release of styrene in May 2020.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | P J James |Anuraj Ennai |Farooque Chowdhury |Yanis Iqbal
It was in January 2017 that CPI, the second largest ally of the LDF government in Kerala led by CPM Polit Bureau member Pinarayi Vijayan, had accused the latter as “Modi in mundu” (dhoti-clad Modi). However, the developments since then have reached a stage now such that instead of BJP, Vijayan’s links with RSS which currently uses BJP as its principal political tool, are becoming well-defined and deep-rooted in Kerala.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Richard Falk |Gideon Polya |Farooque Chowdhury
It was good to hear that voice again. A voice of provoking interest that pitter patters, feline across a parquet, followed by the usual devastating conclusion. Julian Assange’s last public address was made in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. There, he was a guest vulnerable to the capricious wishes of changing governments. At Belmarsh Prison in London, he was rendered silent, his views conveyed through visitors, legal emissaries and his family.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Omar Raad Chowdhury |Farooque Chowdhury |Robert Campion
An explosion occurred, in the early afternoon on 21 August, at the Escientia Advanced Sciences, a pharma firm’s plant, in the Achutapuram Special Economic Zone, Anakapalle, near the port city of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (AP). At least 17 people died and 41 were injured. Around 380 employees work in two shifts at the plant. The accident took place during lunchtime around 2:15 pm, averting a major disaster.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Shamsul Islam |Farooque Chowdhury |A K Shiburaj
Criously this Independence Day,an event that frankly arouses little enthusiasm these days,a major section of vernacular newspapers celebrated the occasion with stories of Partition and of the mighty Vallabhbhai Patel manfully heaving as big a chunk of territory into our country as possible.
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Aug 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Vijay Prashad |Arun Mitra |Farooque Chowdhury
The Ukraine conflict has very high costs in terms of loss of life and perhaps even higher costs in terms of the kind of escalation that in a worst case scenario can even lead to a nuclear war and WW3. In fact amidst all the ongoing conflicts, no other conflict or war has higher chance of escalating into nuclear war or WW3 than the Ukraine war. Hence while peaceful solutions for all conflicts are needed, nowhere is the urgency of this as acute as in the context of the Ukraine war.
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Jul 31, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Richard Falk |Gideon Polya |Farooque Chowdhury
The sordid story on the CIA-backed operation against the WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange during his time cramped in London’s Ecuadorian Embassy continues to froth and thicken. US officials have persisted in their reticent attitude, refusing to cooperate with Spain’s national high court, the Audiencia Nacional, regarding its investigation into the Agency’s espionage operations against the publisher, spearheaded by the Spanish security firm Undercover (UC) Global.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Bharat Dogra |Vijay Prashad |Farooque Chowdhury
Bring out the bon bons, the bubbles, and the praise filled memoranda for that old alliance. At the three-quarter century mark of its existence, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is showing itself to be a greater nuisance than ever, gossiping, meddling, and dreaming of greater acts of mischief under the umbrella of manufactured insecurity. It is also being coquettish to certain countries (Ukraine, figures prominently in the wooing stakes) making promises it can never make good.
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Jul 20, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Vijay Prashad |Arun Mitra |Farooque Chowdhury |Johannes Stern
At the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Washington, the focus was on Ukraine. In the Washington Declaration, the NATO leaders wrote, “Ukraine’s future is in NATO.” Ukraine formally applied to join NATO in September 2022, but soon found that despite widespread NATO support, several member states (such as Hungary) were uneasy with escalating a conflict with Russia.
