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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Yasmin Abu Shammala |Aaron Kirshenbaum |Pratap Antony |Ramzy Baroud
Gaza (Quds News Network)- 203 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since the start of the ongoing Israeli genocidal war in Gaza, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. The last victim was journalist Sa’ed al-Nabhan who was killed after being shot directly by an Israeli sniper while covering Israeli attacks in the Al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on Friday.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Ram Puniyani |Yasmin Abu Shammala |Aaron Kirshenbaum |Pratap Antony
In Islam, “Shirk” refers to the sin of polytheism or idolatry, involving the attribution of partners or equals to God. The literal meaning of Shirk is “sharing” or “partnership,” signifying an act where someone or something is elevated to a status equal to God. This is considered a grave sin as it undermines the foundational principle of Tawhid, the oneness and uniqueness of God.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Yasmin Abu Shammala |Aaron Kirshenbaum |Pratap Antony |Ramzy Baroud
Today, for the first time since the Israeli genocide against Gazans began, I left my home not out of necessity, but out of a deep yearning to visit my university—Al-Aqsa University. The Israeli Occupation had denied me the right to pursue my diploma in education on campus, reducing my studies to a phone screen amidst the destruction that has brought life in Gaza to a complete standstill.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Aaron Kirshenbaum |Yasmin Abu Shammala |Pratap Antony |Hong Jian
Earlier on Wednesday, January 8th, I saw a prominent Zionist commentator and Twitter/X User post, “Has Greta Thunberg taken her keffiyeh off to address the fires in LA yet or are there too many Jews living here for her to be concerned?” The weird implications about a mythical antisemitic malice that climate activist Greta Thunberg has to supposedly fuel her anti-genocide and ecocide beliefs aside, the post is equally embarrassing in its lack of understanding about the exacerbators of Los...
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bartosz Rydlinski |Otto Scharmer |Bhabani Nayak |Pratap Antony
WARSAW – Donald Trump shocked the world in 2016 when he was elected US president, winning swing states in America’s Rust Belt, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, that have traditionally backed Democrats. Much the same story played out in November.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Pratap Antony |Mondeep Borah |MA Krishna
Democracy is not just voting; it’s sustained citizen participation to ensure justice and accountability- Amartya SenIn many Third World countries, democracy has an odd five-year cycle. Election seasons provide people a brief but tremendous sense of empowerment, but the years between often neglected and despairing. Third World politics, which value transactional relationships between governments and citizens over democracy, fuels this “five-yearly democracy”.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bhabani Nayak |Pratap Antony |Mondeep Borah |MA Krishna
The advanced capitalist countries—including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Japan, and several Western European nations—have failed to offer their citizens a genuine range of choices in terms of availability and accessibility of multiple political parties, different ideologies, alternative policies options, and visions for the future.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Pratap Antony |Mondeep Borah |MA Krishna |Bhabani Nayak
When light strikes an object the angle of the reflected ray formed at the intersection is the angle of incidence. The law of reflection states that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. The basic angle of incidence between government and citizens in a democracy should one of equality.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Joseph Gerson |Bharat Dogra |Pratap Antony |Alice Slater
With the world, our species, facing the greatest danger of nuclear apocalypse since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, this year’s Peace Prize will refocus world attention on the urgency of renewing nuclear disarmament diplomacy. The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nihon Hidankyo is long overdue and could not come at a more important time. The Hibakusha (A-bomb witness/survivors) of Nihon Hidankyo have been among the world’s most courageous and steadfast advocates of nuclear disarmament.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |M K Bhadrakumar |Pratap Antony |Linda Bilmes
If a country is entangled in a destructive and messy war what is its leader most likely to say? In most cases the answer would be that the leader would be looking for a very early end to war. But at least two leaders placed in such a situation today are saying or suggesting something very different.
