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Oct 12, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Sanjeev Sirohi |Rakesh Shukla |Madabhushi Sridhar |Bharat Dogra
Nothing on earth can ever be more unfortunate than this irrefutable fact that even as India has gone way ahead of celebrating its 78th “National Independence Day” yet we see lamentably that the State of Uttar Pradesh which has maximum population more than 26 crores which CM and PM keeps reiterating and so also has maximum MPs both in Lok Sabha and in Rajya Sabha and so also has maximum MLAs among all the States and so also has maximum villages more than one lakh and so also has maximum number...
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Rakesh Shukla |Madabhushi Sridhar |Bill McKibben |Abdulrahim P Vijapur
To, Sh. Manan Kumar Mishra, Chairman, Bar Council of India CC: Sh. Srimanto Sen, Secretary, Bar Council of India Re: The illegality and unconstitutionality of the notification dated 24.09.2024 issued by BCI regarding implementation of criminal background check system, employment status, biometric attendance, installation of CCTV Cameras in Law Colleges Dear Sir, We the undersigned, lawyers, law teachers, law students and other concerned citizens of India write to you to express our concern...
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Rakesh Shukla |S G Vombatkere |Bharat Dogra |Hiren Gohain
Friends of the Earth India demands that the Govt of India ministry of Jal Shakti and the Gujarat Government, which owns and operates the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd — takes urgent measures and immediately open more gates of the Sardar Sarovar Dam in an orderly way, to save thousands of families from being drowned and their houses and property destroyed.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Rakesh Shukla |S G Vombatkere |Bharat Dogra |Sumanta Banerjee
Noting the fact that thousands of families are threatened by the rapid rise of backwaters in the Narmada Valley, the Vikalp Sangam General Assembly consisting of over 85 organisations, movements and networks, demands that the central and Gujarat state governments, immediately open more gates of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) dam in an orderly way.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Kevin Reed |Gideon Polya |Rakesh Shukla
The Israeli war on Gaza has become a war on Palestinian children. This was as true on October 7 as it is today. On August 17, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for a seven-day ceasefire to allow children in Gaza to be vaccinated against polio. “I am appealing to all parties to provide concrete assurances right away, guaranteeing humanitarian pauses for the campaign,” he said.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Kevin Reed |Gideon Polya |Rakesh Shukla |Nora Barrows-Friedman
Israel stepped up military operations in the West Bank for a seventh day on Tuesday, in the second front of its genocidal campaign against the Palestinians.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Gideon Polya |Rakesh Shukla |Nora Barrows-Friedman |Alaa Alhattab
During the Gaza Genocide I have sent numerous Letters to the editors of major Australian Mainstream media but only several have been published, this testing the limits of pro-peace free speech and factual, science-based and humanitarian communication in US-, Zionist- and Apartheid Israel-perverted, look-the-other-way Australia that is endlessly fed lying propaganda by mendacious and traitorous Mainstream journalist, editor, politician, academic and commentariat presstitutes.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Rakesh Shukla |Nora Barrows-Friedman |Alaa Alhattab |Kevin Reed
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you – Nietzsche Fredy Perlman, author and one of the founders of the Black and Red collective in the US , all of whose cousins, aunts, and grandparents died in Nazi concentration camps or gas chambers except two uncles surmises in the early eighties[1] “I think I’ve now shown that the experience of the Holocaust, whether lived or peeped, does not in itself make an individual a critic of Pogroms, and also that it does not confer special...
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Rakesh Shukla |S G Vombatkere |Bharat Dogra |M Adil Khan
Sardar Sarovar flood level increase threatens submergence of many villages- Appeal to the authorities not to repeat the deliberate neglect of human values as it happened in September last year To Shri Raj Kumar Chief Secretary Govt of Gujarat Dear Shri Raj Kumar, I take note of the alert issued of flood water level at Sardar Sarovar Dam reaching a potentially dangerous level at present, immediately threatening the lives of people in 25 villages In principle, submergence of any land and other...
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Christopher Ketcham |Philip Farruggio |Liz Theoharis |Rakesh Shukla
Roughly a decade ago, a 30-year-old economic statistician at Oxford University named Max Roser set out to transform the way we see the world using datasets. As he later described his mission in a statement of purpose, he wanted to instill “trust in ourselves” that we can “achieve extraordinary progress for entire societies.” His worldview rested on what he considered the three most salient facts of global civilization: “The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
