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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Geet Kumar Dahariya |Ranjan Solomon |Dan Corjescu |Ramzy Baroud
six members of lawyers’ team heard the testimonies of the allegations of burial denial, religious functions and intimidations of boycott from village community under Raibania police station in Balasore District on 15th March 2025. The team consists of Clara D’Souza, Sujata Jena, Gitanjali Senapati, Sophia Mariam, Balthazar and Ajaya Kumar Sigh interacted with the community leaders and intimidated villagers.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Dan Lieberman |Ranjan Solomon |Bharat Dogra |Medea Benjamin
Sufficiently gruesome to learn of the casualties in the Ukraine/Russo war. More gruesome to learn that the statistics don’t reflect actuality and are only another weapon ─ humiliate the opponent and have the public believe the enemy ignores the deaths of its soldiers. The Kyiv Independent (???), Friday, March 14, 2025, General Staff: Russia has lost 891,660 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ranjan Solomon |Bharat Dogra |Medea Benjamin |Jeffrey D. Sachs
Ukraine and the US recently proposed a ceasefire agreement, but Russia has rejected it and offered an alternative proposal. Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that while he agrees with the idea of a temporary ceasefire, it should lead to long-term peace and eliminate the initial causes of the war. Putin’s alternative proposal undermines the US and Ukraine’s goals, as it would grant Russia significant advantages.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Kim Petersen |Lawrence Wittner |Norman Solomon |Ranjan Solomon
While living in the Middle East, a Palestinian friend taught me about Arabic culture, which he said was still preserved in Yemen. Arabic etiquette, he told me, was that a guest was to be protected, housed, and otherwise looked after. White House etiquette is something else. I was quite taken aback by viewing how Donald Trump and JD Vance ganged up on their Ukrainian guest Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Arjun Banerjee |Ranjan Solomon |Vidya Bhushan Rawat |Ramzy Baroud
A week ago, the U.S. voted with Russia in the U.N. on the issue of the Ukraine war. The same Washington that led the charge to make Russia a pariah among countries for it. This comes as the E.U. and Ukraine itself have been excluded from the peace talks for the future resolution of the conflict. But, as with the Ship of Theseus, we know that the Washington we see today is not the one we started with.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ranjan Solomon |Shiran Illanperuma |Vidya Bhushan Rawat |Ramzy Baroud
Is Europe the embodiment of authentic multilaterism, or has it reduced itself to being a mere collective of subtle, unspoken post-colonialism projects that pass off as initiatives of international cooperation and assistance? Does the European Union today possess even the most essential modicum of ingredients within its systems to be a force for a just and humanitarian world? Or does it seek to tacitly continue patterns of an unequal and unjust world just as it did in the colonial era?
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Norman Solomon |Ranjan Solomon |Chandra Muzaffar |John Ruehl
Donald Trump’s power has thrived on the economics, politics, and culture of war. The runaway militarism of the last quarter-century was a crucial factor in making President Trump possible, even if it goes virtually unmentioned in mainstream media and political discourse. That silence is particularly notable among Democratic leaders, who have routinely joined in bipartisan messaging to boost the warfare state that fueled the rise of Trumpism.
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1 month ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ranjan Solomon |Chandra Muzaffar |John Ruehl |Michael Albert
The world has entered a new era in global politics. In just the three weeks that Trump has been in power, he has created disarray on a range of issues. The world is rather despondent but clearly unwilling to allow the USA to assume the reigns of super power to which all others, especially, the weak must pay obeisance. A major democracy – if you can any longer reckon that the USA is a bona fide democracy – has faulted, and faltered.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Rebecca Gordon |Ranjan Solomon |Michael Albert |Brett Wilkins
This past weekend my partner and I got together with a group of friends. We’ve been meeting every six weeks or so since 1982. Originally, this group of lesbians convened to talk about sex: what we were doing, what we wanted to do, what we fantasized about doing. But you know how it is with any relationship. Over time, it can come to embrace so many other things. That’s how it’s been with the group we call “Group” (or sometimes “A Closed Group with No Name”).
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ranjan Solomon |Lubna Masarwa |Michael Albert |Gideon Polya
A sweeping wave of international condemnation has followed Donald Trump’s announcement on Tuesday that the United States would take control of Gaza after relocating its Palestinian population elsewhere. Donald Trump clandestinely launched his plan to take over Gaza with a queer set of ideas. Playing God, his audacity allowed him to actually say: “‘US Will take Over the Gaza Strip’ to Rebuild”. Sitting with Netanyahu, they both make-believe in fairy tales even at their age.
