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Jan 21, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Ellen Isaacs |Juan Cole |Eric London |Soma Marla
Trump’s opening fascist tirade, during which I kept picturing him with a little moustache and straight arm salute, was designed to engender fear. He wanted to make it clear to all that you join in his mass campaign of jingoism and racism or you will be a victim.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Ellen Isaacs |Juan Cole |Eric London |Soma Marla
In the first hour of Trumpdom My new King gave to me Millions o’ deportees In the second hour of Trumpdom My new King gave to me One border closing and Millions o’ deportees In the third hour of Trumpdom My new King gave to me One canal a-taken One border closing and Millions o’ deportees In the fourth hour of Trumpdom, My new King gave to me One gulf renaming One canal a-taken One border closing and Millions o’ deportees In the fifth hour of Trumpdom My new King gave to me Women’s rights...
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Eric London |Soma Marla |Phil Pasquini |Andrea Mazzarino
by Eric London and Andrea LoboDonald Trump’s second term began with his signing the first in a series of unprecedented executive orders aimed at restricting immigration and democratic rights. Trump signed an initial set of orders in front of a crowd of supporters chanting “USA! USA! USA!” at an arena in Washington D.C. and returned to the White House where he signed further orders. Included among those signed are a ban on birthright citizenship.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Ranjan Solomon |Eric London |Soma Marla |Rima Najjar
Washington (Quds News Network)- On his first day in office, US President Donald Trump rescinded sanctions imposed by the Biden administration on far-right Israeli settler groups and individuals accused of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The new White House website said Trump rescinded Executive Order 14115 issued on Feb.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Vikas Meshram |Bharat Dogra |Uday Kumar Saw |Soma Marla
The roots of the agricultural crisis in India lie in a variety of factors that collectively make the situation more challenging for the country’s farmers. Despite agriculture being the backbone of the Indian economy, it often receives inadequate attention. The issues in agriculture are not merely short-term but have long-term implications as well. Over the past three decades, neoliberal policies have accelerated this crisis. India’s agricultural sector is currently undergoing a significant crisis.
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Nov 9, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | Soma Marla
On the 135th birth anniversary of first Prime Minister the nation fondly remembers Jawaharlal Nehru as builder of democratic modern India. Pandit Nehru built scientific foundation by establishing iconic national scientific institutions and attempted to use science to change the prevalent mind set to bring socio cultural transformation in the newly liberated backward nation.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Soma Marla |Kandathil Sebastian |Satya Sagar
by Dr Md Afroz & Dr Md Tabrez AlamBackground:“Labharti” politics where parties promise “freebies” or material benefits to citizens—has become a strong vote-getter. Labharti politics has become nationwide, providing subsidised food, electricity, health, education and cash transfers. This pattern shows parties’ efforts to fulfil low-income citizens’ immediate needs but raises issues about their long-term durability.
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Patrick Martin |Robert Hunziker |Cesar Uco |Soma Marla
The largest hurricane to hit the US mainland this year, Hurricane Helene hit the Florida coastline late Thursday as a Category Four storm, devastating much of the Big Bend area of the northern part of the state, then moving rapidly northward as a huge rainstorm, causing flooding and other weather-related damage in as many as 15 states. The death toll is already at 42, and expected to rise considerably.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Robert Hunziker |Cesar Uco |Soma Marla |Bill Henderson
Climate Week/NYC September 22-29, 2024, is underway and expects 100,000 attendees for cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and expensive rooms in NYC’s ultra-expensive hotels amidst breast-pounding speeches and promises to fix civilizations’ biggest threat to continued existence. For over 30 years, climate change conference commitments to do something constructive have been embarrassing flops. What will Climate Week/NYC come up with to fix a broken climate system that’s been decades in the making?
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
mainstreamweekly.net | Soma Marla
Everyone agrees to the fact that Climate change is caused principally by burning of fossil fuels. Capital consumed heavily these fuels in industrialization especially during the last hundred years. Powerful Western nations and big capital instead of elimination of harmful use of hydrocarbons are suggesting other green washing technologies as a solution. Still a s small window is open to mitigate climate crisis by adopting ecological solutions to address this crisis.
