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Humanity is currently facing its most significant threat with climate change and the depletion of our resources. This is not a distant issue; it is already impacting us now. We see its effects in various conflicts over resources around the globe, escalating costs for food and fuel, increasing hunger, devastating natural disasters, water shortages, economic struggles, rising unemployment, social unrest, growing violations of human rights, and severe environmental damage. If we do not take immediate steps to alter our lifestyles and protect our only home, planet Earth, this crisis could potentially lead to the extinction of humanity and many other species.

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Celebrate This Year’s World Book Day By Gifting Yourself With Ambedkar’s Unique Biography 'Iconoclast' | Countercurrents

3 days ago | countercurrents.org | Gurpreet Singh

If anyone really wants to know more about the towering Indian scholar and undisputed leader of Dalits, or the so-called untouchables, Iconoclast is a must read. This voluminous book came out in 2024, written by renowned columnist and published author Anand Teltumbde. It’s a comprehensive study of the life and work of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar.
UC Berkeley Calls For Self Determination, Resistance To Trump| Countercurrents

4 days ago | countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini

Speaking from the Mario Savio steps on April 17, in front of Sproul Hall, Robert Reich, UC Berkeley Public Policy professor and former Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration, addressed several hundred people on this “National Day of Action for Education,” calling on them to resist the assertion of control over higher education by Donald Trump.
Appalled At Funding Genocide, Over 2,000 US Taxpayers Turn To The UN For Redress| Countercurrents

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Marjorie Cohn |Phil Pasquini |Kathy Kelly |John Rachel

Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG), a nongovernmental grassroots mass movement comprised of more than 2,000 taxpayers who have been protesting their congressional representatives’ votes to fund Israel’s genocide in Gaza, filed an unprecedented report with the UN Human Rights Council on April 7. “We have gone through all the channels open to us in our effort to stop U.S. officials from using our tax dollars to fund genocide.
Tax Day Protests Call For An End To Taxpayer Financed Wars| Countercurrents

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Phil Pasquini |Binoy Kampmark |Bhabani Nayak |Michael Albert

SAN FRANCISCO (04-15) – Today being Tax Day, a day most Americans dread, activists from across the country protested the unfairness of taxes allowing the rich to pay less than their fair share and in how the federal government spends taxpayers’ hard-earned money.
Indonesian Defence Policy, Russia And Australian Anxiety| Countercurrents

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Binoy Kampmark |Bhabani Nayak |Michael Albert |Liz Theoharis

Island states tend to be anxious political entities. Encircled by water, seemingly defended by natural obstacles, the fear of corrupting penetration is never far. Threats of such unwanted intrusion are embellished and magnified. In the case of Australia, these have varied from straying Indonesian fishermen who are seen as terrors of border security, to the threatened establishment of military bases in the Indo-Pacific by China.
Analysing The Philosophy Of Pacifism Of John Ruskin And Leo Tolstoy And Its Significance In Today's World| Countercurrents

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Arun Mitra |Ann Wright |Medea Benjamin |Nagesh Chaudhari

Introduction Pacifism as a concept emerged during the 19th century. It is the philosophy of renunciation of war and the complete opposition to it under all conditions. We must try to understand the backdrop to the emergence of such a philosophy and why it emerged only during the 19th century. It evolved through the writings of John Ruskin and Leo Tolstoy.
Will Trump Unite China And Europe?| Countercurrents

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Nancy Qian |Nilofar Suhrawardy |Kumar Singh |Marietje Schaake

ROME – With little economic or political rationale, US President Donald Trump has introduced some of the highest tariffs in more than a century, and imposed them on nearly every economy in the world. Then, suddenly, despite his insistence that the tariffs were here to stay, he paused the new “reciprocal” tariffs for all countries except one, keeping in place an across-the-board 10% levy for the rest.
Israeli Targeting Of Al-Ahli Arab Hospital Is A Deliberate Assault On Life And Gaza’s Last Refuge| Countercurrents

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Neha Saigal |Elias Akleh |Zane McNeill |Brett Wilkins

Palestinian Territory – The Israeli forces’ deliberate destruction of Gaza City’s Al-Ahli Arab Hospital reflects a broader intent to systematically dismantle essential aspects of life in the Gaza Strip.
Fortress America-Trump’s Tricontinental Vision For A New World Order| Countercurrents

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Alfred McCoy |Marwan Asmar |Sanjay N. Parate |Tom Engelhardt

Most of us can remember at least a few troubling scenes from George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984: the mandatory love demanded for the spectral dictator Big Brother; the malleability of facts at the Ministry of Truth; or the ruling party’s memorably grim slogans, “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery.” But for me, the most disturbing image of all — and I first read the book in high school — was the “Two Minutes Hate,” aroused among the public by threatening images on giant video screens.
Supreme Court's Gandhi Judgment| Countercurrents

1 week ago | countercurrents.org | Hiren Gohain |Suresh Khairnar |Bharat Dogra |Ram Puniyani

Many in this country are likely to shake their heads at the SC’s judgment on Tushar Gandhi’s petition against the Government of India’s decision to spruce up the Sabarmati Ashram.The site is intimately associated not only with Gandhijee’s life work,but also with his vision and philosophy.Austerity and simplicity,his concept of ‘bread labour’,the obligation of everyone to discharge his share of manual labour to the national labour in order to deserve the services and goods produced by his...