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Bengaltattva vs Hindutva: who will win West Bengal? |Part One
by Devdan Chaudhuri
This is an exclusive long-form essay that aims to provide the most comprehensive and incisive understanding of West Bengal Assembly Election 2021: the ground-shifting and momentous battle in post-Independent Bengal. This is the first of three parts.
The Only Treatment is Freedom: Mumia Abu-Jamal and COVID
by Johanna
Fernández
Johanna Fernández, author of The Young Lords: A Radical History and a leading member of the movement to bring Mumia Abu-Jamal and other political prisoners home, reports on Mumia’s COVID-19 diagnosis.
Will Biden’s Central American Plan Slow Migration (or Speed It Up)?
by Aviva Chomsky
https://countercurrents.org/2021/03/will-bidens-central-american-plan-slow-migration-or-speed-it-up/
Although the second half of his plan’s name does, in fact, echo that of left-wing, grassroots organizations like the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES), its content highlights a version of security and prosperity in that region that’s more Cold War-like than CISPES-like. Instead of solidarity (or even partnership) with Central America, Biden’s plan actually promotes an old economic development model that has long benefited U.S. corporations. It also aims
to impose a distinctly militarized version of “security” on the people of that region. In addition, it focuses on enlisting Central American governments and, in particular, their militaries to contain migration through the use of repression.
A Dream-Vision For Canada’s North Shores
by Irwin Jerome
From time to time over the years the historic Bowser Nature Trail, and its fragile greenbelt escarpment slope, located on Canada’s British Columbia North Shore that spans the North Vancouver communities of Lower Capilano and Lower Pemberton Heights, has become the scene of yet another potential Hatfields & McCoys controversy. The perpetual issue is the extent of allowable indiscriminate clear-cutting or neglect of communally-shared green spaces by private land owners, their tree contractors or local Environmental Protection officials themselves.
CHOICES (a partial list)
by David Sparenberg
If we must choose
between civilization and barbarity
we must choose civilization.
But only if the injustices and
atrocities of civilization
do not exceed those of barbarism.
Reimagining US foreign policy
by Ron Forthofer
Since the end of WWII, especially since the breakup of the Soviet Union, it appears as if US political leaders feel they are trapped in a time warp and are unable to break free. They seem to believe that they must repeat the same disastrous foreign policy of regime change over and over. Since 9/11, the US has attacked or supported attacks against Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. The attacks, especially the horrendous US-led war crime against Iraq, have destabilized and created havoc in the Middle East, devastated these nations and caused death and appalling suffering for the people.
Myanmar’s Continuing Horrible Crackdown
Also Reflects The Wider Decline of Democracy
by Bharat Dogra
The on-going crackdown in Myanmar is just now the biggest concern of those devoted to protection of democratic and human rights. The brutal crackdown by the junta unwilling to accept the strong electoral verdict in favor of Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy has already claimed 500 lives within a short period.
Recent Charges Against Suu Kyi Are Grim Reminder of Misuse of Anti Corruption Campaigns
by Bharat Dogra
Recently several charges of corruption have been leveled by the repressive junta against Suu Kyi, the popular leader of Myanmar who recently led her party to a big electoral victory but is being prevented from leading a democratic
government by the military. These have been firmly denied by her lawyer. Despite this, we may see more of such charges in the days to come as false corruption charges are increasingly being used by repressive regimes to create problems for their opponents in various ways.
Violation of COVID norms: Take action against political parties and their leaders under IPC
by E A S Sarma
Senior political leaders are preaching the citizens the necessity of complying with the COVID norms but, it is they who seem to be callous when it comes to encouraging huge rallies in connection with the elections under way in several States. To win elections at any cost, those very same political leaders who give ready sermons to the people on observance of the Covid norms, do not seem to have any hesitation whatsoever in being directly instrumental in encouraging huge political
rallies where it is impossible for the people to observe social distancing. In a way, each election rally in this country can be a Covid super spreader and it will surely endanger the lives of those who attend the rallies and those who come in contact with them.
Assam: The crisis of citizenship rejection letters
by Dr Madabhushi Sridhar
In its present form, the NRC is basically a Rs1,600 crore waste paper that drove many to suicide, made thousands of poor people poorer and be in perpetual fear of being ejected from their homes.
India’s agony and ecstasy over Quad
by M K Bhadrakumar
Aren’t the lotus-eaters in India in a state of blissful forgetfulness or foolish ecstasy that Blinken raised Ladakh at the Alaska talks? The NATO statement after the Ministerial didn’t contain a word on China…European allies are
reluctant to be pushed into an American-led confrontation with China…
Covid pandemic, Lockdown and India’s moral center
by T Navin
Covid pandemic will remain an important chapter in India’s history. This is not only for the public health challenge it caused but it also brought out the deeply hidden flaws, biases, prejudices of the state and society. It was a mirror reflection of the state and society we are living in. The book by Harsh Mander titled “Locking down the poor: The Pandemic and India’s Moral Centre” is an attempt to display these deeply hidden class biases reflected in Indian society.
Role of Religion in violence: A Historic review of its Genesis
by Syed Ehtisham
A review of role of religion in violence
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