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$150 billion of oil money has been stolen from Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003
by Countercurrents Collective
An estimated $150 billion of stolen money has been smuggled out of Iraq in corrupt
deals since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Iraqi President Barham Salih said Sunday.
The Social Responsibility of Scientists
by John Scales Avery
We must educate our scientists in such a way that the acquisition of a sense of social responsibility will be part of their education. The latest book by John Scales Avery.
Australian ABC Airs Former US Ambassador Adumbrating Total Expulsion Of Occupied Palestinians
by Dr Gideon Polya
The Australian ABC (the taxpayer-funded Australian equivalent of the UK BBC) has recently aired a former US ambassador to Apartheid Israel and the UN rejecting all present Palestine-Israel peace proposals as too hard, and his foreshadowing of a total expulsion of all the Occupied Palestinians from Palestine in coming years. No dissent
was offered by the ABC nor any Help Line referral for genocide-impacted people. What has the Zionist-subverted West come to?
The Hell of the Same: Capitalism Breaks Down and Homogenizes Life, Disconnects the Past, Present and Future
by John Stanton
Capitalism has little time for sub-surface thought, for depth. It is all about how fast one can consume, as Han indicates in his book. One is trained in the capitalist system and subsequently pushed into the ruthless routine of consumption and competition with all humans beings encountered through life’s assembly line.
Reflections On Women And Race During The Year Of The Pandemic
by Delia D Aguilar
I think it is safe to say that what the corona virus has done is spotlight the ways in
which it is women’s work that allows society to function. It is true that men face a higher mortality rate from the virus (Black women as well), but it is women performing the work of care who have been put at the very center.
Conversations in Shroud
by Prof Shah Alam Khan
There is crackling of fire. A fire, as orange as the fading evening.
“Body not handed to family. Protocols followed”
The weirdly dressed nurse noted in her blue long register and flipped the page.
Core Constituency of Dalit Vote is the New Political Determiner
by Dr Rehnamol Raveendran
https://countercurrents.org/2021/05/core-constituency-of-dalit-vote-is-the-new-political-determiner/
Dalits in West Bengal have opened the eyes of all political parties to the core constituency of Dalit vote as a political determiner in the Indian electoral game. It has now descended late on the political parties across the hue, that it was Dalits in Bengal
who ensured Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s entry into the Constituent Assembly, when Sardar Patel was famously quoted to have said that ‘not only the doors but also the windows of the Constituent assembly are closed for Ambedkar’. The nation should be indebted to Dalits in Bengal, led by Jogendernath Mandal, who ensured Babasaheb’s arrival to Constituent Assembly. Rest is history and we have in our hands the most celebrated rights-document, The Constitution of India.
Open Letter to the 74th World Health Assembly
Press Release
Civil Society from India seeks global support towards systemic changes in India and rest of the world committed to public health, social equity and justice in the times of COVID-19
CDRO Supports Farmers Call To Observe Black Day On 26th May
by Coordination of Democratic Rights Organisation (CDRO)
CDRO stands in solidarity with the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s call for observing 26th May 2021 as a Black Day. The second half of 2020 saw protests against the Farm Bills passed by the BJP-led government. It is now well-known that the central government had refused to pay due attention to the initial petitions raised by the farmers’ groups. The prime minister and other Union Ministers thought that no mass movement could be staged due to the prevailing pandemic situation.
Vimla and Sunderlal Bahuguna—Seven Decades of Together Serving Forests, Rivers and People
by Bharat Dogra
Sunderlal Bahuguna , the famous environmentalist of India who passed away on May 21 recently at the age of 94, is being widely remembered for his great contributions to protecting
forests and rivers as well contributions to human welfare at several levels. However it is well to also remember at this juncture that for close to seven decades Vimla, his wife, had contributed greatly to all these efforts , and in struggles and achievements, enormous difficulties and big accomplishments, they were always together.
Rivers Ravaged by Sand-Mining Mafias
by Bharat Dogra
Disturbing reports have been appearing from several parts of the country of rivers ravaged by sand-mining mafias to the extent that the very survival of some of the smaller rivers serious harmed in this way has been threatened. Much of this mining is clearly illegal and controlled by powerful local mafias who do not hesitate to confront and even attack even the few honest and courageous officials who dare to check them. Generally this situation does not arise as things are managed more conveniently by means of corruption
.
PM Cares or Hot Air?
by K P Sasi
A cartoon on India's COVID situation
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