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Farmer Unions to Restart Agitation on Pending Demands; Observe 9th August as “Corporates Quit India Day”
  • Farmers' Movement
  • July 15, 2024

SKM announced that farmer unions will restart agitation on pending demands of guaranteed MSP Law, loan waiver, crop insurance, farmers’ and farm workers pension, rolling back privatisation of power and other demands.   Groundxero | July 15, 2024   In a press release issued by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) on 11th July 2024 at Press Club […]

My Thoughts On the Attempted Trump Assassination
  • Commentary
  • July 14, 2024

Our only hope is to organize the overthrow of the corporate state that vomited up Trump.   By CHRIS HEDGES 14 July   The assassination of Trump would not remove the yearning of tens of millions of people, many conditioned by the Christian right, for a cult leader. Most of the leaders of the Christian […]

Maharashtra Public Security Bill aims to legitimise the criminalisation of dissenting citizens, human rights defenders and political opponents : PUCL
  • Human Right
  • July 14, 2024

The Maharashtra government on July 11 tabled in the state assembly the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill, 2024, to deal with the “increasing presence of Naxalism in urban centres”.  The Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Law and Judiciary of Maharashtra Devendra Fadnavis justified the Bill by saying that “menace of Naxalism is not only […]

দেবাশিস (বাচ্চু) আইচ-কে মনে রেখে…
  • News
  • July 14, 2024

গ্রাউন্ডজিরো-র অন্যতম প্রতিষ্ঠাতা সদস্য দেবাশিস (বাচ্চু) আইচ, গত ২১ জুন আমাদের ছেড়ে চলে গেছেন। গ্রাউন্ডজিরো ১৩ জুলাই কলকাতার থিওসফিকাল সোসাইটি হল-এ তাঁকে মনে রেখে এক স্মরণসভার আয়োজন করে। সেখানে দেবাশিস আইচের পরিবার, রাজনৈতিক সহকর্মী, সাংবাদিক বন্ধু, গণ আন্দোলনের সাথী সহ বহু মানুষ উপস্থিত হন। তাঁদের স্মৃতিচারণায় উঠে আসে দেবাশিস আইচের চেনা-অচেনা এক বর্ণময় জীবনের টুকরো ছবি। […]

The Old Evil
  • Palestine
  • July 12, 2024

I returned to occupied Palestine, from where I had reported for The New York Times, after two decades. I experienced once more the visceral evil of Israel’s occupation.   CHRIS HEDGES July 12, 2024   RAMALLAH, Occupied Palestine: It comes back in a rush, the stench of raw sewage, the groan of the diesel, sloth-like […]

IDF Soldier Confesses That in Gaza, ‘It’s Permissible to Shoot Everyone’
  • Palestine
  • July 8, 2024

Detailed accounts by former Israeli soldiers describe how they fired their weapons out of “boredom,” designated any Palestinians in sight as a threat, and routinely burned homes down.   By JULIA CONLEY Jul 08, 2024   Disputing the repeated claims of Israeli officials and their vehement supporters in the Biden administration, who have scoffed at concerns that the Israel Defense […]