Worker unions questioned the legitimacy of a public hearing conducted outside the tea garden area, and in which the project affected workers were not heard. They also demanded cancellation of the EIA report done in violation of the Supreme Court’s order in the matter. Groundxero | June 23, 2025 Assam Chief Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday […]
Hindu nationalist groups frame Israel’s war on Palestinians as a parallel to India’s struggle against “Islamic terrorism.” Their narrative posit Israel as a civilisational ally, a “natural friend” in a global battle against a common religious adversary—further cementing the ideological bridge between Zionism and Hindutva in the popular imagination. By Arkadeep Goswami On […]
চলতি বছর থেকে গ্রাউন্ডজিরো-র উদ্যোগে ও দেবাশিস আইচ-এর পরিবার ও বন্ধুবর্গের সমর্থন-সহযোগিতায় শুরু হল এই বার্ষিক স্মারক আলোচনা সভা। প্রথম বছরের আলোচনার বিষয় ছিল – “সংখ্যালঘু সম্প্রদায়ের উপর ক্রমবর্ধমান ঘৃণা ও হিংসা: মূলস্রোতের গণমাধ্যমের ভূমিকা”। Groundxero | June 22, 2025 ২১ জুন ২০২৫ কলকাতার থিওসফিকাল সোসাইটি হলে অনুষ্ঠিত হল প্রথম দেবাশিস আইচ স্মারক আলোচনা সভা। […]
Where does the Western obsession with Iran come from? The “Ayatollah regime” is said to threaten world peace. U.S. intelligence agencies and the military see things differently. By David Goessmann Jun 20, 2025 At the G7 summit in Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, Canada, and the U.S. adopted a joint resolution on Israel’s attack on […]
The lies told to ignite the war with Iraq have been resurrected to ignite a war with Iran. The assessments of intelligence agencies and international bodies are dismissed, replaced by hallucinations. CHRIS HEDGES JUN 19, 2025 There are few differences between the lies told to ignite the war with Iraq and the lies […]
যোগ্য শিক্ষক-শিক্ষিকা অধিকার মঞ্চে যে শিক্ষকেরা আমরণ অনশনে শামিল হয়েছেন, তাতে ১৭ জুন যোগ দিয়েছেন দৃষ্টি-প্রতিবন্ধী শিক্ষক রবীন্দ্রনাথ সাহা। দৃষ্টি-প্রতিবন্ধী শিক্ষকদের অধিকারের দাবি নিয়ে পথে নামল পশ্চিমবঙ্গের ব্লাইন্ড পার্সন্স অ্যাসোসিয়েশন। Groundxero | June 18, 2025 ২০১৬ সালের এসএসসি প্যানেল বাতিল করেছে সুপ্রিম কোর্ট দুর্নীতির কারণে। চাকরি হারিয়েছেন পশ্চিমবঙ্গের ২৬ হাজার শিক্ষক ও অশিক্ষক কর্মী। যোগ্য শিক্ষক-শিক্ষিকা […]
“It was a massacre,” said one witness, adding that Israeli troops continued firing on people as they fled. Over the past 20 months, the IDF has repeatedly slaughtered Palestinians trying to access food assistance, including at hubs recently set up by the U.S.- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) following an Israeli blockade on aid. By Jessica Corbett Jun 17, 2025 […]
Langston Hughes was one of the greatest and most progressive of all US artists, almost completely erased from the literary canon today. His classic poem “Harlem” predicted, decades before the reality, that Harlem’s neocolonial immiseration was the model for what the plutocrats were going to do to the entire US middle class. By Dionysius This […]
Israel’s attack on Iran was completely unprovoked and constitutes an act of calculated aggression. As such, Iran has every right to defend itself. By C.J. Polychroniou | Alexandra Boutri Jun 15, 2025 Common Dreams Scores of countries across the world have issued a sharp condemnation of Israel’s attacks on Iran. So what? There have also been […]
Donald Trump, like Joe Biden before him, was unable—or unwilling—to restrain Israel from genocide, lawlessness, and slaughter. By Richard Eskow Jun 15, 2025 Common Dreams For a while, at least, Donald Trump talked a good game about diplomacy, including negotiations with Iran and Israel. But Israel is America’s id. We can’t restrain Israel because Israel is the […]
Israel and its neoconservative allies in the United States have long attempted to start a war with Iran, a war that neither Israel nor the U.S. can win and will engender ferocious blowback. CHRIS HEDGES 13 June The neoconservatives who orchestrated the disastrous wars with Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya — and who […]
গণহত্যা প্রায় সম্পূর্ণ। যখন এটি শেষ হবে তখন এটি কেবল ফিলিস্তিনিদের ধ্বংস করবে না, বরং পশ্চিমা সভ্যতার নৈতিক দেউলিয়াত্বও প্রকাশ করবে। ক্রিস হেজেস ৯ জুন, ২০২৫ এই তবে শেষ। গণহত্যার রক্তাক্ত অধ্যায়ের সমাপ্তি। খুব শীঘ্রই সব মিটে যাবে। সপ্তাহখানেকের মধ্যেই, বড়জোর, দু’সপ্তাহ। বিশ লক্ষ মানুষ আশ্রয় নিয়েছে ধ্বংসস্তূপের মধ্যে বা খোলা আকাশের নীচে। […]
Five Left parties wrote a joint letter to the Prime Minister arguing him for an immediate halt to the extra-judicial killings of Maoists in the name of Operation Kagar. Groundxero | June 09, 2025 The General Secretaries of five Left parties — Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India (ML)-Liberation, […]
The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization. CHRIS HEDGES JUN 9 This is the end. The final blood-soaked chapter of the genocide. It will be over soon. Weeks. At most. Two million people are […]
Musk’s support for Trump was both ideological and pragmatic. From tax cuts to immigration restrictions to opposing DEI, there were clearly many ideological commonalities between Musk and Trump. Why has the much-hyped “bromance” between Musk and Trump suddenly ended? By Henry Maher, University of Sydney A no-holds-barred and very public blow-up between the […]
CDRO has demanded the arrested Maoists to be produced in the court immediately, and a judicial enquiry must be carried out to investigate these alleged encounters. Groundxero | June 08, 2025 The human right and civil liberty groups across the country has strongly condemned the extrajudicial killing of CPI (Maoist) leaders and cadres, many of whom […]
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality. CHRIS HEDGES Jun 6 The last days of dying empires are dominated by idiots. The Roman, Mayan, French, Habsburg, Ottoman, Romanoff, Iranian and Soviet dynasties crumbled under the […]
Ma Mati Mali Surakhya Mancha said the shocking measure is only because of two-year long struggle of the local communities to protect the land and the environment from the bauxite mining plans of Vedanta and its contract company Maitri Infrastructure. Groundxero | 6 June, 2025 Renowned social activist and environmentalist Medha Patkar was on […]
পাঞ্জাবের বেচিরাগের ঘটনা ভূমি অধিকারের জন্য দলিতদের নিরন্তর সংগ্রামের এক তীব্র প্রতিচ্ছবি। দেবাশিস মিথিয়া Groundxero | June 06, 2025 ২০২৫ সালের ২০শে মে, দলিতদের বঞ্চনার এক মর্মান্তিক অধ্যায় নতুন করে রচিত হলো। ওই দিন পাঞ্জাবের সাঙ্গরুর জেলার ‘বীর এশওয়ান’ (বেচিরাগ) গ্রামে ‘জমিন প্রাপ্তি সংঘর্ষ কমিটি’ বা ‘জেডপিএসসি’, একটি জমি দখল কর্মসূচির ডাক দেয়। মূল দাবি ছিল সরকারের […]
Gender conflict has continued, subtly but powerfully, to shape voter behaviour, campaign strategies and the national debate about who is to blame for the lack of opportunities in South Korea for young men. Ming Gao, Lund University and Joanna Elfving-Hwang, Curtin University Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung has won South Korea’s snap presidential election […]
The shift to green energy in India is taking place with a focus on mega projects that are land intensive and unsustainable. These projects are being planned in environmentally fragile and scheduled areas, in disregard of the constitutional protections and the environmental impact. Meanwhile, by categorising them as clean energy, projects like Solar Parks are […]
Simultaneous struggles are ongoing in assertion of adivasi rights, to protect the forests and natural resources from destruction in Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Jharkhand and other parts of the country. One such struggle is the decade-long battle to protect Central India’s pristine, dense, biodiversity-rich forests, the Hasdeo Aranya, popularly known as the ‘Lungs of Chhattisgarh.’ By […]
The return of Left internationalism inspired by the vision of socialism needs a dramatic turnaround on the global ideological and political landscape. Alexandra Boutri, C.J. Polychroniou June 03, 2025 Has neoliberal globalization run its course? Should the Left be on the side of tariffs or protectionism? Can Left internationalism be revived? Political scientist, […]
In a significant development, over 1000 academics from Israeli universities have issued an open letter protesting the “war crimes and even crimes against humanity” committed by the Israeli military in Gaza. Groundxero | June 03, 2025 On last Wednesday, 1,200 academics and administrators from Israeli universities issued an open letter protesting the “war crimes and even crimes […]
The Arab monarchs’ hobnobbing with the backers of genocide in Gaza represents not only a cruel blow to the Palestinian people but also a profound insult to the ordinary citizens of the Arab. By Sushovan Dhar Groundxero | June 03, 2025 As Israel’s war on Palestine continues to inflict suffering on Gaza, Arab monarchies busied themselves […]