On the long tail of US intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean. By Chuck Idelson Common Dreams If the Trump administration’s assaults on Venezuela and threats to Colombia and Mexico have a familiar stench, they should. For more than two centuries the United States government has acted as if it owned the Western Hemisphere, with the right of […]
NACEJ strongly condemns the abject failure of the Government in systemically addressing the air pollution crisis and the brazen, arbitrary detention of peacefully protesting citizens, organizing against this public health catastrophe. It said Delhi NCR pollution crisis needs firm policy shifts and institutional action against prime polluters, not citizens. Restore Fundamental Right to Breathe! […]
While the CRI report tells us what has happened in the past, it is not a precise predictor of what will happen in the future. But the report clearly demonstrates global emissions must be reduced immediately; otherwise, we face rising deaths and economic disaster worldwide. Groundxero | November 12, 2025 The recently released Climate Risk […]
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists. CHRIS HEDGES Nov 10, 2025 El Presidente Trump is cast in the mold of all tinpot Latin American despots who terrorize their populations, surround themselves with sycophants, goons and […]
Sudan is now home to the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Hundreds of thousands have been killed since 2023, 12 million people have been displaced and 21 million people face what the UN calls “high levels of acute food insecurity”. Yet, the international community has been largely silent. Philipp Kastner, The University of […]
The Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2025, represents a legislative attempt to undermine and dismantle an institution that has contributed immensely to India’s intellectual and scientific growth, erode ISI’s autonomy and its long-standing culture of academic freedom. Shyamoli Jana Groundxero | November 10, 2025 A ghettoised sweatshop is exactly what the name suggests: a workplace, a sweatshop, […]
The time has come for all US progressives to stop haranguing voters on what to vote against, and focus instead on what to vote for – a clear platform of food for all, housing for all, mass mobility for all, renewable energy for all, and health care for all. Dennis Redmond Groundxero | November 10, 2025 […]
The Adivasi and Dalit communities of Tijimali continue to actively resist Vedanta’s proposed bauxite mining project in the region. An update on the struggle. Groundxero | November 8, 2025 Since mid-2023, Adivasis and Dalits from Tijmali, Kuturumali, and Majhingmali—located in the Kashipur and Thuamul Rampur blocks of Rayagada and Kalahandi districts, respectively—have been actively resisting […]
The battle for a more affordable and egalitarian society is just beginning. Leaders like Zohran Mamdani need to gain even deeper traction with working-class voters, no matter how working class is defined and no matter their racial identity—if they want to win. By Les Leopold It truly is amazing that a Democratic Socialist […]
ক্রিস হেজেস সম্প্রতি দক্ষিণ অস্ট্রেলিয়ার অ্যাডিলেড ইউনিভার্সিটিতে এডওয়ার্ড সাঈদ স্মারক বক্তৃতা প্রদান করেছেন। তাঁর বক্তৃতার শিরোনাম ছিল “রেকুইয়েম ফর গাজা”। এটি ২০২৫ সালের ২০ অক্টোবর অস্ট্রেলিয়ার ন্যাশনাল প্রেস ক্লাব (NPC)-এ অনুষ্ঠিত হওয়ার কথা ছিল। কিন্তু এনপিসি বক্তৃতার সংক্ষিপ্তসার পর্যালোচনা করার পর, ইসরায়েলপন্থী লবির চাপে পড়ে অনুষ্ঠানটি বাতিল করে। গাজার গণহত্যা নিয়ে পশ্চিমা গণমাধ্যমের ভূমিকার […]
SKM alleges government behaving like a real estate agent; profited massively from reselling land to corporates acquired from farmers at throwaway prices. Farmers to hold a Mahapanchayat at Sohna on November 6 over ‘Haryana Model of Land Trade’. Groundxero | Nov 5, 2025 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has called for a massive Mahapanchayat on […]
The Supreme Court’s judgment may serve as a precedent for ensuring that social-welfare rights are not held hostage to political disputes. Groundxero | Nov 4, 2025 After four long years of waiting, West Bengal’s rural workers have won a battle fought not only in the courts but also in the fields and streets. On October […]
Rights groups demand arrests and independent probe; call attack a deliberate attempt to silence voices against illegal mining in Tamil Nadu Groundxero | Nov 3, 2025 The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) — both its national and Tamil Nadu–Puducherry units — and the Human Rights Forum (HRF) have strongly condemned the violent assault on […]
Academics from leading universities call Dr. Snehashish Bhattacharya’s termination “unjust and punitive”; warn of a growing crisis of academic freedom at SAU, New Delhi Groundxero | Nov 3, 2025 More than 300 scholars from leading universities and research institutions worldwide have appealed to the Secretary-General of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to […]
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside. CHRIS HEDGES NOV 03, 2025 The only hope to save ourselves from Trump’s authoritarianism is mass movements. We must build […]
Dalit women sanitation workers at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak (Haryana), allege heinous violation of dignity and privacy, casteist and gender-based harassment by supervisors. Rights groups, including DASAM, condemns the incident; say the case exposes systemic abuse in India’s contractual sanitation labour sector; demands criminal prosecution, court-monitored probe, and structural reforms. Groundxero | Nov 3, 2025 […]
Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) Demands Loan Waiver, Scraping of PMFBY, Judicial Probe into Floods and Landslides; to Submit Memorandums to District Collectors on November 4. Groundxero | Nov. 1, 2025 The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has accused both the Union and state governments of “administrative failure and criminal recklessness” in responding to widespread devastating floods […]
Plestia Alaqad had just graduated when Israel launched its large-scale assault on Gaza on October 7, 2023. Within days, her city and her home were reduced to rubble. Amid bombings, displacement, and the relentless search for refuge, she continued to write. What she produced is far more than a chronicle of endurance under conditions of […]
মূলত গ্রামাঞ্চলে হওয়া এই সমীক্ষার নিরিখে যে বিষয়টি সামনে উঠে আসে তা হল গ্রামীণ পারিবারিক দারিদ্র্যের বোঝা এসে পড়ছে মহিলাদের উপর এবং তারই ফলস্বরূপ বাড়ছে ঋণগ্রস্ততা। এই দারিদ্র্যকে পুঁজি করেই চলছে ‘ক্ষুদ্র ঋণ সংস্থার লুট’। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী Groundxero | Oct 31, 2025 সারা দেশের ২১টি রাজ্য, ১০০টি গ্রাম, সর্বমোট ৯০০০ মহিলাদের মধ্যে দীর্ঘ সময় ধরে […]
The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism. Chris Hedges Oct 30, 2025 Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by […]
Behind Gurugram’s latest demolition drive lies a decade-old nexus of corruption, caste, and state neglect. By MOULI SHARMA Groundxero | Oct 31, 2025 On 8th October 2025, in Gurugram’s (Haryana) Sector 12, on Old Delhi Road, homes were razed down after residents were forcibly dragged out by a massive police force, in yet another case […]
তালিবান প্রশাসনের মন্ত্রীর সাংবাদিক সম্মেলনে থাকার অনুমতি না পাওয়া ন্যক্কারজনক, কিন্তু তার থেকেও বোধহয় ন্যক্কারজনক দেশের ভেতরে আগ্রাসী পৌরুষ, পিতৃতন্ত্র, লিঙ্গভিত্তিক বৈষম্য এবং হিন্দুত্ববাদী জাতীয়তাবাদে মহিলা সাংবাদিক, সঞ্চালক সকলেই যেভাবে নিজেদের প্রতিদিন উজ্জীবিত করে চলেছেন তা থেকে চোখ ঘুরিয়ে থাকা। সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী সম্প্রতি ভারতের মহিলা সাংবাদিকদের সঙ্গে এক বৈষম্যমূলক ঘটনার পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে খুব বিস্তারিতভাবে না […]
In part V & VI of this reportage, Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury shares his experience while visiting communal violence affected areas in Bhatpara in North 24-Pargana district of West Bengal, and the exploitative conditions of women in the Rohingya refugee camps in Cox Bazar in Bangladesh. By Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury Groundxero | Oct 26, 2025 […]
Environmentalists warn of irreversible damage to Western Ghats and Lion-Tailed Macaque habitat; urge Union and Karnataka governments to scrap the project. Groundxero | October 24, 2025 A coalition of environmental groups, scientists, and local communities has sounded a stark warning over Karnataka’s proposed 2000 MW Sharavathy Pumped Storage Project (PSP), calling it an ecological […]
The recent US airstrikes in the Caribbean and military threats against Venezuela are a continuation of decades (or even centuries) of US policy on the region, not a departure from it. By Manolo De Los Santos Over the last several weeks, Washington has escalated threats and hostilities against Venezuela, and US President Donald Trump openly […]
Addressing the root of economic systems that oppress Americans is exactly what the Democratic Party leadership, dependent on big corporate donors, has rigorously refused to do. If they continue this refusal, things will only get worse. By Norman Solomon TomDispatch The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about […]
In this part III & IV of the reportage; Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury shares his experience while visiting communal violence affected areas in Basirhat and Asansol in West Bengal. By Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury Groundxero | Oct 20, 2025 III. It was in the year 2017. Two months after the communal riots in Basirhat6, we […]
The Palestinians have resisted colonisation for 75 years, and have now fought back another 2 years of outright genocide. With their bodies, they have managed to stall one of the world’s most powerful military machines; rally support from around the world; and weaken imperialism itself in the process. Their struggle is far from over. […]
HRF is calling on both the State and Union governments to immediately halt all land acquisition and clearance processes related to the project. They demand full public disclosure of all documents including MOUs, power and water allocation agreements, compensation frameworks and environmental impact reports. Groundxero | October 18, 2025 The Human Rights Forum (HRF) has […]
SKM calls the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, an assault on federalism and people’s right to affordable power, and announced plans to coordinate with electricity workers’ unions to resist what it termed as “corporate capture of the power sector.” New Delhi | October 18, 2025 Groundxero The Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) has sharply condemned […]
Maleka from an Afghan refugee camp in Delhi, and Anwara, Murshida, Tamanna, Ramaiya, Saba, Arifa in a riot victims shelter camp in Uttar Pradesh — each came from a different background. Their perspectives are different, but they face the same reality of insecurity and vulnerability. By Subha Protim Roy Chowdhury Groundxero | Oct 17, 2025 I. […]
While Palestinian blood flows through the streets of Rafah and Khan Yunis, Arab leaders meet in luxurious summits to issue vague statements of “concern” and empty “indignation”. No economic sanctions against “Israel”, no oil embargo, no diplomatic rupture. By Sayid Marcos Tenorio Groundxero | Oct 17, 2025 There is a tragic irony in the Palestinian genocide: […]
Has the defeat of the Naxal movement translated into victory for Indian farmers? For workers? For Adivasi women? No. This is a victory for capitalists; it is a victory for those who impoverish India by plundering its water, forests, and land. By Himanshu Kumar Groundxero | Oct 17, 2025 Today, in the pink cold of […]
A mathematician’s concerns on the assault on education, reason, and freedom in India By Oorna Groundxero | Oct 16, 2025 In The 14 Characteristics of Fascism, political scientist Lawrence Britt observed that “fascist nations tend to promote and to exalt hostility to higher education and academia.” History proves him right. In the 20th century, […]
A report of the TISS students’ meeting to commemorate Prof GN Saibaba Oct 15, 2025 by freespeechcollective The price of political engagement and learning today* Recording the sequence of events and observations on the current events unfolding in TISS, Mumbai, from students’ perspective What is the price of political engagement and learning […]
The young Kerala victim’s posthumous disclosure must become a catalyst for change—not another tragedy we mourn and forget. Tinku Khanna Groundxero | Oct 15, 2025 The recent death by suicide of a 26-year-old IT professional from Kerala, who alleged in a scheduled Instagram post that he was sexually abused as a child by members of […]
Prof. G.N. Saibaba memorial lecture on the occasion of his death anniversary on 12th October 2025 was held at HKS Surjeet Bhawan in New Delhi. Groundxero | Oct 13, 2025 G.N. Saibaba (1967 – 12 October 2024) was an Indian scholar, writer and human rights activist from Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh. He constantly raised his voice for the […]
There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war. CHRIS HEDGES OCT 11, 2025 There is no shortage of failed peace plans in occupied Palestine, all of them incorporating detailed phases and timelines, going back to the presidency of Jimmy Carter. They end the same way. Israel gets what […]
বিপর্যয় এলে কী হবে সেই আলোচনার চাইতে অনেক বেশি জরুরি বিপর্যয় আটকানো। যে কারণে বিপর্যয় ঘটতে পারে, ঘটছে, তার প্রতিকার। তিথি রায় Groundxero | Oct 09, 2025 কাশ্মীর, হিমাচল, উত্তরাখান্ড, উত্তরবঙ্গ – গোটা হিমালয় জুড়ে বিধ্বংসী বন্যা ও ধস নামার ঘটনা ঘটে চলেছে পালা করে। ধর্মীয় বিশ্বাসে, হিমালয়ে বসবাস ঈশ্বরের। এ জমানায়, পুঁজি-বাজার-মুনাফাকেই আমরা ব্রহ্মা-বিষ্ণু-মহেশ্বরের মত […]
All this killing, maiming, starving, orphaning, and forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian minors has wrought what one mother there called the “complete psychological destruction” of Gaza’s children. A December 2024 study found that nearly all children in Gaza believed their deaths were imminent—and nearly half of them wanted to die. By BRET WILKINS Oct 08, […]