Phase One of Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza has ended. Phase Two has begun. It will result in even higher levels of death and destruction. By CHRIS HEDGES Dec 2, 2023 The skies over Gaza are filled — after a seven-day truce — with projectiles of death. Warplanes. Attack helicopters. Drones. Artillery […]
The United Auto Workers on Friday became the largest U.S. union to endorse a cease-fire in Gaza as Israel resumed its bombardment of the Palestinian territory following a weeklong pause. By Groundxero Dec 02, 2023 The UAW, the largest union in US have called for a ceasefire. It represents 400,000 workers in the US and more […]
SKM asserts that the significant success of the recent nation-wide protest-demonstration before all Raj Bhawans jointly by SKM & Trade Unions has made Modi Govt. nervous; hence the backlash by illegal uses of Investigative Agencies & Delhi Police against farmer leaders. It said that any effort to paint the Farmers’ Struggle as anti-national or foreign-funded or […]
By Groundxero Dec 02, 2023 The University Grants Commission (UGC) has written to colleges and universities across the country to set up selfie points with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s image in the background to ‘Foster Pride’. In a letter sent to colleges and universities, the UGC has suggested that campus authorities should encourage students […]
Workers of the Indian Medicines Pharmaceutical Corporation Ltd (IMPCL) are strongly opposing the Union Government’s move to sell its stake in the profit making mini-ratna PSU. By Groundxero Dec 02, 2023 The Government of India intends to disinvest its entire stake in Indian Medicines Pharmaceutical Corporation Ltd (IMPCL) through strategic disinvestment with transfer of […]
If anything, Kissinger was but a faithful representative of the criminal U.S. elites whom he served all his life—and who guaranteed him a long life of fame, wealth, and luxury. By JOSEPH MASSAD Nov 30, 2023 Nothing notable distinguished the birth of Heinz Alfred Kissinger on 27 May 1923 to a German Jewish […]
Israel resumed its assault on the Gaza Strip Friday morning just minutes after the pause with Hamas officially expired, ending a fragile seven-day truce that created conditions for the release of hundreds of Israeli and Palestinian captives and allowed additional—but still inadequate—humanitarian aid to enter the besieged territory. By Groundxero Dec 01, 2023 […]
“Only a negotiated cease-fire can pave the way to addressing the current humanitarian crisis, the release of all hostages, and a long-term solution to this conflict,” said one campaigner. JESSICA CORBETT Nov 29, 2023 Almost a million Americans signed petitions from half a dozen civil society organizations demanding that U.S. President Joe Biden […]
On the International Day in Solidarity with the Palestinian People, on November 29, people across the world expressed their solidarity demanding immediate complete cease-fire in Gaza and a fully liberated Palestine. November 30, 2023 by Groundxero Every year, November 29 marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. It’s a day to remember that […]
৪১ জন শ্রমিকের বাঁচার ইচ্ছাকে দেশসুদ্ধ সবাই কুর্নিশ করছেন। মরে গেলেও ভুলেই যেত, বেঁচে গেছেন বলে তাও পরের শিরোনাম তৈরির আগে পর্যন্ত মনে রাখবে। লিখেছেন সুদর্শনা চক্রবর্তী। আমরা আসলে একটা স্পেকটাকেল চাই। সেটা যতক্ষণ না তৈরি হচ্ছে ততক্ষণ আমোদ হতে পারে না। জীবন, মৃত্যু, ভয়, ট্রমা, অপেক্ষা – এই শব্দগুলো যতক্ষণ না সেই স্পেকটাকেল-এর […]
By Philip Fearnside, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) and Rosimeire Araújo Silva, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) The Amazon is facing an unprecedented drought that is projected to continue affecting the region at least until mid-2024. The lowest water levels in 121 years of river-level records have been recorded in the city of Manaus. […]
“This day of action grows every year because the movement to hold Amazon accountable keeps getting bigger and stronger,” said the head of UNI Global Union. By JAKE JOHNSON Nov 24, 2023 Amazon workers and allies in dozens of countries around the world took to the streets Friday to protest the e-commerce behemoth’s […]
Groundxero : November 23, 2023 #SijimaliMatters Update #5 The past three and a half months have been both tumultuous and decisive in shaping the antimining resistance of Adivasis and Dalits in South Odisha. As we bring to you our fifth update, twenty three activists arrested since mid-August have stepped out of the confines […]
Israel’s War on Hospitals Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza’s hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear – Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die. by CHRIS HEDGES NOV 20, 2023 Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they […]
শামিকে রোজ পরীক্ষা দিতে হবে। বিশ্বকাপ ফাইনালে আবার! সোনার কাপ হাতে উঠলেও তার পরের টুর্নামেন্টে। নামের বোঝা বিশাল দায়। এই দায়ে দোষী এক বিশেষ ধর্মের মানুষ, চেষ্টা করলেও মেজরিটির মেজরের বাইরে তারা চিরকাল। মোদি যুগে এবার জুতসই শব্দ আছে – দেশদ্রোহী। আসলে শুনতে শুনতে এক সময় সয়ে যায় মশাই। যত ইচ্ছে বলুন! লিখলেন মৌমিতা আলম। […]
Anne Boyer, a poet and essayist who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020, quit as poetry editor of The New York Times Magazine and released a resignation letter. She denounced “the Israeli state’s U.S.-backed war against the people of Gaza” — accurately calling it “an ongoing war against the people of Palestine, people who have resisted through […]
Israel is Shutting Down its Human Laboratory in Gaza Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries. By CHRIS HEDGES NOV 17, 2023 CAIRO, Egypt: The Palestinians are human laboratory rats to the Israeli military, intelligence services and arms and technology industries. Israel’s […]
Her story in photos of two public hearings for environment clearance to Vedanta’s bauxite mining proposal in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts, Odisha By Rajaraman, Debabrata and Evanjelina. Women of Banteji village, in the foothills of Tijmali, collectively resolve to oppose bauxite mining on the night before the public hearing of 16th October […]
Groundxero | 13th November, 2023 In the context of the Assembly Elections to five states, Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) – a platform of farmer unions which spearheaded the historic struggle against the three Farm Laws in 2020-21 – reiterated its stand on elections: It will not contest elections or extend support to any candidate […]
“In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians,” demonstrators chanted at Saturday’s march, described as one of the largest political protests in U.K. history. By JAKE JOHNSON Nov 11, 2023 Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of London on Saturday to demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza as […]
The Horror, The Horror Israel’s genocidal attacks, which are killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza. By Chris Hedges Nov 11 DOHA, Qatar: I am in the studio of Al Jazeera’s Arabic service watching a live feed from Gaza City. The […]
Letter to the Children of Gaza By Chris Hedges Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of […]
By Press Release 9 November, 2023 STAND IN SOLIDARITY FOR FREE PALESTINE! OPPOSE ZIONIST AGGRESSION & GENOCIDAL WAR! UPHOLD THE RIGHT TO RESISTANCE OF THE PALESTINIANS! A genocide is unfolding in Gaza, and it is hardly a surprise that the racist Zionist state of Israel executes the first genocide of the twenty […]
A document leaked in recent days has fully confirmed that the Zionist right is seizing the opportunity of Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” to try to implement its old dream of displacing most of the Palestinian population from the territories occupied in 1967, so as to complete the 1948 Nakba and achieve their “Greater Israel” project. […]
Groundxero | November 7, 2023 Students occupied Naples Orientale University on Monday morning to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to cooperation between their university and all Israeli political, economic and military institutions, reported Peoples Dispatch. The students in Italy are protesting Israeli genocide in Gaza and attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West […]
Groundxero | November 7, 2023 On Monday, 6 November, 2023, the Organization of Port Dockers in Barcelona (OEPB), the largest union of dock workers in the city, called for a cease-fire to the war in Gaza and announced that they will refuse to handle the shipment of any weapons, citing humanitarian concerns. “Workers have committed […]
Why did Israel kill my son? By Ahmed Abu Artema I write these words from my hospital bed. I am beginning to have some energy to hold my phone and use my fingers after 10 days here. I write in grief. I woke up in my family house in Rafah, in the […]
দেখতে দেখতে তিস্তা মহাবিপর্যয়ের এক মাস পার হল। সিকিম ও পশ্চিমবঙ্গে এই প্রচণ্ড ধ্বংসলীলার সার্বিক ক্ষয়ক্ষতির হিসেব করে উঠতে পারেনি দুই রাজ্যের সরকার। এখনও ভিড় ত্রাণশিবিরে, পথঘাট থেকে, ঘরবাড়ি, ভগ্ন, বিপর্যস্ত বাঁধ থেকে মাটি-বালি-পাথরের স্তুপ সরানোর কাজ চলছে। প্রায় এক মাসের মাথায় বেড়ানোর উদ্দেশ্যে কালিম্পং গিয়েছিলেন সন্দীপ দাস। তাঁর কলমে হ্রদভাঙা বন্যায় অন্যতম বিপর্যস্ত এ […]
Gaza bombing adds to the generations of Palestinians displaced from their homes BY Michael Vicente Perez An estimated 1.4 million Palestinians have been displaced from their homes since the Israeli military began bombing the Gaza Strip on Oct. 8, 2023, in retaliation for a surprise attack by Hamas militants. Many of these Palestinians have […]
A student’s perspective on the recent controversy surrounding Prof. Achin Vanaik’s teach-in session on Palestine at O.P. Jindal Global University and the consequent dissemination of misinformation and targeting of faculty members by the right wing ecosystem from within and outside the university. By Samyuktha Kannan Nov 04, 2023 On the 1st of November, some faculty members at […]
By Groundxero Nov 04, 2023 The World Health Organization, UN Relief and Works Agency for the Palestine Refugees in the Near East, the UN Populations Fund and Unicef have put out a joint statement on the plight women and newborns in Gaza are facing amid Israel’s deadly siege. The UN agencies said that bombardments, […]
UN Experts Warn of ‘Grave Risk of Genocide’ in Gaza “Time is running out to prevent genocide and humanitarian catastrophe,” the special rapporteurs stressed—while other experts said such conditions already exist in the pulverized Palestinian enclave. By Brett Wilkins Nov 02, 2023 As the death toll from over three weeks of relentless Israeli bombardment […]
Groundxero | November 2, 2023 Belgium transport workers’ unions on last Tuesday have called their worker-members to refuse handling of weapon shipments destined for Israel. The unions said in a statement that “a genocide” was underway in Palestine, and they have urged ground handling workers in airports in Belgium not to handle deliveries of […]
Groundxero | 1st November, 2023 Vedanta Limited’s proposed bauxite mining project at Sijimali in Odisha’s Rayagada district is being intensely opposed by local Adivasi and Dalit villagers who have voiced concerns over their eviction and possible adverse impact of the mining project on their livelihoods and local ecology. On March 1 of this […]
Groundxero | 31st October, 2023 On 30th October, Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity (BKMS) met district officials (ADM-ZP) and political party leaders of BJP and TMC in Purulia district to draw attention to the increasing rural distress in one of the poorest districts in West Bengal due to collapse of NREGA. PBKMS also drew […]
Groundxero | 31st October, 2023 A huge public meeting was held on 29th October at Talaampadar of Thuamal Rampur Block in Kalahandi district of Odisha. This public meeting was attended by over 2000 people. The objective of the meeting was to strengthen the bonds across the communities and reiterate their resolve to unitedly continue […]
“We will do everything in our power to demand an end to U.S. support for genocide and apartheid,” said Jewish Voice for Peace. By Brett Wilkins As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proclaims in genocidal undertones his army’s “holy mission” to invade Gaza, Jewish American peace activists are ramping up their nationwide effort to bring […]
Groundxero | 30 October, 2023 The head of the UN’s children agency (Unicef), while addressing the UN’s security council on Monday, said: More than 420 children are being killed or injured in Gaza each day – a number which should shake each of us to our core. UN security council meet on Monday following […]
হাংরি বা উত্তর-হাংরি সমসাময়িক সাহিত্যের মূল বয়ান যদি হয় বিবিক্তা, এই ধারার লেখালেখির সাথে আমার সম্পর্কও তো আসলে বিবিক্তারই। লিঙ্গগত প্রশ্নে, শ্রেণীগত প্রশ্নে, মতাদর্শের প্রশ্নে। এই লেখা তাই আমার সেইসব বিবিক্তাবোধ ও প্রশ্নেরই একটি ধারাবিবরণী — নন্দিনী ধর। লেখাটি প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয়েছিল ২০১৯-এ আয়নানগর পত্রিকায়। কয়েক সপ্তাহ আগে, ইংরাজি অনলাইন পত্রিকা ‘‘কাফে ডিসেনসাস’’-এ হাংরি আন্দোলন নিয়ে […]
Hamas upholding Islam does not undermine its struggle but is a natural part of the overall historical development of Palestinian people and anti-colonial struggle they wage. Under the veil of religion, liberation struggle is waged in societies where democracy has not fully prevailed, writes Harsh Thakor. The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the […]