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, […]
Mike Johnson said at the event that the Judea and Samaria mountains are the legal property of the Jewish people. He criticizes Israel’s “friends” who call for the recognition of a Palestinian state. By Brett Wilkins Aug 04, 2025 The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Mike Johnson on Monday led a high-level […]
PUCL strongly condemned turning of a blind-eye by the Narendra Modi government to the inhuman and degrading treatment of Indians deportees from USA, which is violative of the Constitution’s promise of equality and dignity. Groundxero | Feb 23, 2025 People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), in a press statement, expressed shock at both the Indian […]
First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims. By Chris Hedges Feb 15, 2025 Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you […]
We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression. By Chris Hedges The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of Congress, the White House and the courts, are cannibalizing the machinery of state. […]
The elections, especially in Bastar and Kanker constituencies in Chhattisgarh, will be watched intently. The restive region has always grabbed attention for the untold violence and displacement of local Adivasi residents as the State has fought armed insurgency for over three decades. Malini Subramaniam Bastar, Chhattisgarh|April 18, 2024 The 18th Lok Sabha election in […]
On April 19, Modi will begin his quest to win a third consecutive term in charge of the world’s most populous country. For as long as he has been in power, legal anthropologist Sandhya Fuchs, who grew up in rural India, has been researching human rights and hate crime law in India. She has got […]
“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 […]
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 […]
A Statement on the COVID -19 pandemic issued by Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) and All India People’s Science Network (AIPSN) calls the government to ACT NOW- to save lives, to strengthen public health services and to safeguard livelihoods. Statement on the COVID -19 pandemic From 30 January 2020, when the first case of COVID-19 […]
In the history of industrial pollution in India, both Bhopal and Thoothukudi must be seen as watershed moments, either in terms of the disasters themselves, or in terms of the resistances that followed. In most other such cases, the disaster is felt as a slow, everyday process – as something chronic. And the resistance is […]
In a roundtable discussion organised by Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee on 5th May, several speakers raised the matter of suffering of innocent Muslim youth, alongside the impunity of a self-confessed Hindu terrorist, in the context of the arrests on fake charges that followed the blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad. GroundXero: Dr. Ibrahim Junaid was a […]