Dear Friend,
Is the world spiralling out of control? 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles rained down on the Syrian air base at Shayrat, near the city of Homs on Thursday morning. Prof. Francis Boyle calls it "American Unlimited Imperialism". Farooque Chowdhury from Dhaka calls it "Empire’s Aggression On Syria". The empire's war machine is on the rol[. Who'll stop it? If not us who will? We need huge mobilisation. Let's start from here. Peace is the only option.
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American Unlimited Imperialism:Syria
by Professor Francis A Boyle
It is the Unlimited Imperialists along the lines of Alexander, Rome, Napoleon and Hitler who are now in charge of conducting American foreign policy. The factual circumstances surrounding the outbreaks of both the First World War and the Second World War currently hover like twin Swords of Damocles over the heads of all humanity.
Empire’s Aggression On Syria
by Farooque Chowdhury
With the pounding of 59 Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles on Shayrat airbase in Syria the Empire has widened its aggression in the strategically crucial country. The sounds of destruction announce imperialism’s and aggression, interference and intervention. This is the sound of “peace” imperialism likes to impose on peoples of other countries.
US Launches Cruise Missile Attack Against Syrian Government
by James Cogan
Between 8 and 9 p.m., US Eastern Time Thursday, two US warships in the Mediterranean fired a barrage of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base at Shayrat, near the city of Homs. The attack is the first direct assault by the United States on the Russian- and Iranian-backed government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and has plunged the world into days of uncertainty as to the consequences. Highlighting the utter recklessness and criminality of the American action, Russian forces were at the base.
From Syria To Monsanto: A Moribund System Of Deceit And Destruction
by Colin Todhunter
Today, as the dominant global power, the US roles out its brand of unfettered capitalism across the world. US citizens constitute just five percent of the world’s population but consume 24 percent of global energy. Consider the consequences of a US-style model of ‘development’ if it were to be aspired to and copied throughout the world (which it is in places like India and China). The model is unsustainable and based on the premise of endless GDP growth and endless supplies of (finite) fossil fuels to fuel it.
US Public Directed To Condemn Chemical Attacks And Election Interference – Unless Carried Out by US or Collaborators
by Robert J Barsocchini
Dr. Noam Chomsky, a scholar who taught classes on US foreign policy at MIT and whom International Business Times notes is “one of the world’s most eminent academics and political commentators”, gave a more than one hour-long interview this week to Democracy Now. In it, he points out that while the US government and oligarchy (see below) encourages US citizens to be outraged over alleged Russian interference in the US election, US citizens are not supposed to react similarly (or grant that citizens in other countries have a right to react similarly) when the US government carries out more extreme acts against other countries, including Russia, where the US interfered heavily, and to mass, deadly effect (contributing to millions of years life lost), in the 1990s.
Eyes On Eternity Versus Eyes On The Prize: Dedicated To Gil Scott-Heron
by Richard Oxman
Jon Else has come out recently with a wonderful memoir titled, True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, the Landmark Television Series that Reframed the Civil Rights Movement. It’s a decent read, for sure, but in concluding this article I’m obliged to underscore that we’re all documenting ourselves to death in lieu of doing what Dr. Martin Luther King advocated a year before his assassination.
Pope Francis Meets 4 Imams To Open A Christian-Muslim Dialogue
by Abdus Sattar Ghazali
Pope Francis Wednesday (April 5) held a private audience with a delegation of four Imams from England who were accompanied by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, the Archbishop of Westminster.
In India’s Villages Women Are A Solution, Not A Problem
by Moin Qazi
Women are the mainstays of small-scale agriculture, the farm labour force and day-to-day family subsistence. The biggest myth is that the rural woman is part of her land’s wealth. Yes, but only to the extent of generating it.
Razak Kottakkal: A Legend of ‘Light And Shadow’
by K M Seethi
For over three decades, Razak Kottakkal, the legendary photographer of Kerala, wielded an ‘apparatus of absorption,’ and left behind an extraordinary tradition of black and white magical reflexes. Razak portrayed great minds with ease, deploying ‘light and shadow’ in his alchemy of visual craft. As a person deeply involved in portrait making, his one and only concern was, as Cartier-Bresson feared, if he could reach the subject/object as creatively as possible.
The Reign Of ‘Humanity’
by Nivedita Dwivedi
But the day would dawn when we would witness that world again. That carefree world of ideas, of our debates, our discussions, our dissents, our inventions, a world where only love, respect, dignity, life and the ones called ‘Humans’ would reign
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